David Scott - Researching Education - Hardcover Book

David Scott

Researching EducationData, methods and theory in educational enquiry\nAuthor(s): David Scott, Robin Usher\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation, United States\nImprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation\nISBN-13: 9781441120540, 978-1441120540\nSynopsis\nThis book examines the philosophical, historical, political and social contexts of research and the implications of these for the collection and analysis of data. \""Researching Education\"" looks at the theory and practice of researching education and examines the philosophical, historical, political and social contexts of research and the implications of these for the collection and analysis of data. Scott and Usher argue that while power is ever present in the construction of research texts, this is inevitable as research imposes a closure of the world through representations and thus is always and inevitably involved with and implicated in the operation of power. The authors provide a theoretical framework ag.