02865cam a2200493Ma 4500 ocn608119887 OCoLC 20171024103229.0 m d cr un||||||||| 050812s2003 ne ob 000 0 eng d 9781849502108 (electronic bk.) : �70.95 ; � 102.95 ; $131.95 1849502102 (electronic bk.) : �70.95 ; � 102.95 ; $131.95 0762310189 (hbk.) 9780762310180 (hbk.) IL4I4 eng IL4I4 ZJC LC71 .I55 2003 JHMP bicssc JNK bicssc EDU001000 bisacsh EDU037000 bisacsh 39 379 22 Investigating educational policy through ethnography / [electronic resource] edited by Geoffrey Walford. Amsterdam : JAI, 2003. 1 online resource (vi, 255 p.) Studies in educational ethnography, 1529-210X ; v. 8 Includes bibliographical references. Within the United Kingdom questions about the relevance of educational research and its relationship to policy have recently been the centre of a prolonged, public and sometimes acrimonious debate.The chapters in this book illustrate the ability of ethnographic work to assist in understanding the effects of educational policies to gradually influence the policy discourse. The book includes studies of policy initiatives at the local level that show the extent to which an intended change actually occurred in practice, others where actual change occurred, but there were unintended consequences as well as those planned by the policy, and others that illuminate the contradictions within the original policy itself. Chapters focus on a diversity of topics such as the ideology of educational 'success', politics and school mathematics, ITC teaching, sports coaching, basic skills provision for offenders, second language learning, ESOL teaching, primary teachers work, and the teaching of reading and spelling. Description based on print version record. Education and state. Educational anthropology. Education Political aspects. Ethnology. Physical anthropology & ethnography. bicssc Organization & management of education. bicssc Education Administration General. bisacsh Education Research. bisacsh Walford, Geoffrey. Print version: Investigating educational policy through ethnography. Amsterdam ; Boston : JAI, 2003 0762310189 (DLC) 2003045519 (OCoLC)51900277 Studies in educational ethnography ; v. 8. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/1529-210X/8 ddc BK 222869 222869