A Companion to Research in Education

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Reid, Alan D. (Editor), Hart, E. Paul (Editor), Peters, Michael A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Education.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Social sciences.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Sociology of Education.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Education, general.; Social Sciences, general.

  This volume offers a unique commentary on the diverse ways that educational inquiry is conceived, designed and critiqued. An international team of scholars examines cross-cutting themes of how research in education is conceptualised, characterised, contextualised, legitimated and represented. Cont...

Table of Contents:

• 1. PART I: CONCEPTUALISING RESEARCH IN EDUCATION
• 2. PART II: CHARACTERISING RESEARCH IN EDUCATION
• 3. PART III: CONTEXTUALISING RESEARCH IN EDUCATION
• 4. PART IV: LEGITIMATING RESEARCH IN EDUCATION
• 5. PART V: REPRESENTING RESEARCH IN EDUCATION.