Description
Book Synopsis* What is historical research in education?
* How can researchers get started in this area?
* Why does this field offer a common project for historians, educationists, and researchers across the social sciences?
This book explores how to set about historical research in education. The first general guide of its kind for fifty years, the book locates this field in relation to changes in educational research, historical research, and a wide range of social sciences. It offers a theoretical guide to the rationales and problems of the field as well as to current opportunities for research. It also gives practical advice for getting started and for suitable research methods in different kinds of projects, and in doing so draws critically on extensive international literature. It includes detailed case studies on the following topics in historical research: Curriculum and Classrooms, Foucauldian Interpretations, the 'Alternative Road', Literacy in the Nineteenth Century,
Trade Review"I Shall put this valuable study into the hands of any of my students writing on historical topics in education, since it is an intelligent, scholarly and eminently sensible introduction to the kind of methodological issues it is actually helpful to address - David PhillipsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements
Glossary of terms
Getting started
What the textbooks say and what they don't
History or education?
The challenge of the social sciences
Using published sources
Methodological issues
Designing and carrying out a research project
References
Index.
