Multidisciplinary approaches to educational research : case studies from Europe and the developing world / / edited by Sadaf Rizvi

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (227 p.)
• Disciplina: 370.72
• Soggetto topico: Education - Research; Education - Research - Europe; Education - Research - Developing countries; Education - Social aspects
• Classificazione: EDU037000EDU040000EDU020000
• Altri autori: RizviSadaf <1973->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Multidisciplinary Approaches to Educational Research; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Educational Research: Case Studies from Europe and the Developing World; Part I: Research with Early Years and Primary School Children; 1. Photography, School Spaces and School Lives: Using Visual Methods in Schools to Map the Geographies of Children and Youth; 2. Reflections on Research with Children in Pakistan in a Mixed-Methods Study ; 3. "How Do You Write What We're Talking About in Our Minds?" Researching and Interpreting the Sense Young British Bangladeshi Children Make of Their Literacy Learning4. Drawing as a Methodological Tool for Exploring Children's Understanding About Right and Wrong at School: Experiences and Perspectives from a Pakistani Context; Part II: Research with Children and Young People in Secondary Schools; 5. Exploring the Experiences of South-Asian Adolescent Girls: How Well Do Semi-Structured Interviews 'Unveil' Complex Lives? ; 6. Collecting Primary-Level Quantitative Data: Experience from a Public and Private School Survey in Pakistan7. "We Want to Understand Their 'Virtual' World Better, So We Can Make Them Happy": Pakistani Children Use Participatory Action Research to Explore Their Disabled Siblings' Support Needs; Part III: Research with Teachers, Schools and Communities; 8. Teachers as Participants in Classroom Reform: Promise and Perils of Action Research; 9. A Focus on Interviewing: Constructing Identities of Male and Female Teachers ; 10. Studying Best Practices in Community Managed Education Programs in PakistanEpilogue: Bridging Research Paradigms, Disciplines and Cultures; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "This book provides an original perspective on a range of controversial issues in educational and social research through case studies of multi-disciplinary and mixed-method research involving children, teachers, schools and communities in Europe and the developing world. These case studies from researchers "across continents" and "across disciplines" explore a range of interesting issues, including the relevance of research approaches to very different national settings, and to the kinds of questions being asked; the barriers of language and culture between researcher and researched; articulating the thinking and feelings of very young children; the challenges of dealing with "partiality" of data; issues of identity, subjectivity and reflexivity; and transferring research approaches from one national setting to the problems posed in another"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Multidisciplinary approaches to educational research
• ISBN: 1-136-58385-8; 1-136-58386-6; 0-203-15690-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826156103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge research in education ; ; 67.