Educational Research

In the World Library of Educationalists series, 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 ..

In the World Library of Educationalists series, 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 ..

Published in 1996, this volume includes the presidential address of Sara Delamont, the first female President of Bera written and presented in 1984. The book also includes a selection of papers on gender and education...

This book examines the history and nature of Academies and Free Schools, presenting a diverse range of views on the processes by which they have come into existence, and their effects in terms of social justice. This book was published as a special issue of Research Papers in Education...

First introduced by Labour in 2000, Academies underwent significant changes under the coalition, with the 2010 Academies Act, which allowed successful state schools to apply to become Academies, rather than limiting the status to new schools. Also introduced were Free Schools, where parents, teacher..

Originally published in 1986, this book considers both universal and culturally constrained aspects of the process of learning to read, with the first four chapters exemplifying cognitive universal approaches to reading, and the last four highlighting cultural constraints...

This ground-breaking book brings together cutting-edge researchers who study the transformation of practice through the enhancement and transformation of expertise. This is an important moment for such a contribution because expertise is in transition – moving toward collaboration in inter-organizat..

Originally published in 1986, this book presents three full case studies of secondary school communities in Australia: one city school in a working-class area, one community school serving a wide, more rural area, and a school with an academic tradition in the suburbs of a large city.  The book incl..

Qualitative research synthesis provides a comprehensive glimpse of what individual qualitative studies show. The authors describe the process of data analysis, synthesis and interpretation that users may follow and adapt...

In an attempt to cope with the profusion of tools and techniques for qualitative methods, texts for students have tended to respond in the following two ways: "how to" or "why to." In contrast, this book takes on both tasks to give students a more complete picture of the field. An Invitation to Qual..

This book explores the challenges of assessing quality in applied and practice-based research in education. It offers various views on quality in applied and practice-based research and proposes ways in which quality ‘criteria’ may reflect more closely the diversity of applied research and its compl..

Published in 1983, this book is based on major research conducted by the ILEA over a number of years and provides the only substantial evaluation of support centre: off-site special units to which disruptive pupils are sent for varying periods of time for education and supervision...