What does Good Education Research Look Like?

This book explains the debates around education research: Is it high quality? Is it scientific enough? Is it useful? It shows how research in education must meet different demands in different places, times, and conditions. An indispensable companion to textbooks on research methodology, and a clear and provocative argument about the banalities and messiness in which educational researchers must operate.

Education & Teaching

Yates, Lyn

Schools & Teaching

Open University Press

This book explains and critically examines some key debates about the quality and value of education research, and shows how it must meet different demands in different places, times and conditions. A major part of the book provides detailed analyses and guidance to different areas in which education research is judged: from academic theses to the press: from highest level competition for prestigious grants to collaborative work with practitioners.

Literary Knowing and the Making of English Teachers: The Role of Literature in Shaping English Teachers’ Professional Knowledge and Identities

At a time when knowledge is being 're-valued' as central to curriculum concerns, subject English is being called to account. Literary Knowing and the Making of English Teachers puts long-standing debates about knowledge and knowing in English in dialogue with an investigation of how English teachers are made in the 21st century. This book explores, for the first time, the role of literature in shaping English teachers' professional knowledge and identities by examining the impacts, in particular, of their own school teaching in their 'making'. The voices of early career English teachers feature throughout the work, in a series of vignettes providing reflective accounts of their professional learning. The authors bring a range of disciplinary expertise and standpoints to explore the complexity of knowledge and knowing in English. They ask: How do English teachers negotiate competing curriculum demands? How do they understand literary knowledge in a neoliberal context? What is core English knowledge for students, and what role should literature play in the contemporary curriculum? Drawing on a major longitudinal research project, they bring to light what English teachers see as central to their work, the ways they connect teaching with their disciplinary training, and how their understandings of literary practice are contested and reimagined in the classroom. This innovative work is essential reading for scholars and postgraduate students in the fields of teacher education, English education, literary studies and curriculum studies.

Mead, Philip

Doecke, Brenton

McLean Davies, Larissa

Sawyer, Wayne

Routledge

Reconstructing the Lifelong Learner

How is adult learning used to produce personal, organisational and social change?This interesting examination of adult learning for change illustrates through diverse case studies and theoretical perspectives that personal change is inextricably linked to broader organisational and social change. The authors explore how theorising education as a vehicle for self-change is relevant to the practices of educators, learning specialists and others concerned with promoting learning for change.The book examines the relationship between pedagogy, identity and change, and illustrates this through a range of case studies focusing on the following:* Self-help books* Work-based learning* Corporate culture training* AIDS education* Gender education* Sex offender education.A concluding chapter discusses how writing an academic text is itself a pedagogical practice contributing to the identities of authors. This unique text will be of interest to students of education, sociology, cultural studies and change management as well as teachers, educators and professionals involved in lifelong learning or change management in any way.

Reconstructing the Lifelong Learner: Pedagogy and Identity in Individual, Organisational and Social Change

Tennant, Mark

Rhodes, Carl

Chappell, Clive

Solomon, Nicky

Higher & Continuing Education

Making Modern Lives: Subjectivity, Schooling, And Social Change (Suny Series, Power, Social Identity, And Education)

Examines the effects of schooling on young people’s values, choices, and identities. Making Modern Lives looks at how young people shape their lives as they move through their secondary school years and into the world beyond. It explores how they develop dispositions, attitudes, identities, and orientations in modern society. Based on an eight-year study consisting of more than 350 in-depth interviews with young Australians from diverse backgrounds, the book reveals the effects of schooling and of local school cultures on young people’s choices, future plans, political values, friendships, and attitudes toward school, work, and sense of self. Making Modern Lives uncovers who young people are today, what type of identities and inequalities are being formed and reformed, and what processes and politics are at work in relation to gender, class, race, and the framing of vocational futures.

McLeod, Julie

State Univ of New York Pr

Examines the effects of schooling on young people’s values, choices, and identities. Making Modern Lives looks at how young people shape their lives as they move through their secondary school years and into the world beyond. It explores how they develop dispositions, attitudes, identities, and orientations in modern society. Based on an eight-year study consisting of more than 350 in-depth interviews with young Australians from diverse backgrounds, the book reveals the effects of schooling and of local school cultures on young people’s choices, future plans, political values, friendships, and attitudes toward school, work, and sense of self. Making Modern Lives uncovers who young people are today, what type of identities and inequalities are being formed and reformed, and what processes and politics are at work in relation to gender, class, race, and the framing of vocational futures.

Review of research on the problems facing girls at school, including language and sexism, classroom dynamics and the debate about the benefits of single-sex or coeducational schooling. Emphasises Australian research. Of interest to educators and parents. Includes bibliography and index. The author is an academic at Latrobe University School of Education.

The Education of Girls

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Australian Council for Educational

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What does Good Education Research Look Like?

What does Good Education Research Look Like?

Literary Knowing and the Making of English Teachers: The Role of Literature in Shaping English Teachers’ Professional Knowledge and Identities

Reconstructing the Lifelong Learner: Pedagogy and Identity in Individual, Organisational and Social Change

Making Modern Lives: Subjectivity, Schooling, And Social Change (Suny Series, Power, Social Identity, And Education)

Making Modern Lives: Subjectivity, Schooling, And Social Change (Suny Series, Power, Social Identity, And Education)

The Education of Girls