Research Methods in EducationRoutledge, 2007 - 638 pages This fully updated sixth edition of the international bestseller Research Methods in Education covers the whole range of methods currently employed by educational research at all stages. It is divided into five main parts: the context of educational research; planning educational research; styles of educational research; strategies for data collection and researching; and data analysis. The book also contains references to a comprehensive dedicated website of accompanying materials. The sixth edition includes new material on:
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... Critical theory and critical educational research Positivist and interpretive paradigms are essen- tially concerned with understanding phenomena through two different lenses . Positivism strives for objectivity , measurability ...
... critical theory in Marxism , thus , is not difficult to discern . For critical theorists , researchers can no longer claim neutrality and ideological or political innocence . Critical theory and critical educational research , then ...
... critical theory , because it has a practical intent to transform and empower , can – and should be examined and perhaps tested empirically . For example , critical theory claims to be empowering ; that is a testable proposition . Indeed ...
Contents
Introduction | 5 |
The assumptions and nature | 11 |
Part 2 | 63 |
Copyright | |
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