The Routledge Doctoral Student's Companion: Getting to Grips with Research in Education and the...
ISBN: 9780415484121 | 041548412X
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Routledge
Pub. Date: 5/10/2010
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There are a burgeoning number of books available to support doctoral research ' doing-it guides and advice books, methods books, philosophy, ethics, analysis, getting published, and so on. There are countless methodology and methods texts in particular. However, this extensive literature is difficult for doctoral students to navigate and thus will not necessarily take them forward in their projects. Uniquely, this book is a companion to the many catalogues of texts now available for doctoral purchase.Becoming a researcher involves engaging with... MORE
| List of figures | p. ix |
| List of tables | p. x |
| Notes on contributors | p. xi |
| Introduction Why The Doctoral Companions? | p. 1 |
| Doctoral education in context The changing nature of the doctorate and doctoral students | p. 9 |
| Becoming and being a doctoral student | p. 27 |
| Ignorance in educational research How not knowing shapes new knowledge | p. 31 |
| When qualitative meets quant... MORE | p. 43 |
| Interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity Diverse purposes of research: theory-oriented, situation-oriented, policy-oriented | p. 52 |
| The necessity and violence of theory | p. 68 |
| Bringing theory to doctoral research | p. 76 |
| Seeking the single thread The Conceptual Quest | p. 85 |
| Theory and narrative in the production of knowledge | p. 96 |
| Making sense of supervision Deciphering feedback | p. 107 |
| Entering the gates of the elect Obtaining the doctorate in education in South Africa | p. 116 |
| Weaving the threads of doctoral research journeys | p. 128 |
| Coming to terms with research practice | p. 143 |
| It's been said before and we'll say it again - research is writing | p. 149 |
| Constructing research questions: focus, methodology and theorisation | p. 161 |
| Research questions What's worth asking and why? | p. 172 |
| 'There is no golden key' Overcoming problems with data analysis in qualitative research | p. 183 |
| Dealing with data analysis | p. 200 |
| Researching with large datasets: learning to think big when small is beautiful | p. 213 |
| Doing data analysis | p. 221 |
| Argumentation and the doctoral thesis: theory and practice | p. 231 |
| Writing research | p. 244 |
| 'Guilty knowledge' The (im)possibility of ethical security in social science research | p. 256 |
| Dangerous reflexivity Rigour, responsibility and reflexivity in qualitative research | p. 270 |
| Emotions and being a doctoral student | p. 283 |
| Making a contribution to knowledge | p. 295 |
| Quality agendas and doctoral work The tacit, the new agendas, the changing contexts | p. 299 |
| Generating practitioner knowledge through practitioner action research Moving from local to public knowledge | p. 311 |
| Coyote and Raven talk about equivalency of other/ed knowledges in research | p. 323 |
| Knowledge in context Whose knowledge and for what context? | p. 335 |
| Open access and the ongoing transformation of scholarly publishing A guide for doctoral students | p. 344 |
| Inner university, knowledge workers and liminality | p. 356 |
| Global students for global education research? | p. 368 |
| The impact of research on education policy The relevance for doctoral researchers | p. 377 |
| Last words Why doctoral study? | p. 390 |
| Index | p. 403 |
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Gary Alan Fine is John Evans Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. His book Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America was a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award.
Bill Ellis is Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Penn State University. He is a Fellow of the American Folklore Society and has served as President of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research.
Pat thomson Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of South Australia and a Visiting Professor at Deakin University, Victoria, Australia.
Melanie Walker is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Nottingham, and is also Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
Bill Ellis is Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Penn State University. He is a Fellow of the American Folklore Society and has served as President of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research.
Pat thomson Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of South Australia and a Visiting Professor at Deakin University, Victoria, Australia.
Melanie Walker is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Nottingham, and is also Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
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