Historical research in educational settings / Gary McCulloch and William Richardson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCulloch, Gary.

Contributor:

McCulloch, Gary.

Richardson, William, 1956-

Series:

Doing qualitative research in educational settings

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--History--Research--Methodology.

Education.

History.

Research.

Methodology.

Physical Description:

xiii, 154 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia : Open University, 2000.

Summary:

This book explores how to set about historical research in education and offers a theoretical guide to the rationales and problems of the field as well as current opportunities for research. It also gives practical advice for getting started and for suitable research methods in different kinds of projects.

Contents:

Thinking historically 5

2 What the textbooks say

and what they don't 10

Research methods in education 11

Introductions to historical research 18

3 History or education? 27

The discipline of history 28

The field of education 34

The history of education 40

4 The challenge of the social sciences 52

Sociological imaginations 52

Education and the social order 57

The enlarging vision 68

5 Using published sources 79

Primary and secondary sources 79

Using secondary sources 81

Published primary documentary sources 85

Using published primary sources 91

6 Methodological issues 97

Unpublished primary sources 97

Visual sources 109

Use of quantitative source material 111

Oral sources 113

7 Designing and carrying out a research project 120

Problems and opportunities for study 121.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [132]-150) and index.

ISBN:

0335202551

0335202543

OCLC:

43706596