Education Policy Research
Subtitle: design and practice at a time of rapid reform
By: edited by Helen M. Gunter, Dave Hall and Colin Mills
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781472514394; 9781472509093; 9781472512789; 9781472512253
Subjects: Education; Research; Education and state; Educational change; EDUCATION / Research
Description: "In Education Policy Research, Helen M. Gunter, David Hall and Colin Mills bring together contributions from a range of researchers, academics and practitioners. Each chapter draws on critical theoretical perspectives and showcases innovative research projects within educational settings to understand the current changes in schools, schooling and education, to explore critical questions. The varied accounts demonstrate the importance of partnerships between schools and higher education, and of putting educational research into context, specifically charting the ways in which schools and schooling have been reformed through government interventions. Education Policy Research presents new research findings on the realities of how educational practice can be understood and explained, so enabling researchers to take a reflexive stance towards their own work. The editors and contributors take seriously the need to rethink their data and consider the contribution of research dispositions and practices to ongoing change and development. At the same time, the chapters give recognition to what research and researchers can and cannot do, contributing to the ongoing debates about the value of - and the urgent ongoing need for - social science research"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-189) and index.