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The (Non-)Use of Configurative Reviews in Education
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Levinsson, Magnus; Prøitz, Tine S. – Education Inquiry, 2017
The push for evidence-based practice in education has led to a range of initiatives aimed at bridging the gap between research, policy and practice. Among these are the establishment of brokerage agencies with a mission to synthesise the findings of educational research. This development has been the subject of extensive controversy over the last…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Research Problems
Questioning Methodologies in Research on Men in ECEC
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Rohrmann, Tim; Brody, David – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2015
Research that elucidates the complexities of gender balance is itself a controversial field. This article examines challenges and limitations in quantitative as well as qualitative research on gender balance in early childhood education and care (ECEC). Cross country comparisons of male and female participation in the ECEC workforce are often…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Males, Sex Fairness, Gender Differences
Enacting Subjectivities in Educational History: Methodological Reflections on the Use of Qualitative Interviews for History Writing
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Bjerg, Helle; Rasmussen, Lisa Rosen – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2008
Two studies of the formation of pupils' subjectivities within the Danish school and educational system in the period 1945-2005 create the framework for a methodological discussion of how subjectivities in educational history can be studied. Both studies use qualitative interviews as a way of studying subject formations in educational history. This…
Descriptors: Educational History, Use Studies, Reflection, Foreign Countries
The Class of 1980: Methodological Reflections on Educational High School Narratives from Denmark in the 1970s and 1980s
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de Coninck-Smith, Ning – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2008
This paper is based on the author's experiences of interviewing seven men and seven women who graduated from a Danish high school in 1980, at a moment when the upper secondary system underwent a process of democratisation. She questioned the informants as to the role education has played in their lives, and as to the sense their choice of…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Foreign Countries, Role of Education, Reflection
The Agonistic Approach: Reframing Resistance in Qualitative Research
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Vitus, Kathrine – Qualitative Inquiry, 2008
The agonistic approach--aimed at embracing opposing perspectives as part of a qualitative research process and acknowledging that process as fundamentally political--sheds light on both the construction of and the resistance to research identities. This approach involves reflexively embedding interview situations into the ethnographic context as a…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Researchers, Interviews
Evidence and Policy Research
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Schuller, Tom; Jochems, Wim; Moos, Lejf; van Zanten, Agnes – European Educational Research Journal, 2006
The EERJ roundtable took as its point of departure the experience of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) in carrying out policy research. CERI has conducted four reviews of national educational research and development (in New Zealand, England, Mexico and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
Research Perspectives on the Transition from School to Work. Report of a European Contact Workshop Organised by the Institute of Education (ECF) under the Auspices of the Council of Europe with the Participation of the Commission of the European Communities, Brugge, July 1977.
Neave, Guy, Ed. – 1978
This report presents papers, analyses, and recommendations of a five-day workshop held to explore the relationship of education and youth employment. Five papers delivered at the meetings are included: "Current Assumptions on the Nature and Purpose of Secondary Education and Its Relation to Education 16-19," by Edmund King; "Review…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Disadvantaged Youth