Understanding Geographical and Environmental Education
1st Edition
Published on 7. December 1995
320 pages
978-1-84714-090-6 (ISBN)
Description
These papers aim to provide a substantial review of the literature pertaining to a comprehensive range of traditional and contemporary research paradigms and research methods. The book is designed as a reference work for novice researchers in the fields of geographical and environmental education.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-84714-090-6 (9781847140906)
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Michael C. Williams is Professor in the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His publications include The Realist Tradition and the Limits of International Relations (2005) and Culture and Security: Symbolic Power and the Politics of International Security
(2007)
(2007)
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- The Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. Positivism and the Quantitative Tradition in Geographical and Environmental Education Research
- 2. Interpretive Approaches to Geographical and Environmental Education Research
- 3. The Critical Tradition in Research in Geographical and Environmental Education Research
- 4. Cross-cultural Approaches in Geographical and Environmental Education
- 5. Grounded Theory: Defying the Dominant Paradigm in Environmental Education Research
- 6. An International Perspective on Research in Geographical Education
- 7. An Eclectic Approach to Qualitative Research Design in Geographical Education
- 8. Technical Interest in Curriculum Development: A Programme of Map Skills
- 9. Interviews
- 10. Questionnaire Survey in Research in Environmental and Geographical Education
- 11. Case Study Research
- 12. Action Research
- 13. Discourse Analysis: A Method for Deconstruction
- 14. Textbook Research in Geographical and Environmental Education
- 15. 'Audience-centred' Teaching and Children's Writing in Geography
- 16. Matching Practice and Vision: Evaluating Global Education
- 17. Policy-making in Geographical and Environmental Education: The Research Context
- 18. Understanding and Improving School Geography: The Training of Beginning Teachers
- 19. Assessment in Geographical Education: A Review of Research
- 20. Raising Attainment in Geography: Prospects and Problems
- 21. Researching the History of Geographical Education
- 22. Partial Truths: Feminist Perspectives on Ends and Means
- 23. The Challenge of Postmodernism
- 24. Facilitating Research in Geographical and Environmental Education
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
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