TY  - BOOK
AU  - Piper, Heather.
AU  - Piper,Heather
AU  - Stronach,Ian
TI  - Educational research: difference and diversity / edited by Heather Piper and Ian Stronach
SN  - 0754633551 (alk. paper)
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Aldershot, Hants, England, Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Education
KW  - Research
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - 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
N2  - 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.
ER  -