Educational Research

This book focuses on ways in which small scale research studies arising from issues of practice, such as those undertaken by post-graduate researchers and doctoral students, are conceptualised, theorised and implemented using different methodological approaches and research frameworks. The three edi..

Negotiating Ethical Challenges in Youth Research brings together contributors from across the world to explore real-life ethical dilemmas faced by researchers working with young people in a range of social science disciplines...

Negotiating Ethical Challenges in Youth Research brings together contributors from across the world to explore real-life ethical dilemmas faced by researchers working with young people in a range of social science disciplines...

Neoliberalism is a dominant ideology shaping educational and environmental contexts. In this collection, international contributors examine how neoliberal ideas and processes shape environmental education across a variety of contexts from urban gardens and environmental science classrooms to prisons..

A complete theoretical examination of the principles of this growing form of research, complemented with a full and detailed literature review of the field...

This book sketches possible alternatives for advancing scholarship in educational leadership. Engaging epistemology, ontology, and methodology, the volume evokes the message that there is more than one way to advance knowledge. It was originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy..

New Directions in Educational Leadership Theory sketches possible alternatives for advancing scholarship in educational leadership. Engaging epistemology, ontology, and methodology, the volume evokes the message that there is more than one way to advance knowledge. The approaches adopted across this..

Published in 1984, this volume presents methodologies for studying the ongoing psychological processes that occur as a person reads a text, as well as discussing the major findings that these methodologies have produced, to provide a handbook of reading comprehension research techniques. _x005F_x000..

Published in 1993, this book explores the rights that parents have been given over their children’s schooling, how they affect traditional notions of home-school partnerships, and the effect on schools. It will appeal to those interested in home-school relations, in educational governance, and in co..

Drawing on educational research, social and cultural theory, and contemporary feminist thought, this book interrogates the constraint and subordination which define the formation of young women’s everyday subjectivities and identities. In exploring how girls and young women respond to increasing exp..

In 1972 the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children formulated a programme promoting philosophy in schools, based on an open community of inquiry. This book recounts details of the successes and difficulties in implementing this model. This book was originally published as a special..

In 1972 the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children formulated a programme promoting philosophy in schools, based on an open community of inquiry. This book recounts details of the successes and difficulties in implementing this model over the last thirty six years, from teachers an..