Berry Mayall [and others] ; with a foreword by Ann Oakley.
Washington :
Falmer Press,
1996.
1 online resource (xvii, 273 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-265) and index.
Cover -- Qualitative Studies Series -- The Compleat Observer? -- Contents -- 1 Problems and Pitfalls -- Foreground and Background -- Even Though We Aren't Reading for Meaning! -- Postscript -- 2 'You Are Here!' -- The Split in Social Sciences: Positivism and Naturalism -- Educational Ethnography -- 3 'Inside Out or Outside In?' -- The Key to Entry -- Personal Preparation -- Postscript -- 4 The Ethics of Entry -- Covert Research -- Gamekeeper Turning Poacher -- Proxy Observation -- Postscript -- 5 Validity and Invalidity Benefits -- Validity and Pragmatism -- Validity and Naturalistic Enquiry -- Postscript -- 6 Checking It Out -- The Memory of the Video of the Methodology of the Research? -- The Galton Position? -- The Elliott Position? -- Why can checklists be Good Things? -- Observation Counts -- Of Sociograms -- Stages of observation -- Postscript -- 7 Seeing Through The Interview -- The Case for Tape Recording -- Weakness of Tape Recording -- The Case for Note Taking -- Weaknesses in Note Taking -- Generating, Processing and Reporting Interview Data: Two Profiles -- Postscript -- 8 Research in the Technological Sense -- Electronic Ears -- Electronic Eyes -- 'Make Sure It's on the Screen, can be Heard and can be Seen' -- The Kingdom of the Blind -- Under the Surface -- Two-faced Communication -- 9 Seven Types of Creativity: Observation And Data Analysis -- Imagination and Codification -- Research for Action -- Creative Analysis of Observational Data -- Seven Types of Creativity in Data Analysis -- Postscript -- 10 Closely Observed Training -- Conceptual Framework for Observation Workshops -- An Example of Training for Observation -- 11 Administering Poison: Reporting Observations -- Postscript -- 12 Tales of Future Past -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Children's health in primary schools.
Education and state-- Great Britain.
Educational surveys-- Great Britain.
Elementary school environment-- Great Britain, Case studies.
School children-- Health and hygiene-- Great Britain, Case studies.