This volume offers a unique set of research exemplars for science, mathematics and technology educators. The volume explores the important challenge of how to translate leading-edge methodologies into practical research strategies and techniques. The book is divided into three major sections, The Golden Age of Research, Meeting the Research Crises and A New Era of Research, with chapters exploring a variety of methodologies and representational forms and texts. These include historical, narrative, literary, phenomenological, autobiographical, virtual and performance texts, among others.
Qualitative Research in Postmodern Times is an exciting and accessible book that will be essential reading for science, mathematics and technology educators interested in new forms of educational research. Beginning researchers will find it practically helpful in planning and conducting their research studies, while experienced researchers will welcome new theoretical insights into postmodern methodologies.
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Moving From The Golden Age Of Research.- Contemporary Qualitative Research for Science and Mathematics Educators.- Working with Critical Feedback to Improve Research Writing.- Understanding Teacher Understanding: An Ethical Challenge.- Historicity, Narrative, and Metaphor: My Journey through Historical Research.- Understanding the Self as Instrument.- Exploring Students’ Futures Images.- School Science Stories and a Strategy of Action for Cultural Transformation.- Meeting The Research Crises.- Exploring Students’ Learning Experiences through Narrative Tales.- Naturalistic Inquiry in Cross-cultural Research: A Narrative Turn.- A Question of Balance: Critical Incidents, Tensions, and Curriculum Change.- Out of the Ashes: An Autoethnography.- The Impact of a Research Vignette on My Metaphorical Understandings.- Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Impressionist Tales and Secret Stories of Life in Classrooms.- A New Era Of Research.- Being Punk Helps to Perform a Phenomenological Study.- A Journey in the Construction of Meaning: Experiencing and Accounting for Emergent Research Methodology.- Excavating A Researcher’s Moral Sensitivities: An Autobiographical Research Approach.- Developing Perspectival Understanding.- Beyond Bricolage.- Storying, Critical Reflexivity, and Imagination.Meer e-boeken van dezelfde auteur (s) / Editor
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