1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783826603321

Autore

Hitchcock Graham <1952, >

Titolo

Research and the teacher : a qualitative introduction to school-based research / / Graham Hitchcock and David Hughes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995

ISBN

1-134-85459-5

1-134-85460-9

0-585-45241-5

1-280-10922-X

0-203-42460-3

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HughesDavid <1938 Aug. 12->

Disciplina

370/.7/8

Soggetti

Education - Research

Interaction analysis in education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Research approaches; Access, ethics and objectivity: the challenge for school-based research; Gender, research and education; Designing, planning and evaluating research; Introduction to Part II; Ethnography fieldwork and the teacher; Interviewing, asking questions and conversations; Biographies: the life history interview; Using documents; Interaction in schools and classrooms; Space and interaction in schools and classrooms; Introduction to Part III; Qualitative data analysis; The case study

Writing up: conventions, narratives and storiesReferences; Author index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

This highly successful introductory text has been updated in the light of recent legislative changes in education - such as the introduction of teacher appraisal and the move towards school-based training and research.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910815592003321

Titolo

Anthropology off the shelf : anthropologists on writing / / edited by Alisse Waterston and Maria D. Vesperi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA ; ; Chichester, West Sussex, : Blackwell, 2009

ISBN

9786612116544

9781282116542

1282116541

9781444308822

1444308823

9781444308839

1444308831

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WaterstonAlisse <1951->

VesperiMaria D

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Ethnology - Authorship

Literature and anthropology

Anthropologists - Attitudes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Anthropology off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; 1: Introduction: The Writer in the Anthropologist; Part I: Conceptions; 2: Speaking Truth to Power with Books; 3: Remember When Writing Was Fun? Why Academics Should Go On a Low Syllable, Active Voice Diet; 4: The Bard; 5: Saggin' and Braggin'; 6: Stories for Readers: A Few Observations from Outside the Academy; Part II: Creations; 7: Writing Poverty, Drawing Readers: Stories in Love, Sorrow and Rage

8: Write-ous Indignation: Black Girls, Dilemmas of Cultural Domination and the Struggle to Speak the Skin We Are In9: Writing Truth to Power: Racism as Statecraft; 10: Remembering Octavia; 11: Believing in Anthropology as Literature; Part III: Receptions; 12: Walking in Zora's Shoes or "Seek[ing] Out de Inside Meanin' of Words": The Intersections of Anthropology, Ethnography, Identity, and Writing; 13: Off the Shelf



and into Oblivion?; 14: "Don't Use Your Data as a Pillow"; 15: The Trope of the Pith Helmet: America's Anthropology, Anthropology's America; 16: The Book that Wrote Me

17: Fighting Words18: Taking Chances; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Anthropology off the Shelf, leading anthropologists reflect on the craft of writing and the passions that fuel their desire to write books.First of its kind volume in anthropology in which prominent anthropologists and 3 respected professionals outside the discipline follow the tradition of the "writers on writing" genre to reflect on all aspects of the writing processContributors are high-profile in anthropology and many have a strong presence outside the field, in popular cultureUnique in its format: short essays, revealing and straightforward in content and writing