This volume is a study of the theory and practice of researching education. It examines the philosophical, historical, political and social contexts of researching and the implications of these for the collection and analysis of data. The authors argue that power is ever present in the construction of research texts and this is inevitable, as research imposes a closure of the world through representation and thus is always involved with and implicated in the operation of power. The book addresses such fundamental questions as: "What is legitimate knowledge?", "What is the relationship between the collection and analysis of data?" and "How does the researcher's presence in the field affect his or her data?". Divided into three sections, the book reviews the philosophy of research; the strategies and methods of research; and the issues involved in research. The authors present the reader with a balance of theory and practice, providing case studies, examples and tables to support and illustrate their arguments.

Researching Education: Data, Methods and Theory in Educational Enquiry (Institute of Education)

SCOTT, DAVID

Usher, Robin

Continuum International Publishing Group

Adult education as theory, practice, and research: The captive triangle (Radical forum on adult education series)

Examines the reasons for the lack of growth in adult education as a field of practice and puts forward more productive ways of considering the relationships between theory, research and practice. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of adult education, programme organizers, curriculum developers, researchers.

Adult Education As Theory, Practice, and Research: The Captive Triangle (Radical Forum on Adult Education Series)

Bryant, Ian

Routledge& Kegan Paul

In this book, the authors explore and clarify the nature of postmodernism and provide a detailed introduction to key writers in the field such as Lacan Derrida Foucault Lyotard They examine the impact of this thinking upon contemporary theory and practice of education, concentrating particularly upon how postmodernist ideas challenge existing concepts, structures and hierarchies.

Postmodernism and Education: Different Voices, Different Worlds

Politics & Social Sciences

Edwards, Richard

Social Sciences

Routledge

In this book, the authors explore and clarify the nature of postmodernism and provide a detailed introduction to key writers in the field such as Lacan Derrida Foucault Lyotard They examine the impact of this thinking upon contemporary theory and practice of education, concentrating particularly upon how postmodernist ideas challenge existing concepts, structures and hierarchies.

Postmodernism and Education: Different Voices, Different Worlds (One World Archaeology; 25)

Adult Education and the Postmodern Challenge: Learning Beyond the Limits

This book offers some suggestions as to ways forward from this dilemma. Drawing on the new intellectual frameworks of critical pedagogy, feminism and postmodernism and their impact upon educational theory, practice and research, the book focuses on the changing contexts of adult education. By building on the notion of going beyond the limits of certain current adult education orthodoxies, the authors try to provide alternatives for practice. The final three chapters deal with research, focusing on a critical macro-analysis of mainstream paradigms, a review of alternative approaches, and a more micro-analysis centering on the role of the socially-located self in the research process.

Education & Teaching

Johnston, Rennie

Higher & Continuing Education

This book offers some suggestions as to ways forward from this dilemma. Drawing on the new intellectual frameworks of critical pedagogy, feminism and postmodernism and their impact upon educational theory, practice and research, the book focuses on the changing contexts of adult education. By building on the notion of going beyond the limits of certain current adult education orthodoxies, the authors try to provide alternatives for practice. The final three chapters deal with research, focusing on a critical macro-analysis of mainstream paradigms, a review of alternative approaches, and a more micro-analysis centering on the role of the socially-located self in the research process.

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Globalisation & Pedagogy: Space, Place and Identity

Educational policy is often dismissed as simply rhetoric and a collection of half truths. However, this is to underestimate the power of rhetoric and the ways in which rhetorical strategies are integral to persuasive acts. Through a series of illustrative chapters, this book argues that rather than something to be dismissed, rhetorical analysis offers a rich and deep arena in which to explore and examine educational issues and practices. It adopts an original stance in relation to contemporary debates and will make a significant contribution to educational debates in elucidating and illustrating the pervasiveness of persuasive strategies in educational practices.Rhetoric and Educational Discourse is a useful resource for postgraduate and research students in education and applied linguistics. The book will also be of interest to academics and researchers in these fields of study and those interested in discursive approaches to research and scholarship.

Rhetoric and Educational Discourse: Persuasive Texts

Reference

Solomon, Nicky

Nicoll, Katherine

Words, Language & Grammar

Globalisation & pedagogy

With different pedagogic practices come different ways of examining them and fresh understandings of their implications and assumptions. It is the examination of these changes and developments that is the subject of this book. The authors examine a number of questions posed by the rapid march of globalisation, incuding:  What is the role of the teacher, and how do we teach in the context of globalisation? What curriculum is appropriate when people and ideas become more mobile? How do the technologies of the internet and mobile phone impact upon what is learnt and by whom? The second edition of this important book has been fully updated and extended to take account of developments in technology, pedagogy and practice, in particular the growth of distance and e-learning.

Globalisation & Pedagogy

Adult Education as Theory, Practice and Research

The authors argue that the aim of research should be to improve practice through a process of critical reflection. Focusing clearly on the everyday concerns and problems of practitioners, they emphasize the importance of practical knowledge. Their definition of ‘practice’ is wide, and includes the generation of theory and the doing of research as well as front-line teaching. They show how notions of ‘adult learning’ and ‘the adult learner’ have been constituted mainly through theory and research in psychology and sociology, and examine action research as a mode of understanding. They conclude by looking at the curriculum implications for the teaching of adult education as reflective practice.

Adult Education as Theory, Practice and Research: The Captive Triangle

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Researching Education: Data, Methods and Theory in Educational Enquiry (Institute of Education)

Adult Education As Theory, Practice, and Research: The Captive Triangle (Radical Forum on Adult Education Series)

Postmodernism and Education: Different Voices, Different Worlds

Postmodernism and Education: Different Voices, Different Worlds (One World Archaeology; 25)

Adult Education and the Postmodern Challenge: Learning Beyond the Limits

Adult Education and the Postmodern Challenge: Learning Beyond the Limits

Globalisation & Pedagogy: Space, Place and Identity

Rhetoric and Educational Discourse: Persuasive Texts

Globalisation & Pedagogy

Adult Education as Theory, Practice and Research: The Captive Triangle