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- Invaluable guide for advanced students and specialists in educational research
- Addresses key debates in the areas of conceptualizing, contextualizing, representing and legitimating educational research
- Looks at these key issues in relation to contemporary trends in educational research
- Exciting new and needed approach in educational research
- Breaks from the standard paradigms and methods ‘coverage’
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Table of contents (77 chapters)
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Characterising Research in Education
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Contextualising Research in Education
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Front Matter
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Education, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
Alan D. Reid
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Faculty of Education, University of Regina, Regina, Canada
E. Paul Hart
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Hamilton Campus, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Michael A. Peters
About the editors
Alan D. Reid is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, Monash University. He edits Environmental Education Research, and is a member of the Education, Environment and Sustainability Faculty Research Group. Until 2012, he worked at the Centre for Research in Education and the Environment, University of Bath, and is active in a range of environmental education research activities and networks, primarily in Europe, North America and Australasia. Alan’s research interests focus on teachers’ thinking and practice in environmental education, and traditions, capacities and issues in environmental education theory, research and practice.
Paul Hart is Professor of Science and Environmental Education at the University of Regina and has been Visiting Professor at universities in Zurich, Bath, Durham and Monash. He has published widely in the field of environmental education, is Senior Editor of the Journal of Environmental Education, and Consulting Editor for several other journals. He has received many research awards and has served on the Grants Adjudication Committee for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Paul’s current research interests are in the area of sociocultural learning and the construction of environmental identity.
Michael A. Peters is Professor of Education at Waikato University, Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Adjunct Professor in the School of Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and School of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou University. He is the executive editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory and editor of two international ejournals, Policy Futures in Education and E-Learning and Digital Media. Michael is an internationally renowned scholar of education, philosophy and social policy, with over 60 books to his name. He has a strong research interests in distributed knowledge systems, digital scholarship andelearning systems and has acted as an advisor to government on these and related matters in Scotland, NZ, South Africa and the EU.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Companion to Research in Education
Editors: Alan D. Reid, E. Paul Hart, Michael A. Peters
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6809-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6808-6Published: 22 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0193-6Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6809-3Published: 11 November 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 606
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Education, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Educational Policy and Politics, Education, general, Social Sciences, general