Research Methodologies in the 'south'

by Halai, Anjum; William, Dylan

• ISBN13: 9780199063567
• ISBN10: 0199063567
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-05-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

ANJUM HALAI is an Associate Professor and Head Research at Aga Khan University Institute for Educational Development (AKU-IED), Eastern Africa. For her contribution to the development of a research culture at AKU-IED and leading innovative research projects she was awarded the AKU Annual Merit Award, 'Excellence in Scholarship of Discovery' for 2003-04. Her research interest is in multi-lingualism and social justice issues in mathematics.

DYLAN WILIAM is Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at Institute of Education, University of London. From 1996 to 2001 he was the Dean and Head of the School of Education at King's College London, and from 2001 to 2003, he served as Assistant Principal of the College. In 2003 he moved to the USA, as Senior Research Director at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, NJ. In 2006 he returned to the UK as Deputy Director of the Institute of Education, University of London.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
1. Researching Education Research Methodologies in the South: an introdcutory discussion
Anjum Halai
2. Research, Researchers and Researching in the "South"
Renuka Vithal
3. Disruptions and Data: the politics of doing mathematics education research in South Africa
Renuka Vithal
4. Education for What? Discourses and research in the South
Anil Khamis
5. Researching Very Different Societies: an impossible task?
Richard Pring
6. Who Pays the Price? The ethics of vulnerability in research
Rashida Qureshi
7. Ethnographic Field Methods in Research with Women: field experiences from Pakistan
Almina Pardhan
8. Auto/biographical Research in the South: a lived experience
Ayesha Bashiruddin
9. Mathematics Education between Utopia and Reality: examining research in contexts of conflict, poverty and violence
Paola Valero and Alexandre Pais
10. Politics and Practice of Action Research
Rana Hussain and Anjum Halai
11. Undertaking Research on Early Childhood in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Hasina Banu Ebrahim and Helen Penn
12. The Power and Politics of Studying Impact of Educational Reforms in South
Roshni Kumari, Razia Fakir Mohammad, and Nilofar Vazir
13. Logic, Observation, Representation, Dialectic and Ethical Values: what counts as evidence in educational research?
Dylan Wiliam
14. Global South Afterward-
Michael Nettles
Contributors
Index