Educational research :
Piper, Heather.
Educational research : difference and diversity / edited by Heather Piper and Ian Stronach. - Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2004. - viii, 189 p. ; 24 cm. - Cardiff papers in qualitative research .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS: Series editors' introduction / Paul Atkinson, Amanda Coffey and Sara Delamont -- 1. A methodological toolkit for feminist research : analytical reflexivity, accountable knowledge, moral epistemology and being 'a child of our time' / Liz Stanley -- 2. Hermeneutics : a poetics of inquiry versus a methodology for research / Thomas A. Schwandt -- 3. Learning to live with relativism / John K. Smith -- 4. Get real! : a defence of realism / Martyn Hammersley - - 5. Confessions of a ragpicker / Sara Delamont -- 6. Women, writing, theory : 'a contradiction in terms'? / Maggie MacLure -- 7. Blurring boundaries : embodying cyborg subjectivity and methodology / Annette Gough -- 8. Re-performing crises of representation / Ian Stronach, Heather Piper and John Piper -- 9. Read intertextually, write an essay, make a rhizome : performing narrative experiments in educational inquiry / Noel Gough -- 10. Doing difference : beyond here there be monsters / Heather Piper and Ian Stronach.
In the first chapter of this collection, Liz Stanley calls for a more sympathetic and compassionate approach to educational research. Other essays question current methodologies and approaches reflecting the remit of this Cardiff series.
0754633551 (alk. paper)
2003063717
Education--Research--Philosophy.
Education--Research--Social aspects.
Educational research : difference and diversity / edited by Heather Piper and Ian Stronach. - Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2004. - viii, 189 p. ; 24 cm. - Cardiff papers in qualitative research .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS: Series editors' introduction / Paul Atkinson, Amanda Coffey and Sara Delamont -- 1. A methodological toolkit for feminist research : analytical reflexivity, accountable knowledge, moral epistemology and being 'a child of our time' / Liz Stanley -- 2. Hermeneutics : a poetics of inquiry versus a methodology for research / Thomas A. Schwandt -- 3. Learning to live with relativism / John K. Smith -- 4. Get real! : a defence of realism / Martyn Hammersley - - 5. Confessions of a ragpicker / Sara Delamont -- 6. Women, writing, theory : 'a contradiction in terms'? / Maggie MacLure -- 7. Blurring boundaries : embodying cyborg subjectivity and methodology / Annette Gough -- 8. Re-performing crises of representation / Ian Stronach, Heather Piper and John Piper -- 9. Read intertextually, write an essay, make a rhizome : performing narrative experiments in educational inquiry / Noel Gough -- 10. Doing difference : beyond here there be monsters / Heather Piper and Ian Stronach.
In the first chapter of this collection, Liz Stanley calls for a more sympathetic and compassionate approach to educational research. Other essays question current methodologies and approaches reflecting the remit of this Cardiff series.
0754633551 (alk. paper)
2003063717
Education--Research--Philosophy.
Education--Research--Social aspects.