Multidisciplinary Approaches to Educational Research

Download or read book Multidisciplinary Approaches to Educational Research written by Sadaf Rizvi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an original perspective on a range of controversial issues in educational and social research through case studies of multi-disciplinary and mixed-method research involving children, teachers, schools and communities in Europe and the developing world. These case studies from researchers "across continents" and "across disciplines" explore a range of interesting issues, including the relevance of research approaches to very different national settings, and to the kinds of questions being asked; the barriers of language and culture between researcher and researched; articulating the thinking and feelings of very young children; the challenges of dealing with "partiality" of data; issues of identity, subjectivity and reflexivity; and transferring research approaches from one national setting to the problems posed in another.