Contemporary Qualitative Research

Exemplars for Science and Mathematics Educators
2007. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4020-5919-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 1200 g

Reihe: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education

This accessible volume offers a unique set of research exemplars for science, mathematics and technology educators. The volume explores the important challenge of how to translate leading-edge methodologies into practical research strategies and techniques.

It is the first book on the market that deals specifically with postmodern approaches to research in the field of science education and is a tightly edited volume that provides a coherent treatment of the issues.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, Peter Charles

Wallace, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Moving From The Golden Age Of Research.- Contemporary Qualitative Research for Science and Mathematics Educators.- Working with Critical Feedback to Improve Research Writing.- Understanding Teacher Understanding: An Ethical Challenge.- Historicity, Narrative, and Metaphor: My Journey through Historical Research.- Understanding the Self as Instrument.- Exploring Students' Futures Images.- School Science Stories and a Strategy of Action for Cultural Transformation.- Meeting The Research Crises.- Exploring Students' Learning Experiences through Narrative Tales.- Naturalistic Inquiry in Cross-cultural Research: A Narrative Turn.- A Question of Balance: Critical Incidents, Tensions, and Curriculum Change.- Out of the Ashes: An Autoethnography.- The Impact of a Research Vignette on My Metaphorical Understandings.- Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Impressionist Tales and Secret Stories of Life in Classrooms.- A New Era Of Research.- Being Punk Helps to Perform a Phenomenological Study.- A Journey in the Construction of Meaning: Experiencing and Accounting for Emergent Research Methodology.- Excavating A Researcher's Moral Sensitivities: An Autobiographical Research Approach.- Developing Perspectival Understanding.- Beyond Bricolage.- Storying, Critical Reflexivity, and Imagination.