Educational Research

Martyn Hammersley is an emeritus professor of educational and social research at The Open University, UK. He has carried out research in the sociology of education and the sociology of the media. However, much of his work has been concerned with the methodological issues surrounding social enquiry. He has written several books including (with Paul Atkinson) Ethnography: Principles in Practice (fourth edition, Routledge, 2019), The Dilemma of Qualitative Method (Routledge, 1989), The Politics of Social Research (SAGE, 1995), Reading Ethnographic Research (second edition, Longman, 1997), Taking Sides in Social Research (Routledge, 2000), Educational Research, Policymaking and Practice, (London, Paul Chapman/SAGE, 2002), Questioning Qualitative Inquiry (SAGE, 2008), Methodology Who Needs It? (SAGE, 2011), The Myth of Research-Based Policy and Practice (SAGE, 2013), The Limits of Social Science (SAGE, 2014), and The Concept of Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Website: http://martynhammersley.wordpress.com/

PART ONE: THE NATURE OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH History of Educational Research Qualitative Research Traditions Self-Doubt and Soft Data Social and Technical Trajectories in Ethnographic Fieldwork Objectivity in Educational Research Subjectivity and Objectivity An Objective Inquiry. PART TWO: DOING EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH How to Think About Causality Increasing the Generlizability of Qualitative Research Problems of Sociological Fieldwork A Review Of The Methodology Of Hightown Grammar Primary Teachers Talking A Reflexive Account of Longitudinal Research PART THREE: EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND PRACTICE Educational Theory What is an Educational Practice? Action Research The Politics of Method From Leftist Ethnography to Educative Research On the Teacher as Researcher