Researching The Powerful In Education (Paperback)

In this text, leading analysts in education and policy provide an overview of methods for researching those in positions of power. Over the past decade, there has been a dramatic increase in research studies on the powerful, bringing new understanding of the policy-making and policy-implementation process. This is the first book to bring together reflexive accounts of doing research on the powerful in education, and it focuses on issues with broad relevance to social scientists. The contributors have conducted studies of major significance on both sides of the Atlantic. Here they describe the range of methods applied to a diversity of research topics involving the powerful, showing how the particular difficulties involved in this type of research can be overcome. The book throws considerable light on the problems of access, the use of dual interviewers, encouraging interviewees to be forthcoming, interpreting responses, and the analysis and publication of final reports. It takes account of ethical and political problems, the role of theory and the impact of feminist perspectives on methods. Postgraduate and professional researchers should benefit from these illuminating insights an

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 1994
First published:	1994
Editors:	Geoffrey Walford
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-85728-134-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > Freedom of information & freedom of speech
LSN:	1-85728-134-9
Barcode:	9781857281347

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