1st Edition

Researching education policy Ethical and methodological issues

Edited By David Halpin Copyright 1994
    242 Pages
    by Routledge

    242 Pages
    by Routledge

    The methodology researching of educational policy is the subject of this book. It takes a "behind the scenes" look at the conducting, the analysis and the interpretation of research carried out into educational policy issues revolving around the 1988 Education Reform Act.; The contributors draw on their project research experience to demonstrate the breadth of issues lionked with such policy research, and cover the gender and power balance between interviewer and interviewee, the difficulties resulting from different ideological stances of researchers and researched, and difficulties in finding links between research and policy.

    Part 1 Reforms, Research and Being Reflexive about Being Reflective, Barry Troyna; Part 2 Theory, Scholarship and Research into Education Policy; Part 3 Where We Are Now: Reflections on the Sociology of Education Policy, Charles D.Raab; Part 4 Applied Education Politics or Political Sociology of Education?: Contrasting Approaches to the Study of Recent Education Reform in England and Wales, Roger Dale; Part 5 Coming to Terms with Research: The Contract Business, May Pettigrew; Part 6 Scholarship and Sponsored Research: Contradiction, Continuum or Complementary Activity?, Robert G.Burgess; Part 7 The Ethics of Research into Education Policy; Part 8 The Constraints of Neutrality: The 1988 Education Reform Act and Feminist Research, Beverley Skeggs; Part 9 Political Commitrnent in the Study of the City Technology College, Kingshurst, Geoffrey Walford; Part 10 Researching inside the State: Issues in the Interpretation of Elite Interviews, Stephen J.Ball; Part 11 Sex, Lies and Audiotape: Interviewing the Education Policy Elite, JENNY OZGA, SHARON GEWIRTZ; Part 12 Methodological Perspectives on Research into Education Policy; Part 13 Ethnography, Policy Making and Practice in Education, Martyn Hammersley; Part 14 Why Didn’t You Use a Survey so You Could Generalize Your Findings?: Methodological Issues in a Multiple Site Case Study of School Governing Bodies after the 1988 Education Reform Act, >Rosemary Deem, >Kevin J.Brehony; Part 15 Students’ Secondary School Careers: Research in a Climate of ‘moving Perspectives’, >Gwen Wallace, >Jean Rudduck, >Susan Harris; Part 16 Researching Parents after the 1988 Education Reform Act, >Martin Hughes; Part 17 Practice and Prospects in Education Policy Research, David Halpin;

    Biography

    David Halpin, Barry Troyna