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  • Taming Chance in Education

    Control, Prediction and Comparison

    by Daniel Pettersson, Andreas Nordin ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics
    This volume centres the notion of "chance" in education as a key concept in contemporary education – relating to aspects like accountability, datafication, or international large-scale assessments – and discusses the impact that the historical desire to "tame" this notion has had on present-day educational policy and practice.Encouraging readers to widen their educational imagination, chapters ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The International Emergence of Educational Sciences in the Post-World War Two Years

    Quantification, Visualization, and Making Kinds of People

    Edited by Daniel Pettersson, Kai-Jung Hsiao, Thomas Popkewitz ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
    The book brings together contributions from curriculum history, cultural studies, visual cultures, and science and technology studies to explore the international mobilizations of the sciences related to education during the post-World War Two years. Crossing the boundaries of education and science studies, it uniquely examines how the desires of science to actualize a better society were ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • New Practices of Comparison, Quantification and Expertise in Education

    Conducting Empirically Based Research

    Edited by Christina Elde Mølstad, Daniel Pettersson ...
    New Practices of Comparison, Quantification and Expertise in Education discusses contemporary trends and activities related to comparisons and quantifications. It aims to help scholars to conduct empirically based research on how comparisons and quantifications are instituted in practice at different levels in the educational system.The book furthers discussions on policy by looking at the kinds ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Education by the Numbers and the Making of Society

    The Expertise of International Assessments

    Edited by Sverker Lindblad, Daniel Pettersson, Thomas S. Popkewitz ...
    International statistical comparisons of nations have become commonplace in the contemporary landscape of education policy and social science. This book discusses the emergence of these international comparisons as a particular style of reasoning about education, society and science. By examining how international educational assessments have come to dominate much of contemporary policymaking ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • The Global Education Race

    Taking the Measure of PISA and International Testing

    by Sam Sellar, Greg Thompson, David Rutkowski ...
    A global education race now pits countries, regions, and school systems against one another. The racecourse has been created by a small number of influential international testing programs, and the popular media announces winners and losers. Fear of falling behind haunts policy-makers and shapes educational priorities around the world. But are we running in the right direction? We all have a stake ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • New Learning

    Elements of a Science of Education

    by Mary Kalantzis, Bill Cope ...
    In the second edition of New Learning: Elements of a Science of Education, renowned authors Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope explore the contemporary debates and challenges in education. In this time of dramatic social change, education represents significant possibilities and opportunities. Written in accessible and lively style, this book examines learners and their learning environments and ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Institutional Ethnography as Practice

    by Marie L. Campbell, Marjorie L. DeVault, Tim Diamond, Lauren Eastwood, Alison Griffith, Liza McCoy, Eric Mykhalovskiy, Ellen Pence, George W. Smith, Dorothy E. Smith, Susan Turner1, Douglas Weatherbee2, Alex J. Wilson3 ...
    In this edited collection, institutional ethnographers draw on their field research experiences to address different aspects of institutional ethnographic practice. As institutional ethnography embraces the actualities of people's experiences and lives, the contributors utilize their research to reveal how institutional relations and regimes are organized. As a whole, the book aims to provide ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Emerging Approaches to Educational Research

    Tracing the Socio-Material

    by Tara Fenwick, Richard Edwards, Peter Sawchuk ...
    The last fifteen years have seen much conceptual and methodological innovation in research on education and learning across the lifecourse, bringing both fresh insights and new dilemmas. This innovation was initially fuelled by the growing influence of conceptual framings often named as either post-structural or postmodern. The works of Foucault, Derrida and Lyotard have variously found their way ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research

    Edited by Reza Banakar, Dr Max Travers ...
    Series series Oñati International Series in Law and Society
    Socio-legal researchers increasingly recognise the need to employ a wide variety of methods in studying law and legal phenomena, and the need to be informed by an understanding of debates about theory and method in mainstream social science. The papers in this volume illustrate how a range of topics, including EU law, ombudsmen, judges, lawyers, Shariah Councils and the quality assurance industry ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Theory and Methods in Social Research

    Edited by Professor Bridget Somekh, Dr Cathy Lewin ...
    This new edition provides a scholarly and readable introduction to all the key qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and methods, enabling postgraduate and masters-level students and new researchers to reflect on which ones suit their needs and to receive guidance on how to find out more.With chapters written by experienced research practitioners, this second edition has been ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Handbook of Public Policy Analysis

    Theory, Politics, and Methods

    Edited by Frank Fischer, Gerald J. Miller ...
    Series series Public Administration and Public Policy
    The study of public policy and the methods of policy analysis are among the most rapidly developing areas in the social sciences. Policy analysis has emerged to provide a better understanding of the policymaking process and to supply decision makers with reliable policy-relevant knowledge about pressing economic and social problems.Presenting a broad, comprehensive perspective, the Handbook of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Social Research

    by Tim May ...
    This text successfully bridges the gap between theory and methods in social research, bringing understanding of the dynamics of social relations. ... Read more

    $45.99 USD