Multidisciplinary Approaches to Educational Research: Case Studies from Europe and the Developing World

ISBN-13: 9780415744607 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 226 str.

Sadaf Rizvi

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Foreword  Richard Pring.  Acknowledgments.  Introduction: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Educational Research: Case Studies from Europe and the Developing World  Sadaf Rizvi  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  John Barker and Fiona Smith  2. Reflections on Research with Children in Pakistan in a Mixed Methods Study  Almina Pardhan  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 Learning  Pauline Macaulay  4. Drawing as a Methodological Tool for Exploring Children’s Understanding About Right and Wrong at School: Experiences and Perspectives from a Pakistani Context  Nilofar Vazir  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?  Geeta Ludhra  6. Collecting Primary-Level Quantitative Data: Experience from a Public and Private School Survey in Pakistan  Monazza Aslam  7. "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  Debora Kramer-Roy  Part III: Research with Teachers, Their Schools and Communities  8. Teachers as Participants in Classroom Reform: Promise and Perils of Action Research  Anjum Halai  9. A Focus on Interviewing: Constructing Identities of Male and Female Teachers  Deborah Jones  10. Studying Best Practices in Community Managed Education Programs in Pakistan  Sadaf Rizvi  Epilogue: Bridging Research Paradigms, Disciplines and Cultures  Michael Crossley

O autorze

Sadaf Rizvi is a Research Officer in the Faculty of Policy and Society at the Institute of Education, University of London.