Doing Research About Education

This book is beyond the level of practical methodology of which there are numerous texts, and should take our students thinking beyond the basic concepts. - Denny Mallows, Ripon and York St John University'The value of this book (and the others in the series) is both for relatively inexperienced researcher and also for the experienced and senior researchers in different ways. For the former, it contains warnings of pitfalls and suggests how to avoid them. The experienced researcher can get more from it than this.' John Nisbet, Education in the North

• 1. Introduction: research accounts count 2. Researching the pastoral and the academic: an ethnographic exploration of Bernstein's sociology of the curriculum 3. Are you a girl, or are you a teacher? Some questions about researching gender and sexuality in a primary school 4. Critical moments in the Creative Teaching research 5. Developing the Identity and Learning Programme: principles and pragmatism in a longitudinal ethnography of pupil careers 6. Using ethnographic methods in a study of students' secondary school and post-school careers 7. More than the sum of its parts? Coordinating the ESRC research programme on Innovation and Change in Education 8. Climbing an educational mountain: conducting the International School Effectiveness Research Project (ISERP) 9. The making of men: theorizing methodology in uncertain times 10. The profession of a methodological purist? 11. The director's tale: developing teams and themes in a research centre 12. The last blue mountain? Doing educational research in a contract culture 13. Compulsive writing behaviour: getting it published