Product Description: The Anglophone world is gripped by a moral panic centred on child abuse in general and fear of the paedophile in particular. Evidence suggests an alarming rise in the number of false allegations of sexual abuse being made against teachers, and demonstrates that the fallout from being falsely accused is far-reaching and sometimes tragic...read more

Product Description: Terry Eagleton leads this exploration of how power operates in the academy with the argument that power is itself no bad thing, and Slavoj Žižek maintains that the people always have power and should be roused to use it.From his American perspective, Cameron McCarthy follows with a hard and disconcerting look at power and culture in the academy...read more

Researching Education from the Inside focuses on research projects that are undertaken by people who already have an attachment to the institutions or social groups on which their investigations are based. They can, therefore, be considered to be ‘insiders’. In some cases their insider positioning is primarily important because it gets them access to the particular people and/or the phenomena that they want to investigate. At other times, however, aspects of their own ‘insidership’ will, in itself, come under scrutiny. Insider researchers need to consider five distinct stages that can lead to ethical dilemmas, namely: Entering the field, Being in the field, Leaving the field, Writing, and Disseminating the results. This book covers these stages whist considering important issues such as: Access, Choice of research methods, Field relationships, Involvement of informants, Confidentiality and anonymity, Interpretation of findings including validity and reliability.   Failure to properly consider these key factors can lead to disastrous consequences for any research but it can be a special problem for insider investigators. These vital issues are discussed by an impressive range of contributors in this ground-breaking book, making it an invaluable resource for anyone participating in Insider Research.

Product Description: Whether you undertaking a taught doctorate, or a course of study leading to a PhD, this book offers complete, up-to-date guidance and discussion on all aspects of successful doctoral work. The five experienced authors give advice on every stage in the process of completing a doctorate, from helping you to engage in critical reflection to better understand your own research biases, to useful guidelines on preparing for, and surviving, the viva...read more

Product Description: The Moral Foundations of Educational Research considers what is distinctive about educational research in comparison with other research in the social sciences. As the contributors all agree that education is always an essentially moral enterprise, discussion about methodology starts, not with the widely endorsed claim that educational research should be 'useful' and 'relevant', but with the attempt to justify and elaborate that claim with reference to its moral foundations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book looks at the renewed popularity of life history research, especially among scholars studying education. It examines the reasons behind this popularity and the life history approach's contribution to the study of schooling...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a collection of stories based on extensive interviews with parents who teach, providing a study of how parenthood affects teachers' careers. Exploring the link between raising one's own children and educating others, the author of this book asks whether male or female teachers are most affected by parenthood...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Language:Chinese.GENDER AND SCHOOLS (INTRODUCTION TO EDUCATION S.) (Map)