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  • Realist Inquiry in Social Science

    by Colin Evers, Brian Douglas Haig ...
    Realist Inquiry in Social Science is an invaluable guide to conducting realist research. Written by highly regarded experts in the field, the first part of the book sets out the fundamentals necessary for rigorous realist research, while the second part deals with a number of its most important applications, discussing it in the context of case studies, action research and grounded theory amongst ... Read more

    $78.29 USD

  • Why Context Matters in Educational Leadership

    A New Theoretical Understanding

    by Colin Evers, Gabriele Lakomski ...
    Why Context Matters in Educational Leadership: A New Theoretical Understanding is unique in the field of educational leadership studies. This book offers a systematic account of educational leadership from the perspective that context matters. It argues that studies of leadership in education can only progress if the importance of context is understood and presents context as a set of constraints ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • New Directions in Educational Leadership Theory

    Edited by Scott Eacott, Colin Evers ...
    Series series Educational Philosophy and Theory
    Educational leadership has a rich history of epistemological debate. From the ‘Theory Movement’of the 1950-1960s, through to Greenfield’s critique of logical empiricism in the 1970s, the emergence of Bates’ and Foster’s Critical Theory of educational administration in the 1980s, and Evers’ and Lakomski’s naturalistic coherentism from1990 to the present time, debates about ways of knowing, doing, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Questioning Leadership

    New directions for educational organisations

    Edited by Gabriele Lakomski, Scott Eacott, Colin W. Evers ...
    Series series Foundations and Futures of Education
    Questioning Leadership offers a diverse mix of cutting-edge research in the field of educational leadership, with contributions from expert and emerging leadership scholars. It contextualises school leadership within broader social and historical contexts and traces its influence on school performance through time, from its relatively modest role within a systems theory paradigm to its growing ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Teacher Leadership

    New conceptions for autonomous student learning in the age of the Internet

    by Kokila Roy Katyal, Colin William Evers ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    In recent years teacher leadership has undergone one major revolution and is in the process of undergoing another. The first came about as schools turned out to be far too complex for the responsibility of formulating and achieving their goals to be vested entirely in principals and head teachers. As a consequence, the rise of distributed leadership as an alternative model for understanding ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    by Emma Bell, Richard Thorpe ...
    Series series Very Short, Fairly Interesting & Cheap Books
    In Management Research the authors provide a stimulating and critical overview of the key theoretical debates on research paradigms and methodologies, demystifying the process and providing invaluable insights into the politics and practice of research.Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the ‘Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap’ series ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Transforming Social Work Practice

    Postmodern Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Jan Fook, Bob Pease ...
    Transforming Social Work Practice shows that postmodern theory offers new strategies for social workers concerned with political action and social justice. It explores ways of developing practice frameworks, paradigms and principles which take advantage of the perspectives offered by postmodern theory without totally abandoning the values of modernity and the Enlightenment project of human ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Reconstructing the Lifelong Learner

    Pedagogy and Identity in Individual, Organisational and Social Change

    by Clive Chappell, Carl Rhodes, Nicky Solomon, Mark Tennant, Lyn Yates ...
    How is adult learning used to produce personal, organisational and social change? This interesting examination of adult learning for change illustrates through diverse case studies and theoretical perspectives that personal change is inextricably linked to broader organisational and social change. The authors explore how theorising education as a vehicle for self-change is relevant to the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • New Directions in Action Research

    Edited by Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt ...
    This collection provides a worldwide perspective on action research, a process which covers educational, professional, managerial and organizational development. ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Gender and Language Theory and Practice

    by Lia Litosseliti ...
    The book introduces both theoretical and applied perspectives, identifying and explaining the relevant frameworks and drawing on a range of activities/examples of how gender is constructed in discourse.The book is divided into three parts. Part I covers the historical background to the study of gender and language, moving on through past theoretical approaches to a discussion of current debates in ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Language Diversity and Education

    by David Corson ...
    This introductory text for students of linguistics, language, and education provides background and up-to-date information and resources that beginning researchers need for studying language diversity and education.Three framing chapters offer an update on the philosophy of social research, revealing how important language is for all the processes of learning in which humans engage, whether it is ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Ethnography in Social Science Practice

    Edited by Julie Scott-Jones, Sal Watt ...
    Ethnography in Social Science Practice explores ethnography’s increasing use across the social sciences, beyond its traditional bases in social anthropology and sociology. It explores the disciplinary roots of ethnographic research within social anthropology, and contextualizes it within both field and disciplinary settings.The book is of two parts: Part one places ethnography as a methodology in ... Read more

    $82.99 USD