ABSTRACT

This book presents a series of research biographies based on research experiences in the study of educational settings. The main aim is to provide a set of first person accounts on doing research that combine analysis with description. The contributors have been drawn from the disciplines of sociology and educational studies and have all conducted ethnographic work or case studies in a variety of educational settings.

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

chapter |24 pages

The Old Girl Network

Recollections on the Fieldwork at St Luke's

chapter |29 pages

The Researcher Exposed

A Natural History

chapter |28 pages

Beachside Reconsidered

Reflections on a Methodological Apprenticeship

chapter |19 pages

Dimensions of Gender in a School

Reinventing the Wheel?

chapter |22 pages

The Man in the Wendy House

Researching Infants' Schools

chapter |23 pages

Wards and Deeds

Taking Knowledge and Control Seriously

chapter |16 pages

Chocolate Cream Soldiers

Sponsorship, Ethnography and Sectarianism