Education Policy Research - Design and Practice at a Time of Rapid Reform

In Education Policy Research , Helen M. Gunter, David Hall and Colin Mills bring together contributions from a range of researchers, academics and practitioners. Each chapter draws on critical theoretical perspectives and showcases innovative research projects within educational settings to understand the current changes in schools, schooling and education, to explore critical questions. The varied accounts demonstrate the importance of partnerships between schools and higher education, and of putting educational research into context, specifically charting the ways in which schools and schooling have been reformed through government interventions. Education Policy Research presents new research findings on the realities of how educational practice can be understood and explained, so enabling researchers to take a reflexive stance towards their own work. The editors and contributors take seriously the need to rethink their data and consider the contribution of research dispositions and practices to ongoing change and development. At the same time, the chapters give recognition to what research and researchers can and cannot do, contributing to the ongoing debates about the value of - and the urgent ongoing need for - social science research.>

About the author

Helen M. Gunter is Professor Emerita at the University of Manchester, UK, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.Dave Hall is Professor of Education Policy and Practice at The Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester, UK.Colin Mills is a Senior Teaching Fellow at The Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Helen M Gunter, Gunter Helen M, David Hall, Colin Mills
• Assisted by: Helen M. Gunter (Editor), Dave Hall (Editor), David Hall (Editor), Colin Mills (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.10.2014
• EAN: 9781472509093
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-0909-3
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Bloomsbury Research Methods; Bloomsbury Research Methods
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Bildungsstrategien und -politik, Pädagogik: Theorie und Philosophie