PLACE-BASED METHODS FOR RESEARCHING SCHOOLS

• Main Author: Thomson,Pat 1948- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London New York, NY Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2017
• Subjects: Education > Research > Methodology; Education > Social aspects > Research > Methodology; EDUCATION > Study Skills; EDUCATION > Research
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 Place-Based Research Methods in 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.