ABSTRACT

Extensively revised and updated, this new edition of Fieldwork in Educational Settings will be welcomed by researchers and academics in education and the social sciences. Embracing both sociological and anthropological approaches to qualitative research, the book covers education inside and beyond schools. It emphasises writing up ethnographic research and getting the project finished, and is packed with examples from research in progress.
This new edition brings the original text right up to date for new researchers. There is an additional chapter on computer software for data handling and attention is given to the implications of postmodernism for writing up research. The examples given are taken from the latest research, replacing those from the first edition. This is an indispensable handbook by an author whose work on this subject is widely recognised as being an essential resource for the researcher in education.

chapter 1|1 pages

For lust of knowing

Introduction to the scope and purpose of the book

chapter |8 pages

The scope and purpose of the book

chapter 2|2 pages

Tales, marvellous tales

Recognizing good fieldwork and reading wisely

chapter |2 pages

The three types of reading

chapter |1 pages

Primary schools and devolution

chapter |1 pages

Taking notes on the literature

chapter |7 pages

Reading critically and learning

chapter 3|1 pages

Beyond that last blue mountain

Impediments to good fieldwork and how to overcome them

chapter |25 pages

Failing to finish

chapter 4|6 pages

Manuscripts in peacock styles

Writing diaries, data and texts

chapter |14 pages

WEO integration project

chapter 5|18 pages

Gnawing the nail of hurry

Choosing the topic, setting and problem

chapter 6|2 pages

Sweet to ride forth

Gaining access and recording the process

chapter |1 pages

How to gain access

chapter |4 pages

Letter Two

chapter |1 pages

Conclusions

chapter 7|1 pages

Beauty and bright faith

Early days in the field and how to record them

chapter |6 pages

In unfamiliar settings

chapter |1 pages

Conclusions

chapter 8|19 pages

Spikenard, mastic and terebinth

Varieties of data collected and recorded

chapter 9|1 pages

Seek not excess

Maintaining relationships in the field

chapter |18 pages

Establishing fieldwork relationships

chapter 10|7 pages

Leaving the dim-moon city of delight

Terminating your fieldwork

chapter |1 pages

After the field

chapter |2 pages

The permanent hangover

chapter 11|4 pages

Beauty lives though lilies die

Analysing and theorizing

chapter |12 pages

Analysing qualitative data step by step

chapter 12|15 pages

For glory or for gain

Producing the thesis or book

chapter |13 pages

The dialogue

chapter 13|4 pages

Always a little further

The conclusions