ABSTRACT

Practice Methodologies in Education Research offers a fresh approach to researching practice in education. Addressing a major gap in research methodology scholarship, it highlights how integral practice theory is to the transformational agendas of education research, introducing a theory of activist practice methodologies informed by expansive theories of practice. 

With contributions from leading education researchers drawn from across the world, the book confronts onto-epistemological dilemmas for doing research that arise from taking practice theory seriously, including the theories of Bourdieu, de Certeau, Deleuze, Haraway, Latour, Taylor, and Vygotsky. A defining feature of the chapters is their activist axiologies and their experimental approach to researching practice in education, in fields as diverse as educational leadership, schooling, higher education, adult and workplace education and training, professional practice, and informal learning. 

Practice Methodologies in Education is essential reading for education academics and postgraduates engaged in critical research using practice theory.

chapter Chapter 1|26 pages

An outline of a theory of practice methodologies

Education research as an expansive-activist endeavour

chapter Chapter 2|21 pages

Corporatised fabrications

The methodological challenges of professional biographies at a time of neoliberalisation

chapter Chapter 3|15 pages

Researching teacher practice

Social justice dispositions revealed in activity

chapter Chapter 4|20 pages

Digital research methods and sensor technologies

Rethinking the temporality of digital life1

chapter Chapter 5|21 pages

Practices within positions

A methodology for analysing intra-group differences in educational fields

chapter Chapter 9|21 pages

Morphologies of knowing

Fractal methods for re-thinking classroom technology practices

chapter Chapter 10|19 pages

Unpacking practice

The challenges and possibilities afforded by sociomaterial ethnography

chapter Chapter 12|17 pages

Tactics of resilience

Playing with ethnographic data on classroom practice