Ch. 1. Reforms, Research and Being Reflexive About Being Reflective / Barry Troyna -- pt. 1. Theory, Scholarship and Research into Education Policy. Ch. 2. Where We Are Now: Reflections on the Sociology of Education Policy / Charles D. Raab. Ch. 3. Applied Education Politics or Political Sociology of Education?: Contrasting Approaches to the Study of Recent Education Reform in England and Wales / Roger Dale. Ch. 4. Coming to Terms with Research: The Contract Business / May Pettigrew. Ch. 5. Scholarship and Sponsored Research: Contradiction, Continuum or Complementary Activity? / Robert G. Burgess -- pt. 2. The Ethics of Research into Education Policy. Ch. 6. The Constraints of Neutrality: The 1988 Education Reform Act and Feminist Research / Beverley Skeggs. Ch. 7. Political Commitment in the Study of the City Technology College, Kingshurst / Geoffrey Walford. Ch. 8. Researching Inside the State: Issues in the Interpretation of Elite Interviews / Stephen J. Ball.
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Ch. 9. Sex, Lies and Audiotape: Interviewing the Education Policy Elite / Jenny Ozga and Sharon Gewirtz -- pt. 3. Methodological Perspectives on Research into Education Policy. Ch. 10. Ethnography, Policy Making and Practice in Education / Martyn Hammersley. Ch. 11. Why Didn't You Use a Survey to Generalize Your Findings?: Methodological Issues in a Multiple Site Case Study of School Governing Bodies after the 1988 Education Reform Act / Rosemary Deem and Kevin J. Brehony. Ch. 12. Students' Secondary School Careers: Research in a Climate of 'Moving Perspectives' / Gwen Wallace, Jean Rudduck and Susan Harris. Ch. 13. Researching Parents after the 1988 Education Reform Act / Martin Hughes. Ch. 14. Practice and Prospects in Education Policy Research / David Halpin.
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The methodology researching of educational policy is the subject of this book. It takes a "behind the scenes" look at the conducting, the analysis and the interpretation of research carried out into educational policy issues revolving around the 1988 Education Reform Act.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Education and state-- Research-- Methodology.
Education and state-- Research-- Moral and ethical aspects.