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Researching education : data, methods and theory in educational enquiry / David Scott and Robin Usher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scott, David, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Research.
- Education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (214 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, c2011.
- Summary:
- Researching Education looks at the theory and practice of researching education and examines the philosophical, historical, political and social contexts of research and the implications of these for the collection and analysis of data. Scott and Usher argue that while power is ever present in the construction of research texts, this is inevitable as research imposes a closure of the world through representations and thus is always and inevitably involved with and implicated in the operation of power. The authors provide a theoretical framework against previously compiled research can be judg
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Knowledge and philosophy
- pt. 2. Strategies and methods
- pt. 3. Themes and issues.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-94796-6
- 9786612947964
- 1-4411-5312-8
- OCLC:
- 699475243
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