Place-Based Methods for Researching Schools

Place-Based Methods for Researching Schools

Place-Based Methods for Researching Schools

Place-Based Methods for Researching Schools

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Overview

Schools are complex institutions. They do not easily reveal themselves to researchers who rely on only one or two methods. Understanding a school, its neighbourhood and its students requires a researcher with a more complex repertoire of verbal, statistical and visual research strategies.

Place-Based Methods for Researching 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.

Including research tips from the authors, case studies, a glossary and annotated further reading list, this book is essential reading for students and scholars approaching their research project.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781474242905
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 12/15/2016
Series: Bloomsbury Research Methods for Education
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 296
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Pat Thomson is Professor of Education in the School of Education at the University of Nottingham, UK. A former headteacher, she works with teachers and artists using action research and ethnographic approaches. Her research focuses on arts, learning and change in educational, gallery, museum and community settings.

Christine Hall is Professor of Education in the School of Education at The University of Nottingham, UK. Formerly a secondary school teacher, she has worked in teacher education for the last 20 years supervising numerous students and teachers on school-based research projects. Her research is on literacy and the arts in schools.
Pat Thomson is Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham, UK. She also directs the Centre of Advanced Studies (faculties of arts and social sciences). A former headteacher, she now focuses on arts, learning and change in educational and community settings.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Series Editor's Preface
Glossary of Research Methods and Approaches

Introducing the book
1. Studying a School
2. Getting Into the School
3. Getting to Know the Neighbourhood
4. Reading the School
5. Living with the School
6. Multiple Perspectives on the School
7. Analysing Complex Data Sets
8. Writing the School

Appendix
Bibliography
Index
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