Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Theorising Educational Research -- The Contested Nature of Educational Research -- Educational Knowledge -- Mathematical Modelling -- Theory into Practice -- Disciplinary Knowledge -- School Effectiveness Research -- Education Policy -- Biography and Auto-biography -- Researching 'Race' and 'Ethnicity' -- Post-modernism -- Afterthoughts: Changing Knowledge of Relatively Unchanging Entities -- Notes -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

Although the literature of social research covers a vast range of material, there has been little on the role of social theory in educational research. In this respect, David Scott's book covers an important gap in the market, as it focuses on the centrality of social theory in a variety of empirical projects. The volume covers a range of conceptual and theoretical discussions and subsequently applies these concepts to our analysis of empirical studies. As a consequence, it is a volume that deserves to be read widely by students and researchers alike.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.