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Place-Based Methods for Researching Schools de Professor Pat Thomson

Place-Based Methods for Researching Schools: Bloomsbury Research Methods for Education

Autor Professor Pat Thomson, Professor Christine Hall
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 dec 2016

Bazându-ne pe resursele oferite de seria Bloomsbury Research Methods for Education, remarcăm în Place-Based Methods for Researching Schools o schimbare de paradigmă necesară în cercetarea educațională. În loc să trateze metodele de investigație ca instrumente izolate și decontextualizate, Professor Pat Thomson și Professor Christine Hall propun un model integrat care privește instituția de învățământ nu doar ca pe un spațiu administrativ, ci ca pe un „loc” definit prin relații sociale, geografie și istorie locală.

Subliniem rigoarea cu care este construită arhitectura cărții. Primele capitole ghidează cercetătorul prin procesul pragmatic de acces în instituție și explorare a vecinătății școlii, în timp ce secțiunile centrale, precum „Reading the School” și „Living with the School”, detaliază tehnici de observație și utilizarea perspectivelor multiple. Ne-a atras atenția în mod deosebit includerea unor metode împrumutate din domenii conexe, precum urbanismul și geografia, pentru a analiza cartierul și interacțiunile spațiale, oferind o profunzime pe care abordările statistice clasice o omit frecvent. Acoperă aceeași arie ca Multidisciplinary Approaches to Educational Research de Sadaf Rizvi, dar cu o abordare mai aplicată pe conceptul de spațiu și mai ancorată în etapele logice pe care un student le parcurge în teren.

Spre deosebire de manualele care se opresc la colectarea datelor, acest volum al editurii Bloomsbury Academic dedică spațiu generos analizei seturilor de date complexe și procesului de scriere. Stilul este precis, academic, dar infuzat cu recomandări practice derivate din experiența de pedagogi a autoarelor, facilitând tranziția de la teorie la practica etnografică.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781474242882
ISBN-10: 147424288X
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 25 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 138 x 214 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Bloomsbury Research Methods for Education

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Această lucrare este esențială pentru studenții de la facultățile de științe ale educației și sociologie care pregătesc proiecte de cercetare bazate pe școală. Cititorul câștigă un set complet de instrumente interdisciplinare — de la sociograme la cartografiere vizuală — care îi permit să înțeleagă școala ca un ecosistem viu. Este recomandată pentru rigoarea metodologică și pentru ghidarea pas cu pas în gestionarea relațiilor de teren și a analizei de date complexe.

Descriere

Schools are complex institutions. They do not easily reveal themselves to researchers who rely on only one or two methods. Understanding a school, its neighbourhood and its students requires a researcher with a more complex repertoire of verbal, statistical and visual research strategies.

Place-Based Methods for Researching Schools shows how multiple methods can be used together to research schools, rather than dealing with decontextualised methods, one by one. Taking a novel theoretical approach to the school as a 'place', the book offers grounded illustrations of schools as places from real case study and ethnographic research conducted in both Australia and the UK. A practical guide, this book explores the on-the-ground questions researchers are likely to face in the order they are likely to face them. The chapters not only look at data generation approaches, but also address analysis of the data and writing about the school, topics that are often ignored. Methods explored for use include those drawn from urban planning and geography to explore neighbourhoods, visual surveys, mapping, classroom observation, ethnographic observation, interviews, focus groups, sociograms and linguistic corpora.

Including research tips from the authors, case studies, a glossary and annotated further reading list, this book is essential reading for students and scholars approaching their research project.

Cuprins

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Series Editor's Preface
Glossary of Research Methods and Approaches

Introducing the book
1. Studying a School
2. Getting Into the School
3. Getting to Know the Neighbourhood
4. Reading the School
5. Living with the School
6. Multiple Perspectives on the School
7. Analysing Complex Data Sets
8. Writing the School

Appendix
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

The authors are generous with their suggested further reading and because of the geographical lens offered these are likely to give the reader references that many educational researchers will be unfamiliar with. The quality and depth of the approaches that the authors suggest make me particularly confident in the robustness of these qualitative data generation approaches. However, the authors do not shy away from the quantitative data that can be generated through national databases. A rich picture of one school can be generated if their advice about place-based research is followed. Overall, this book has much to be commended on and I highly recommend it to any researcher involved in school-based research.
Pat Thomson and Chris Hall's imaginative, informed and innovative methodology text book is a must for anyone, from novice to expert, studying any aspect of schools. This is a book to transform both your approach to research and your thinking about schools - and indeed their communities - with new ideas and practical illustrations.
Patricia Thomson and Christine Hall use the literature on space, time and place in combination with that on place-based research projects to provide a map for the field. They write with a deep understanding of a wide range of theory and a commitment to ethical research methods and practices. Their map covers the field of place-based research, offering a clear framework and the necessary know-how. Accessible, interesting and rigorous their work inspires an interest in schools as places, and in place-based methods for researching, understanding and representing them.
This book inspires me to do school research, and to do it well. It takes seriously the many entangled factors - people, places, structures, ideas, experiences, feelings - that make a school, demonstrating the 'specificity, particularity and complexity to the near-universal experience of being in school' and showing us what we might do with this as researchers. The book addresses a sophisticated reader who is able to make her/his own decisions and research plans, but still offers structured insights for thinking practically about how to research schools. It is also a compelling and pleasurable read. After this book, it will be difficult to think of school research that does not engage deeply with the place of a school.
This book is a very useful resource to a beginner school-based researcher. It provides useful advice on various practical aspects of conducting research in schools and outlines some theoretical and methodological foundations and approaches to conducting research with human participants.
This is an excellent student book suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in research in schools. Although the focus is on place based methods and there are appropriate and helpful articulations of place and space theory, this book usefully provides a number of practical approaches and a range of references for the reader to follow up. If the mark of a good book is that the reader is left wanting to find out more, this work succeeds (and it is my favourite book of the year!).