01822 a2200169 4500 25773 25773 9781474242882 370.72 THO-P Thomson, Pat Hall, Christine Place-based methods for researching schools Bloomsbury Academic 2017 London xv, 276 p Include Bibliography and Index 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 Research Methods in Schools surveys multiple research tools rather than dealing with them separately. 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 the 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, boxed case studies, a glossary and annotated further reading list, this book is essential reading for students and scholars approaching their research project Education Social aspects Research Methodology ddc BK 0 0 0 0 NASSDOC NASSDOC 2019-12-26 OP 1507.34 2019-12-20 0 370.72 THO-P 50595 2019-12-30 00:00:00 2064.86 2019-12-26 BK