Postpositivism and educational research /

• Phillips, D. C 1938-
• Burbules, Nicholas C.

• Education -- Research -- Philosophy
• Positivism

• Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,

• Philosophy, theory, and educational research

• 0847691217 (alk. paper)
• 0847691225 (pbk. : alk. paper)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

• International theory positivism and beyond
• Auguste Comte and positivism
• Ethnography for education
• Educational research in practice making sense of methodology
• Ethnography and qualitative design in educational research
• Researching your professional practice doing interpretive research
• Educational research undone the postmodern embrace
• Teachers as researchers qualitative inquiry as a path to empowerment
• Paradigm and ideology in educational research the social functions of the intellectual
• Philosophy of educational research
• Fundamentals of educational research
• Qualitative research in education focus and methods
• origins of intellect Piagets theory
• Academic discourse linguistic misunderstanding and professorial power
• Key ideas in educational research
• Doing qualitative educational research a personal guide to the research process
• Classroom ethnography empirical and methodological essays
• Living and relating an introduction to phenomenology
• Quantitative methods in educational research the role of numbers made easy
• Doing educational research a guide to first time researchers
• Research and the teacher a qualitative introduction to school based research
• Becoming critical education knowledge and action research
• Case study research in education a qualitative approach
• Research design qualitative quantitative and mixed methods approaches
• Qualitative data analysis explorations with NVivo
• Case study method key issues key texts
• Introduction to phenomenology
• Action learning and action research improving the quality of teaching and learning
• Human resource development
• Fundamentals of educational research
• Qualitative analysis for social scientists
• Case study research in educational settings
• Educational research contemporary issues and practical approaches
• Communities of practice learning meaning and identity
• art of case study research
• Research for business marketing and education
• Doing qualitative research a practical handbook
• Research methods in education
• Doing research in the real world
• Transforming qualitative information thematic analysis and code development
• foundations of social research meaning and perspective in the research process
• Basics of qualitative research techniques and procedures for developing grounded theory
• Quantity and quality in social research
• introduction to social constructionism
• Qualitative researching
• Qualitative data analysis an expanded sourcebook
• Questionnaire design interviewing and attitude measurement
• Real world research a resource for social scientists and practitioner researchers