Case Study and Case Records: towards a contemporary history of education

Stenhouse, Lawrence

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“…Greenbank draws on Stake (1995) and Stenhouse (1978) to outline an approach to interviews that allows for the individual voices of each interviewee unfettered by a rigid interview schedule and that also allows for the individual context and combination of interviewee, interviewer and institution. Questions, as in Stenhouse, take the form of an 'interview guide'.…”

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Contextualised approaches to widening participation: a comparative case study of two UK universities

Butcher¹,

Corfield²,

Rose-Adams³

2012

wide particip lifelong learn

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This article reports on institutional research at two contrasting UK universities, each with different foci in relation to widening participation (WP). The researchers sought to explore senior staff perspectives on the WP agenda at a time of unprecedented uncertainty and turmoil in the UK higher education sector. The research consisted primarily of interview data from university leaders responsible strategically for WP activity. The findings offer a nuanced narrative of the policy and practice of widening participation at two contrasting universities. Researchers found that the WP discourse itself is perceived as confused and discredited. Viewing 'widening participation students' as a homogenised group risks both the benefits of differentiated responses through discipline or subject areas and the benefits of more student-centred measures of success.

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Section: Methodsologymentioning

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Contextualised approaches to widening participation: a comparative case study of two UK universities

Butcher¹,

Corfield²,

Rose-Adams³

2012

wide particip lifelong learn

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“…Likewise, Stenhouse (1978) noted that the process of publicising findings validated teachers in their roles as classroom researchers.…”

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“…As well, the focus of control over what counts as valid educational knowledge is shifted from external agencies to the schools and individual teachers classrooms. This shift encourages teachers to search for new insights in the dynamic situations they face in classrooms (Stenhouse, 1978). Ebbutt & Elliot (1985) refer to this shift as the bottom-up view of teachers work and they validate the importance of this view in terms of its contribution to the professional status of teachers.…”

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Taming the monsters: practical intimacies in a third grade costa rican classroom

Roberts¹

1999

Educational Action Research

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This article documents a school-based action research study conducted during the 1997 Costa Rican academic year in a third grade classroom. It contributes to international educational research as related to the intrinsic implications of relying on foreign published textbooks as the primary foundation of curriculum. Examination of the role of teachers as curriculum developers, as framed through the lens of a World Englishes Perspective is also a key consideration of the study. As well, the timeliness of the research contributes to the worth of findings, given the growth and importance of English as an international language. A classroom problem area pertained to the use of USA published textbooks for the study of language arts, science and reading.These texts did not follow the prior knowledge of students and the history of Costa Rica, nor support the cultural autonomy of students as individuals and as citizens of their communities. Implementation of changes included the recruitment of two bilingual, Spanish/English, Costa Rican college students to work in the classroom. They endorsed a model of English that served as a framework suitable for classroom use and for international communication. Art production projects were also infused in the curriculum and used as a springboard for complex tasks of language learning. The art provided an avenue for students to be successful with their work and activities associated with the English language. Textbooks became resources, rather than the central form of curricular material. At the end of the school year, student changes in motivation for working with language education, and the increased quality and number of their products were viewed as signposts, which were used to rethink how, as a class, students had begun to negotiate ownership of the English language.Classroom teachers responsibilities for curriculum, and for the creative possibilities of curriculum beyond the expectations of administration and other stakeholders, have generated contentious issues for many years. These issues transcend national borders and are confrontational in countries where stakeholders push to participate in the global community, yet struggle Amy Roberts 346 to maintain cultural and national identity and autonomy. Given this, the following article documents a school-based action research study conducted during one academic year in a Costa Rican classroom. In Costa Rica, the emphasis on English language education exemplifies the problematic associated with using educational content and materials that transcend national borders. The study contributes to international educational research as related to the intrinsic implications of relying on foreignpublished textbooks as the primary foundation of curriculum. From this respect, examination of the role of teachers as curriculum developers, as framed through the lens of a World Englishes Perspective is also a key consideration. On a more micro-level, involving my role as the classroom researcher and teacher, the study served as a pract...

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“…Lawrence Stenhouse (1975Stenhouse ( , 1978Stenhouse ( , 1981, a great pioneer of anti-racist education and democratiser of educational research, whose life and work responded powerfully to these issuesfor example, in his advocacy of teacher research -died prematurely in 1982, as did the left-of-centre Labour leader John Smith in 1994. These events cumulatively created the 'landslide' opportunity for New Labour (1997Labour ( -2007 to pursue with 'breathtaking efficiency' the process of neoliberalisation of the United Kingdom economy (Harvey, 2005(Harvey, , 2010Harris, 2007), begun in the Thatcher years and now all-pervasive in higher education, threatening what many feel to be its core values.…”

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Painting the Police Station Blue: The Almost Impossible Argument for Poetry in the Elite Educational Research Journals

Perselli

2011

Power and Education

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Case Study and Case Records: towards a contemporary history of education

Cited by 133 publications

References 6 publications

Contextualised approaches to widening participation: a comparative case study of two UK universities

Contextualised approaches to widening participation: a comparative case study of two UK universities

Taming the monsters: practical intimacies in a third grade costa rican classroom

Painting the Police Station Blue: The Almost Impossible Argument for Poetry in the Elite Educational Research Journals

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