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Researching the powerful in education
- Title
- Researching the powerful in education / edited by Geoffrey Walford.
- Publication
- London ; [Bristol, Pa.] : UCL Press, 1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Walford, Geoffrey.
- Description
- xi, 239 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Educationalists offer an overview of methods for researching those in positions of power. They focus on key issues with broad relevance to social scientists such as access, interviewing, data restrictions, ethical dilemmas and the role of theory.
- Series Statement
- Social research today
- Uniform Title
- Social research today (Routledge (Firm))
- Subject
- Education > Research
- Elite (Social sciences) > Research > Methodology. > Great Britain
- Elite (Social sciences) > Research > Great Britain
- Educational leadership > Research
- Elite (Social sciences) > Research
- Educational leadership > Research
- Education > Research
- Elite (Social sciences) > Research > Methodology
- Bildungsforschung
- Bildungspolitik
- Bildungswesen
- Elite
- Forschung
- Führungskraft
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Onderwijsbeleid
- Macht
- Elites
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.A new focus on the powerful / Geoffrey Walford -- 2.Researching Thatcherite education policy / Tony Edwards / Geoff Whitty -- 3.Ministers and mandarins: educational research in elite settings / John Fitz / David Halpin -- 4.The Lord's will be done: interviewing the powerful in education / J. Daniel McHugh -- 5.Researching the powerful in education and elsewhere / Maurice Kogan -- 6.Ethics and power in a study of pressure group politics / Geoffrey Walford -- 7.Political interviews and the politics of interviewing / Stephen J. Ball -- 8.The power discourse: elite narratives and educational policy formation / Peter W. Cookson, Jr. -- 9.A feminist approach to researching the powerful in education / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson -- 10.Researching the locally powerful: a study of school governance / Rosemary Deem -- 11.Research perspectives on the World Bank / Phillip W. Jones -- 12.Interviewing the education policy elite / Jenny Ozga / Sharon Gewirtz -- 13.Writing school history as a former participant: problems in writing the history of an elite school / Susan F. Semel -- 14.Reflections on researching the powerful / Geoffrey Walford.
- ISBN
- 1857281330
- 9781857281330
- 1857281349
- 9781857281347
- LCCN
- 94042572
- OCLC
- ocm31519877
- 31519877
- SCSB-2067158
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library