Carol Aubrey, Tricia David, Ray Godfrey

Early Childhood Educational Research

Issues in Methodology and Ethics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provision of education for children under five has recently become a political concern. At the same time, this relatively small field has been attracting increased research attention, with many early years practitioners seeking routes to initial and higher degrees. This book offers essential guidance for researchers and newcomers to the field, outlining opportunities in research as well as useful, sensitive and appropriate methods for researching childhood education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 162mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780750707466
• ISBN-10: 0750707461
• Artikelnr.: 21273112

Autorenporträt

Carol Aubrey, Tricia David, Ray Godfrey, Linda Thompson

Inhaltsangabe

Part I:Changing concepts and methods in early years education research
1.Researching early childhood education 2.Constructing childhoods 3.Resrach
paradigms: ways of seeing 4.Forms of observation: measurement and
analysisPart II:Early childhood education: changing research practice
5.Early childhood research prior to 1985 6.Early childhood education
research in a time of changePart III: Early childhood education research in
action 7.Multilevel modelling: a case study on mathematics performance
8.Ethnography for early childhood settingsPart IV: Current policy,
perspectives and practice in the field 9.Roles, responsibilities and
relationships 10.Ethical issues 11.A Canterbury tale: the researcher's
inside story 12.Policy and practice: the hand that rocks the cradle
13.Current theoretical perspectives: directions for the future?