Place-Based Methods for Researching Schools

by Pat Thomson and Christine Hall

Book Overview

Schools are complex institutions. They do not easily reveal themselves to researchers who rely on only one or two methods. Understanding a school, its neighbourhood and its students requires a researcher with a more complex repertoire of verbal, statistical and visual research strategies.

Place-Based Methods for Researching Schools shows how multiple methods can be used together to research schools, rather than dealing with decontextualised...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147424288X
• ISBN13: 9781474242882
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"