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In academic research we often find reference to the phrase ‘fields of enquiry’, particularly in the discourse of social and educational domains, and this agricultural metaphor is sustained in terms used for the various processes and tools used to investigate social worlds. Social researchers talk, for example, about ‘entering the field’ and ‘gathering’ data as if venturing into the world to harvest material for processing (analysis) before its eventual distribution and consumption by a society hungrily seeking new information to build up its body of knowledge and increase its capacities for growth and improvement.
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Flutter, J. (2016). Fields and Oceans. In: Burnard, P., Dragovic, T., Flutter, J., Alderton, J. (eds) Transformative Doctoral Research Practices for Professionals. Critical Issues in the Future of Learning and Teaching. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-630-9_1
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