Action research and postmodernism : congruence and critique / Tony Brown and Liz Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Tony, 1946-

Contributor:

Jones, Liz, 1950-

Series:

Conducting educational research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Action research in education.

Postmodernism and education.

Physical Description:

202 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 2001.

Contents:

1 Emancipation and postmodernism 3

2 Research and the development of practice 13

Part 1 The hermeneutic backdrop: narrating the researcher 31

3 Creating data in practitioner research 33

4 Transitions: issues of temporality and practitioner research 57

5 On identity 70

Part 2 The postmodern turn

deconstructing the nursery classroom 91

6 From emancipation to postmodernism: a nursery study 93

7 A tale of disturbance 105

8 Identity, power and resistance 116

9 Deconstructing the nursery classroom: that will undo nicely, but so what? 132

10 Transgressive agents: an optimistic possibility? 150

11 Critical pedagogy in a postmodern world 169.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-195) and index.

ISBN:

0335207626

0335207618

OCLC:

46793009