Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Preface and acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
1. An outline of a theory of practice methodologies: education research as an expansive-activist endeavour
JULIANNE LYNCH, JULIE ROWLANDS, TREVOR GALE & STEPHEN PARKER
2. Corporatised fabrications: the methodological challenges of professional biographies at a time of neoliberalisation
STEVEN J. COURTNEY & HELEN M. GUNTER
3. Researching teacher practice: social justice dispositions revealed in activity
TREVOR GALE , RUSSELL CROSS & CARMEN MILLS
4. Digital research methods and sensor technologies: rethinking the temporality of digital life
ELIZABETH DE FREITAS5. Practices within positions: a methodology for analysing intra-group differences in educational fields
JULIA M. MILLER, JOSEPH J. FERRARE & MICHAEL W. APPLE
6. Principles, procedures and applications of dialectical methodologies for the study of human practice
PETER SAWCHUK7. The challenge of Bourdieu’s relational ontology for international comparative research in academic governance practice
JULIE ROWLANDS & SHAUN RAWOLLE8. Social imaginaries in education research
STEVEN HODGE & STEPHEN PARKER
9. Morphologies of knowing: fractal methods for re-thinking classroom technology practices
JULIANNE LYNCH & JOANNE O’MARA
10. Unpacking practice: the challenges and possibilities afforded by sociomaterial ethnography
PAULA CAMERON, ANNA MACLEOD, JONATHAN TUMMONS , OLGA KITS & ROLA AJJAWI
11. What is an inaugural professorial lecture? Exploring academic practices through diffractive listing
EVA BENDIX PETERSEN12. Tactics of resilience: playing with ethnographic data on classroom practice
CATHERINE DOHERTY
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