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Potentials of Collaborative Educational Welfare Research - Theorizing Voice Plurality and Social Empowerment
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Smeplass, Eli; Rapp, Anna Cecilia; Sperling, Katarina; Akse, Jannicke – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2023
Childhood marginalization is the result of complicated processes that appears difficult to address for policymakers worldwide. Neo-institutional theory enables studies of the complexity of educational organizations, showing how they evolve in responses to their contradictory surroundings and generate unintended social inequality. Three Nordic…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Urban Areas, Social Problems, Equal Education
Research Dilemmas Associated with Photo Elicitation in Comparative Early Childhood Education Research
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Birkeland, Asta – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2013
Photo elicitation has become an important method to produce data in qualitative research. There is quite an extensive literature indicating the benefits of photo elicitation in order to facilitate collaboration in meaning making between researcher and the interviewee. This article addresses dilemmas associated with using photo elicitation in a…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Interviews, Cross Cultural Studies, Photography
A Psychoanalytic Approach to Fieldwork
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Ramvi, Ellen – Journal of Research Practice, 2012
This article focuses on what both psychoanalysis and anthropology have in common: the emphasis on the researcher's own experience. An ethnographic fieldwork will be used to illustrate how a psychoanalytical approach unfolds the material when studying conditions for learning from experience among teachers in two Norwegian junior high schools, and…
Descriptors: Field Studies, Ethnography, Research Methodology, Psychiatry
An Atlantic Crossing? The Work of the International Examination Inquiry, Its Researchers, Methods and Influence
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Lawn, Martin, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2008
This book focuses on the International Examinations Inquiry (IEI), an international, well-funded scientific project that operated in the 1930s, attracting key world figures in educational research, and which undertook significant exchanges of data. Originally involving the USA, Scotland, England, France, Germany and Switzerland, the IEI grew to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Testing, International Programs, Educational Research
The Start-Up Phase in a Research and Development Work Project: A Foundation for Development
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Postholm, May Britt – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
The article is based on a research and development work project (R&D project) conducted in a Norwegian lower secondary school. The purpose of the text is to describe the researchers' and teachers' roles during the initial phase of such a project, and what this phase and the close cooperation between the researcher and teachers mean for the…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Teacher Role, Educational Researchers, Foreign Countries
Survey of Educational Research in Norway, 1971-1972.
Sunnana, Olav, Ed. – 1972
Part of a series of biennial national surveys, this document is the result of an international project undertaken by member governments of the Council of Europe. The volume is a study of Norwegian educational research projects that were in progress during 1971-1972. The basis of the survey was a questionnaire developed by the Council of Europe.…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Innovation, Educational Problems, Educational Research