Fieldwork in Educational Settings: Methods, Pitfalls and Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Sara Delamont

• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 264
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of tables......Page 8
Preface: the golden journey......Page 9
Caveat: Do you really want to do qualitative research?......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
For lust of knowing: introduction to the scope and purpose of the book......Page 16
Tales, marvellous tales: recognizing good fieldwork and reading wisely......Page 25
Beyond that last blue mountain: impediments to good fieldwork and how to overcome them......Page 46
Manuscripts in peacock styles: writing diaries, data and texts......Page 72
Gnawing the nail of hurry: choosing the topic, setting and problem......Page 92
Sweet to ride forth: gaining access and recording the process......Page 110
Beauty and bright faith: early days in the field and how to record them......Page 128
Spikenard, mastic and terebinth: varieties of data collected and recorded......Page 136
Seek not excess: maintaining relationships in the field......Page 155
Leaving the dim-moon city of delight: terminating your fieldwork......Page 174
Beauty lives though lilies die: analysing and theorizing......Page 184
For glory or for gain: producing the thesis or book......Page 200
Always a little further: the conclusions......Page 228
Bibliography......Page 232
Index......Page 255