Educational Research

Focusing on how to address persistent linguistically structured inequalities, this book lays bare the tension between the commitment to multilingualism and language-in-education policy – particularly in South Africa – and the realities of the dominance of English and the virtual absence of indigenou..

This collection of ground-breaking international essays address the educational, social, work and biographical experiences of young women who are routinely constructed as ‘at risk’ and on the margins...

Published in 1996, this book is written for teachers and other professionals who work with children with multiple disabilities, much attention is focused on the practitioner’s role in the successful use of technology._x005F_x000D_..

In the World Library of Educationalists, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a singl..

This new book on school attendance and behaviour includes contributions on some of the latest research and thinking from around the world. Some of the interesting, wide-ranging, and often unique topics covered include: truancy and well-being, disaffection, pupil absenteeism, social mediation, aggres..

This book contains some of the latest research on school attendance and behavior. Topics include: truancy and well-being, pupil absenteeism, social mediation, aggression in primary schools, bullying, behaviour management training, exclusion, reintegration, and ethnic diversity. It was published as a..

Providing a range of theoretical and innovative methodological examples, this book illuminates how new material feminism can be used in education to open up new avenues of research design and practice. It poses questions about the nature of knowledge production, the role of the researcher, and the c..

Bringing together studies located at the intersection of migration, media and learning, this book considers how the learning practices of youth in migration are shaped by new media. The contributors show how learning trajectories of individual learners become defined by broadly distributed networks ..

This book considers how the learning practices of youth in migration are shaped by new media. Contributors show how learning trajectories of individual learners become defined by broadly distributed networks and knowledge systems. This book was originally published as a special issue of Learning, Me..

This volume packages the reading reseach methodology chapters from the HANDBOOK OF READING RESEARCH, VOLUME III. Intended as a text for upper undergraduate and graduate level reading research methods courses and as a resource for scholars in the field...

Published in 1994, Mother’s Intuition? examines the process of choosing secondary schools in two inner London boroughs...

This book focuses on ways in which small scale research studies arising from issues of practice, such as those undertaken by post-graduate researchers and doctoral students, are conceptualised, theorised and implemented using different methodological approaches and research frameworks. The three edi..