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Historical Research in Educational Settings (Doing Qualitative Research in Educational Settings) - Hardcover
* What is historical research in education?
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This book explores how to set about historical research in education. The first general guide of its kind for fifty years, the book locates this field in relation to changes in educational research, historical research, and a wide range of social sciences. It offers a theoretical guide to the rationales and problems of the field as well as to current opportunities for research. It also gives practical advice for getting started and for suitable research methods in different kinds of projects, and in doing so draws critically on extensive international literature. It includes detailed case studies on the following topics in historical research: Curriculum and Classrooms, Foucauldian Interpretations, the 'Alternative Road', Literacy in the Nineteenth Century, and the University History Curriculum.
* How can researchers get started in this area?
* Why does this field offer a common project for historians, educationists, and researchers across the social sciences?
This book explores how to set about historical research in education. The first general guide of its kind for fifty years, the book locates this field in relation to changes in educational research, historical research, and a wide range of social sciences. It offers a theoretical guide to the rationales and problems of the field as well as to current opportunities for research. It also gives practical advice for getting started and for suitable research methods in different kinds of projects, and in doing so draws critically on extensive international literature. It includes detailed case studies on the following topics in historical research: Curriculum and Classrooms, Foucauldian Interpretations, the 'Alternative Road', Literacy in the Nineteenth Century, and the University History Curriculum.
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.."."the clear and distinct style of writing makes this book a good companion in the discussion of the history of education, which is useful for the student as well as for the experienced researcher inside and outside the history of education."" - Heinz-Elmar Tenorth
""I Shall put this valuable study into the hands of any of my students writing on historical topics in education, since it is an intelligent, scholarly and eminently sensible introduction to the kind of methodological issues it is actually "helpful" to address" - David Phillips
,,"."the clear and distinct style of writing makes this book a good companion in the discussion of the history of education, which is useful for the student as well as for the experienced researcher inside and outside the history of education."" - Heinz-Elmar Tenorth
""This is a serious, successful contribution to the study of how history is to be written by those studying education.
Synopsis:
""I Shall put this valuable study into the hands of any of my students writing on historical topics in education, since it is an intelligent, scholarly and eminently sensible introduction to the kind of methodological issues it is actually "helpful" to address" - David Phillips
,,"."the clear and distinct style of writing makes this book a good companion in the discussion of the history of education, which is useful for the student as well as for the experienced researcher inside and outside the history of education."" - Heinz-Elmar Tenorth
""This is a serious, successful contribution to the study of how history is to be written by those studying education.
The book should be a recommended text. Indeed, anyone, whatever his or her experience, contemplating a monograph, could usefully have it to hand."" - John Wyatt
This work explores how to set about historical research in education. It locates this field in relation to changes in educational research, historical research, and a range of social sciences. It offers a theoretical guide to the rationales and problems of the field as well as to current opportunities for research. It also gives practical advice for getting started and for suitable research methods in different kinds of projects, and in doing so draws critically on international literature. It includes detailed case studies on the following topics in historical research: curriculum and classrooms, Foucauldian interpretations, the "Alternative Road", literacy in the nineteenth century, and the university history curriculum.
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- PublisherOpen University Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0335202551
- ISBN 13 9780335202553
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages176
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