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Soltis, Jonas F., "On the Nature Educational Research," Educational Researcher, 13(December, 1984), 5-10.*, Jonas F. Soltis

Annotation: Contrasts empirical, interpretive, critical, and normative inquiry in education.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

 

Somekh, Bridget, Action Research: A Methodology for Change and Development. Maidenhead, Berks, UK: Open University Press, 2006., Bridget Somekh

Annotation: Describes the author's involvement as an action researcher in a series of projects over 25 years; discusses the way the projects were conceived and carried out; comments on problems and what was learned about doing action research.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Action Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Spindler, George, ed., Doing the Ethnography of Schooling: Educational Anthropology in Action . New York: Holt, Rhinehart and Winston, 1982., George Spindler

Annotation: Gives a thorough treatment of various aspects of ethnography of schooling by a variety of authors.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Spindler, George, and Lorie Hammond, eds., Innovations in Educational Ethonography: Theory, Methods, and Results. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006., George Spindler and Lorie Hammond

Annotation: Discusses theoretical issues in ethnographic research with examples; gives illustrative applications of ethnographic approaches to educational settings.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Teacher Knowledge

 

Spindler, George, and Louise Spindler, eds., Interpretive Ethnography of Education at Home and Abroad . Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1987., George Spindler and Louise Spindler

Annotation: Provides 19 articles on comparative and cross-cultural studies, the methods involved, with examples.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Spradley, James, and David McCurdy, The Cultural Experience: Ethnography in Complex Society . Chicago: Science Research Associates, 1972., James Spradley and David McCurdy

Annotation: Treats the major dimensions of studying cultural experience and includes twelve reports by students.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Stablile, Micheline, "Problamatizing Education Inclusion through Heuristic Inquiry," pp. 35-47 in Noreen B. Garman and Maria Piantanida, eds., The Authority to Imagine: The Struggle toward Representation in Dissertation Writing. New York: Peter Lang, 2006., Micheline Stablile

Annotation: Describes five cycles of heuristic inquiry as employed in a study of inclusion.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Hermeneutic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Exceptional Education, Qualitative Research

 

Stake, Robert E., "An Evolutionary View of Educational Improvement," pp. 89-102 in Ernest House, ed., New Directions in Educational Evaluation . Philadelphia: Falmer, 1986.*, Robert E. Stake

Annotation: Conceptualizes a view of evaluation and educational improvement that honors naturalistic generalizations formed from the experiencing done by practitioners.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Change
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Evaluative Inquiry, Action Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Stake, Robert E., "Case Study," pp. 275-285 in John Nisbet, Jacquetta Megarny and Stanley Nisbet, eds., Research, Policy, and Practice: World Yearbook of Education 1985 . London: Kogan Page, 1985., Robert E. Stake

Annotation: Presents the case for doing case studies and describes the features of case study inquiries.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Stake, Robert E., Multiple Case Study Analysis. New York: Guilford, 2006., Robert E. Stake

Annotation: Shows how to design, analyze, and report studies that address common issues across a group of cases; illustrated using cases from three Eastern European countries.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Evaluative Inquiry, Ethnographic Inquiry, Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Qualitative Research, Program Audit/Evaluation, Comparative Curriculum

 

Stake, Robert E., "Objectives, Priorities, and Other Judgemental Data," Review of Educational Research, 40(April, 1970), 181-212., Robert E. Stake

Annotation: Discusses objectives as judgmental data and methods and issues in studying them.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry, Evaluative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Curriculum as Environment

 

Stake, Robert E., "Program Evaluation, Particularly Responsive Evaluation," pp. 72-87; 195-196 in W. B. Dockrell and David Hamilton, eds., Rethinking Educational Research . London: Hodder and Stroughton, 1980.*, Robert E. Stake

Annotation: Describes a responsive evaluation model as it applies to program evaluation.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Evaluation
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Evaluative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Program Audit/Evaluation

 

Stake, Robert E., Qualitative Research: Studying How Things Work. New York: The Guilford Press, 2010., Robert E. Stake

Annotation: Gives practical guidance on doing qualitative research studies along with thorough rationales for producing quality work at every step of the process from setting the research question to gathering data to reviewing literature to interpreting evidence to writing the report and more; uses excerpts from Stake's own work and that of his students as examples of what is discussed; a down-to-earth text, very readable, and one that constantly provokes thought.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Qualitative Research, Knowledge Generation

 

Stake, Robert E., "To Evaluate an Arts Program," pp. 13-38 in Robert E. Stake, ed., Evaluating the Arts in Education: A Responsive Approach . Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill, 1975.*, Robert E. Stake

Annotation: Spells out the attributes and procedures related to doing "responsive evaluation," and includes an interview with its originator.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Evaluative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Stake, Robert E., and Deborah J. Trumbull, "Naturalistic Generalizations," Review Journal of Philosophy and Social Science, 7(Nos. 1 & 2, 1982), 1-12.*, Robert E. Stake and Deborah J. Trumbull

Annotation: Describes the nature of naturalistic generalizations as distinguished from formal generalizations.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Comparisons Among Inquiry Modes

 

Staller, Karen M., Ellen Block, and Pilar S. Horner, "History of Methods in Social Science Research," pp. 25-51 in Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Patricia Leavy, eds., Handbook of Emergent Methods. New York: The Guilford Press, 2008., Karen M. Staller, Ellen Block, and Pilar S. Horner

Annotation: Reports a study of the development of social science research methods from the 1960s to the present; charts the emergence of postmodern methods, globalization and internet impact on methods, and the troubling role of the researcher, of theory, and of technology in methods; discusses the blurring of the lines between humanistic and social science approaches.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Stehr, Nico, and Volker Meja, "The Classical Sociology of Knowledge Revisited," Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, 4(September, 1982), 33-50., Nico Stehr and Volker Meja

Annotation: Reviews the elements of classical sociology of knowledge that bear revisiting following the advent of the new sociology of knowledge.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Stenhouse, Lawrence, "Towards a Research Model," pp. 123-141 in his An Introduction to Curriculum Research and Development . London: Heinemann, 1975.*, Lawrence Stenhouse

Annotation: Discusses and illustrates research by teachers on a curriculum project in race relations.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Decision-making Processes
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Action Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Teacher Research, Comparative Curriculum, Social Studies

 

Stiegelbauer, Suzanne M., "The Dimensions of Implementation: From Plans to Action," pp. 112-133 in Stephen P. Gordon, ed., Collaborative Action Research: Developing Professional Learning Communities. New York: Teachers College Press, 2008., Suzanne M. Stiegelbauer

Annotation: Gives a synthesis of research on the implementation process as it relates to action research projects; is cast in practical language.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry, Action Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Implementation, Knowledge Linkage, Knowledge Generation

 

Strauss, Anselm, and Juliet Corbin. Basics of Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory Procedures and Techniques. Newbury Park,CA: Sage, 1990., Anselm Strauss and Juliet Corbin

Annotation: Describes coding procedures for analyzing qualitative data and developing grounded theory.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry, Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Qualitative Research

 

Strauss, Anselm L., Qualitative Analysis for Social Scientists . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987., Anselm L. Strauss

Annotation: Describes how to develop theory through several forms of analysis of qualitative data.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry, Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Qualitative Research

 

Strike, Kenneth, "An Epistemology of Practical Research," Educational Researcher, 8(January, 1979), 10-16.*, Kenneth Strike

Annotation: Provides a model of practical research that utilizes the methods of practical reasoning and integrates facts and values.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Relation of Curriculum Research to Practice
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Deliberative Inquiry, Action Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Curriculum Deliberation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

 

Strike, Kenneth, and George Posner, "Types of Synthesis and Their Criteria," pp. 345-362 in Spencer A. Ward and Linda J. Reed, eds., Knowledge Structure and Use: Implications for Synthesis and Interpretation . Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983., Kenneth Strike and George Posner

Annotation: Presents a classification scheme with examples for various types of syntheses (inductive, dialectics, interdisciplinary, and quasi-synthesis), along with a discussion of applicable criteria.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Stubbs, Michael, Discourse Analysis: The Sociolinguistic Analysis of Natural Language . Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1983., Michael Stubbs

Annotation: Provides a step-by-step process for conducting discourse analysis.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Content Analysis
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Discourse Analysis

 

Stufflebeam, Daniel L., and Anthony J. Shinkfield, Evaluation Theory, Models, and Applications. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007., Daniel L. Stufflebeam

Annotation: Presents a thorough, comprehensive guide to the discipline of evaluation; covers 26 different approaches to doing evaluations classified within five major types; illustrates in detail seven of the best approaches; provides guidance on all practical aspects of evaluation work.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Evaluative Inquiry
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Program Audit/Evaluation, Knowledge Generation

 

Sullivan, Edmund V., A Critical Psychology: Interpretation of the Personal World. New York: Plenum, 1984., Edmund V. Sullivan

Annotation: Gives a critical interpretation of the personal world; treats the method of emancipatory praxis.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Curriculum as Experience, Psychology and Curriculum

 

Sullivan, Edmund V., Sergio Martinic, and Horatio Walker, "Critical Interpretation: A Comparison of Two Ethnographies," Phenomenology +Pedagogy, 5(No. 3, 1987), 242-267.*, Edmund V. Sullivan, Sergio Martinic, and Horatio Walker

Annotation: Compares two ethnographies on various methodological and interpretive dimensions.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Suri, Harsh, and David Clarke, "Advancements in Research Synthesis Methods: From a Methodologically Inclusive Perspective," Review of Educational Research, 79(No. 1, 2009),395-430., Harsh Suri and David Clarke

Annotation: Highlights features of a methodologically inclusive research synthesis where connections can be made across interpretive, participatory, and critical lines.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Tabachnick, B. Robert, "Needed for Teacher Education: Naturalistic Research that is Culturally Responsive," Teaching and Teacher Education, 5(No. 2, 1989), 155-163.*, B. Robert Tabachnick

Annotation: Examines the advantages and problems in using qualitative research methods in studying teaching, learning, and schooling.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Teacher Education, Qualitative Research

 

Tamir, Pinchas, "Content Analysis Focusing on Inquiry," Journal of Curriculum Studies, 17(January-March, 1985), 87-94., Pinchas Tamir

Annotation: Shows how content analysis may be used in teaching science as inquiry.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Content Analysis
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Science

 

Tamir, Pinchas, "Evaluation and Curriculum Development," in Pinchas Tamir, ed., The Role of Evaluation in Curriculum Development . London: Croom Helm, 1985.*, Pinchas Tamir

Annotation: Conceptualizes a model for curriculum development and evaluation.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry, Evaluative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Tammivaara, Julie, and D. Scott Enright, "But Where is the Hypothesis? A Guide to Reading and Evaluating Ethnographic Studies," Educational Foundations, 1(Fall, 1986), 106-125., Julie Tammivaara and D. Scott Enright

Annotation: Gives guidance on interpeting ethnographic studies in education.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Critique and Utilization of Curriculum Research and Inquiry
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Tanner, Daniel, "Curriculum History," pp. 412-420 in Harold E. Mitzel, ed., Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Fifth edition. New York: Macmillan Free Press, 1982.*, Daniel Tanner

Annotation: Reviews the history of curriculum study, theory, and reform.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Knowledge Generation

 

Tanner, Daniel, "The Social Consequences of Bad Research," Phi Delta Kappan, 79(January, 1998), 344-349.*, Daniel Tanner

Annotation: Critiques selected research studies in education and discusses the consequences of doing research badly.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Critique and Utilization of Curriculum Research and Inquiry, Relation of Curriculum Research to Practice
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Practical Knowledge, Knowledge Utilization

 

Tanner, Laurel N., "Curriculum History: Whither Thou Goest," pp. 58-60 in Murry R. Nelson, ed., Papers of the Society for the Study of Curriculum History: 1980 and 1982 . DeKalb, IL: College of Education, Northern Illinois University, 1983., Laurel N. Tanner

Annotation: Marks the fifth year of the SSCH with comments on the status and progress of work to date.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Research Domains and Structure, Defining Curriculum Research Questions
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Curriculum History

 

Taylor, Charles, "Interpretation and the Science of Man," pp. 101-131 in Fred R. Dallmayr and Thomas A. McCarthy, eds., Understanding and Social Inquiry . Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1977. Originally published in The Renewal of Metaphysics, 25(1971), 3-34, 45-51.*, Charles Taylor

Annotation: Presents the means and significance of intersubjective meanings and their interpretation.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Hermeneutic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Teitelbaum, Kenneth, "Curriculum Theorizing," pp. 127-131 in Joe L. Kincheloe and Danny Weil, eds., Critical Thinking and Learning: An Encyclopedia for Parents and Teachers. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004., Kenneth Teitelbaum

Annotation: Defines the nature, goals, and processes of curriculum theorizing.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses

 

Terhart, Ewald, "The Adventures of Interpretation: Approaches to Validity," Curriculum Inquiry, 15(Winter, 1985), 451-464., Ewald Terhart

Annotation: Discusses three types of interpretive research in education--ethnographic/descriptive, dialogical, and structuralist--and argues for validating each.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry, Hermeneutic Inquiry, Phenomenological Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Qualitative Research, Comparisons Among Inquiry Modes

 

Tesch, Renata, "Emerging Themes: The Researchers' Experience," Phenomenology+Pedagogy, 5(No. 3, 1987), 230-241.*, Renata Tesch

Annotation: Discusses the identification of themes and patterns in phenomenological data.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Phenomenological Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Thayer-Bacon, Barbara, and Diana Moyer, "Philosophical and Historical Research," pp. 139-156 in Kenneth Tobin and Joe L. Kincheloe, eds., Doing Educational Research: A Handbook. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2006., Barbara Thayer-Bacon and Diana Moyer

Annotation: Discusses the value and processes of doing philosophical and historical research in education.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Thelin, John R., "The Anatomy of Institutions: Historians and the Search for the Unwritten Constitution," pp. 66-70 in Craig Kridel, ed., Curriculum History . Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1989., John R. Thelin

Annotation: Discusses problems of writing histories of particular institutions of higher education.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Higher Education Curriculum

 

Thomas, Gary, "Changing Our Landscape of Inquiry for a New Science of Education," Harvard Education Review, 82(Spring, 2012), 226-51., Gary Thomas

Annotation: Argues that education research misunderstands the nature of scientific method; gives a revised view and urges the cultivation of a new education science that is a part of education practice.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry, Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism, Action Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Comparisons Among Inquiry Modes, Education as a Field of Study, Government Role in Educational Research & Development, Practical Knowledge

 

Thomas, Gary, Education and Theory: Strangers in Paradigms. New York: Open University Press, 2007., Gary Thomas

Annotation: Examines critically the tenacity with which education adheres to theory; chapter six explicitly critiques Strauss and Corwin's "grounded theory."

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses

 

Thomas, Thomas F., and William H. Schubert, "Recent Curriculum Theory: Proposals for Understanding, Critical Praxis, Inquiry, and Expansion of Conversation," Educational Theory, 47(Spring, 1997), 261-285.*, Thomas F. Thomas and William H. Schubert

Annotation: Reviews and critques three books-- Understanding Curriculum (Pinar, et al.), Curriculum for Utopia (Stanley), and Studying Curriculum (Goodson).

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Research Domains and Structure, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences, Relation of Curriculum Research to Practice, Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism, Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Classics of Curriculum Literature, Curriculum History, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

 

Tierney, William G., and Yvonna A. Lincoln, eds., Representation and the Text: Re-Framing the Narrative Voice. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997., William G. Tierney and Yvonna A. Lincoln

Annotation: Explores issues surrounding the writing of qualitative research as texts.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry, Narrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Qualitative Research

 

Tikunoff, William J., and John R. Mergendollar, "Inquiry as a Means to Professional Growth: The Teacher as Researcher," pp. 210-227 in Gary A. Griffin, ed., Staff Development, 82nd Yearbook of NSSE, Part II. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983., William J. Tikunoff and John R. Mergendollar

Annotation: Makes the case for inquiry done by teachers.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry, Action Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Teacher Research, Teaching/Learning Process, In-service Teacher Development

 

Tobin, Gerald A., and Cecily M. Begley, "Triangulation as a Method of Inquiry," Journal of Critical Inquiry into Curriculum and Instruction, 3(Winter, 2002), 7-11., Gerald A. Tobin and Cecily M. Begley

Annotation: Identifies six types of triangulation used in inquiry and discusses the merits and applications of these triangulation methods for ensuring trustworthiness of qualitative research findings.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Qualitative Research

 

Tobin, Kenneth, and Joe L. Kincheloe, eds., Doing Educational Research: A Handbook. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2006., Kenneth Tobin and Joe L. Kincheloe

Annotation: Contains descriptions and illustrations of doing ten different kinds of educational research that have the potential of changing education, not just studying it; also contains chapters on general issues related to doing these kinds of research.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Tom, Alan, "Disciplined Study of the Problems of Practice: An Alternative to Craft- or Discipline-Based Educational Inquiry," Educational Administration Quarterly, 23(May, 1987), 7-22.*, Alan Tom

Annotation: Proposes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of educational practice.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Defining Curriculum Research Questions, Curriculum Research Domains and Structure
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry, Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism, Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Comparisons Among Inquiry Modes

 

Tom, Alan R., "Inquiring into Inquiry-Oriented Teacher Education," Journal of Teacher Education , 36(September-October, 1985), 35-44., Alan R. Tom

Annotation: Presents several distinct kinds of inquiry within teacher education.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design,Curriculum Proposals in Coherent Form,Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis,Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry,Normative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Teacher Education

 

Torbert, William R., Creating a Community of Inquiry: Conflict, Collaboration, Transformation . New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1976., William R. Torbert

Annotation: Discusses the use of action research primarily in social psychology.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Action Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Torbert, William R., Learning from Experience: Toward Consciousness . New York: Columbia University Press, 1972., William R. Torbert

Annotation: Gives an experiential theory of instruction based on experience.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Action Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum as Experience, Knowledge Generation

 

Torbert, William R., "Why Educational Research Has Been So Uneducational: The Case for a New Model of Social Science Based on Collaborative Inquiry," pp. 141-151 in Peter Reason and John Rowan, eds., Human Inquiry . New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1981.*, William R. Torbert

Annotation: Describes collaborative inquiry approaches and assumptions.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Action Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

 

Toshakkori, Abbas, and Charles Teddlie, "The Past and the Future of Mixed Methods Research" pp. 671-701 in their Handbook of Mixed Methods in Social and Behavioral Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2003., Abbas Toshakkori and Charles Teddlie

Annotation: Discusses the utility, design issues, inferences , logistics, and fundamental principles related to mixed methods research; a related chapter by the same authors introduces this volume of 28 chapters on various methods of mixed methods research.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Toulmin, Stephen, "The Construal of Reality: Criticism in Modern and Postmodern Science," pp. 99-117 in W. J. T. Mitchell, ed., The Politics of Interpretation . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983., Stephen Toulmin

Annotation: Shows how humanistic inquiry operates in natural sciences too.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Phenomenological Inquiry, Hermeneutic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Science

 

Tripp, David H., "Case Study Generalization: An Agenda for Action," British Educational Research Journal, 11(No. 1, 1985), 33-43., David H. Tripp

Annotation: Puts forth an agenda for action regarding the uses of case study results.

Broad Topical Focus: Critique and Utilization of Curriculum Research and Inquiry, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Tripp, David H., "Socially Critical Action Research," Theory Into Practice, 29(Summer, 1990), 158-166., David H. Tripp

Annotation: Describes five characteristics of critical action research.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry, Action Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Tuckman, Bruce W., "A Proposal for Improving the Quality of Published Educational Research," Educational Researcher , 19(December, 1990), 22-24., Bruce W. Tuckman

Annotation: Provides a scheme for rating the quality of research manuscripts before publication.

Broad Topical Focus: Publication Outlets for Curriculum Research and Inquiry, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Critique and Utilization of Curriculum Research and Inquiry
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Tuthill, Doug, and Patricia Ashton, "Improving Educational Research Through Development of Educational Paradigms," Educational Researcher, 12(December, 1983), 6-14., Doug Tuthill and Patricia Ashton

Annotation: Discusses the competing paradigms of educational research and ways of resolving their differences.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines,Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis,Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

 

Tykociner, Joseph T., The Outline of Zetetics: A Study of Research and Artistic Activity. Urbana, IL: College of Engineering, University of Illinois, 1966. Available as ERIC Document ED 332 951., Joseph T. Tykociner

Annotation: Reviews and contrasts generic types of research domains, defines and distinguishes them, and shows their relationships.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry, Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Comparisons Among Inquiry Modes

 

Tykociner, Joseph T., "Zetetics and the Zetetic System of Knowledge," in his Outline of Zetetics . Urbana, IL: College of Engineering, University of Illinois, 1966. ERIC Document Reproduction Service ED 332 915 (1991).*, Joseph T. Tykociner

Annotation: Sets forth a system of knowledge with twelve primary areas and numerous subareas.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Defining Curriculum Research Questions
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Vagle, Mark D., Crafting Phenomenological Research. Walnut Creek,CA: Left Coast Press, 2014, Mark D. Vagle

Annotation: Presents a researcher-friendly introduction to the craft of doing phenomenological research; builds on the work of philosophical luminaries as well as three contemporary methodological approaches (Giorgi 2009 descriptive, van Manen 2001 hermeneutic, Dahlberg & Dahlberg, 2008 reflective); presents the author's own post-intentional approach along with practical guidelines and examples of phenomenological writing.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Phenomenological Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Qualitative Research

 

Vallance, Elizabeth, "Backward-Looking Criticism as a Forward-Looking Concept: Response to Walter Werner," Curriculum Inquiry, 10(Summer, 1980), 143-154., Elizabeth Vallance

Annotation: Contrasts reductive criticism with artistic criticism.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry, Aesthetic Inquiry and Curriculum Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Vallance, Elizabeth, "The Critic's Perspective: Some Strengths and Limitations of Aesthetic Criticism in Education," Curriculum Perspectives, 3(October, 1983), 23-27.*, Elizabeth Vallance

Annotation: Critiques the use of aesthetic criticism in educational studies.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Evaluation
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism, Aesthetic Inquiry and Curriculum Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Vallance, Elizabeth, "The Hidden Curriculum and Qualitative Inquiry as States of Mind," Journal of Education (Boston University), 162(Winter, 1980), 138-151.*, Elizabeth Vallance

Annotation: Shows how quanlitative inquiry can be used to study the hidden curriculum.

Broad Topical Focus: Defining Curriculum Research Questions, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Hidden Curriculum, Curriculum as Experience

 

van den Akker, Jan, "Building Bridges: How Research May improve Curriculum Policies and Classroom Practices," pp. 175-195 in Sheila M. Stoney, Ed., Beyond Lisbon 2010: Perspectives from Research and Development for Education Policy in Europe. CIDREE and NFER, 2010., Jan van den Akker

Annotation: Explores ways that design and development research (D&DR) can strengthen curriculum policy making and classroom practices; reiterates the author's 2003 conceptualization of curriculum and curriculum development strategies; sets out key features of curriculum design and development research (preliminary investigation, theoretical embedding, empirical testing, documentation, analysis and refection on process and outcomes, evaluation); gives general format that design principles derived through this process should take; encourages international sharing of curriculum D&DR findings.

Broad Topical Focus: Relation of Curriculum Research to Practice, Curriculum Develpment, Organizaion, Design, Curricuum Research Domains and Structure, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Development as Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Curriculum Development Strategies

 

van den Akker, Jan, "Principles and Methods of Development Research," pp. 1-14 in Jan van den Akker, Robert M. Branch, Kent Gustafson, Nienke Nieveen, and Tjeerd Plomp, eds., Design Approaches and Tools in Education and Training. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999., Jan van den Akker

Annotation: Defines and conceptualizes development research, compares this to other research approaches, discusses its methods and challenges.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Development as Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Curriculum Development Strategies

 

van den Akker, Jan, "The Potential of Development Research for Improving the Relation Between Curriculum Research and Curriculum Development," pp. 37-53 in Moritz Rosenmund, Anna-Verena Fries, and Werner Heller, eds., Comparing Curriculum-Making Processes. New York: Peter Lang, 2002., Jan van den Akker

Annotation: Describes the purposes and processes involved in doing development research and contrasts these with those of curriculum development at the practical level.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Development as Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Comparative Curriculum, Curriculum Development Strategies

 

Van den Akker, Jan, Keono Gravemeijer, Susan McKenney, and Nienke Nieveen, eds., Educational Design Research. New York: Routledge, 2006., Jan van den Akker, Keono Gravemeijer, Susan McKenney, and Nienke Nieveen

Annotation: Contains ten articles advocating and illustrating the use of design research in education as a form of developing products, practices, and policies.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Development as Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Curriculum Development Strategies, Materials Development and Evaluation

 

Vandenberg, Donald, "Researching Lived Experience: A Review Essay," Educational Theory , 42(Winter, 1992), 119-126.*, Donald Vandenberg

Annotation: Critiques a book by Max Van Manen on methods of phenomenological research.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism, Phenomenological Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Van Manen, Max, "Language of Deep Structure in Curriculum Inquiry," pp. 43-59 in Kenneth Reeder and Donald Wilson, eds., Language, Culture, and Curriculum . Vancouver: Center for the Study of Curriculum and Instruction, University of British Columbia, 1978., Manen Max Van

Annotation: Explains how to do phenomenological inquiry into the deep structure of curricular experience.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Phenomenological Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Curriculum as Experience

 

Van Manen, Max, "Linking Ways of Knowing with Ways of Being Practical," Curriculum Inquiry, 6(No. 3, 1977), 205-228.*, Manen Max Van

Annotation: Discusses the practical as effective control, as communicative understanding, and as critical reflection; lays out forms of knowledge related to each conception.

Broad Topical Focus: Relation of Curriculum Research to Practice, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis, Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Practical Knowledge, Comparisons Among Inquiry Modes

 

Van Manen, Max, "Objective Inquiry Into Structures of Subjectivity," The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 1(Winter, 1979), 44-64.*, Manen Max Van

Annotation: Demonstrates the use of situation analysis of life-world phenomena and implications for curriculum and teaching.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Phenomenological Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Van Manen, Max, "Phenomenological Pedagogy," Curriculum Inquiry, 12(Fall, 1982), 282-299.*, Manen Max Van

Annotation: Explicates a form of pedagogic competence that accounts for understanding the experiences of children and explains how phenomenological methods of research can elicit this understanding.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Phenomenological Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Conceptions of Teaching

 

Van Manen, Max, "Practicing Phenomenological Writing," Phenomenology+Pedagogy, 2(No. 1, 1984), 36-69.*, Manen Max Van

Annotation: Gives process through which one may write up phenomenological research.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Phenomenological Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Van Manen, Max, Researching Lived Experience: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy . Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990. Second edition with new Preface, London, Ontario: The Althouse Press, 1997., Manen Max Van

Annotation: Provides a thorough-going treatment of hermeneutic phenomenological research, reflection , and writing.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Phenomenological Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Van Manen, Max, "Theory of the Unique: Thoughtful Learning for Pedagogic Tactfulness," pp. 63-80 in Geoffrey Milburn and Robin Enns, eds., Curriculum Canada VI. Vancouver: CSCI, University of British Columbia, 1985., Manen Max Van

Annotation: Explains the theoretic basis of pedagogical tactfulness, introduces phenomenological research, and illustrates inquiry in this mode; followed by a response to this article.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Phenomenological Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Van Manen, Max, "The Phenomenology of Pedagogic Observation," Canadian Journal of Education, 4(March, 1979), 5-16.*, Manen Max Van

Annotation: Describes how phenomenological descriptions are constructed.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Phenomenological Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Van Manen, M. J. Max, "An Exploration of Alternative Research Orientations in Social Education," Theory and Research in Social Education, 3(No. 1, 1975), 1-28., Manen Van and M. J. Max

Annotation: Treats traditional, interpretive, and critical forms of research in social education.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Social Studies, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

 

Violas, Paul C., "Progressives and Revisionist History," pp. 34-38 in Laurel N. Tanner, ed., Papers of the Society for the Study of Curriculum History. University Park, PA: The Society, College of Education, Penn State University, 1981., Paul C. Violas

Annotation: Provides a revisionist historian's view of papers by progressives Butts, Caswell, and Leonard that precede this paper.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism, Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Curriculum History

 

Visscher-Voerman, Irene, Kent Gustafson, and Tjeerd Plomp, "Educational Design and Development: An Overview of Paradigms," pp. 15-28 in Jan van den Akker, Robert M. Branch, Kent Gustafson, Nienke Nieveen, and Tjeerd Plomp, eds., Design Approaches and Tools in Education and Training. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999., Irene Visscher-Voerman, Kent Gustafson, and Tjeerd Plomp

Annotation: Describes, analyzes, and compares four development paradigms (instrumental, communicative, pragmatic, and artistic); gives vignettes of each paradigm.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Development as Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Curriculum Development Strategies

 

Voithofer, Rick, "Designing New Media Educaiton Research: The Materiality of Data, Representation, and Dissemitation," Educational Researcher, 34(December, 2005),3-14., Rick Voithofer

Annotation: Discusses the uses of digital technologies in conducting education research; treats their potential for designing research questions, choosing appropriate forms for data collection, and choosing how to report results.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Knowledge Utilization, Qualitative Research, Comparisons Among Inquiry Modes

 

Wagner, Jon, "Ignorance in Educational Research: Or, How Can You Not Know That?" Educational Researcher, 22(June-July, 1993), 15-23., Jon Wagner

Annotation: Proposes the conceptualizing of research as a process of removing blank spots and blind spots rather than the search for truth.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General, Critique and Utilization of Curriculum Research and Inquiry, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry, Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Waks, Leonard J., "Nonbehavioral Goals: Investigating the Validity of the Two-Defect Argument," Curriculum Theory Network, 4(No.1, 1973/74), 37-42., Leonard J. Waks

Annotation: Points out the problems with behavioral goals in educational research and why scientific researchers have problems with nonnbehavioral goals.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design,Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism,Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Aims and Objectives

 

Waks, Leonard J., "Philosophy, Education, and the Doomsday Threat," Review of Educational Research, 39(December, 1969), 607-621., Leonard J. Waks

Annotation: Describes analytic philosophy and shows how it can be used in analysis of educational terms such as "teaching," "learning," "aims," and others.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Aims and Objectives, Teaching/Learning Process

 

Walberg, Herbert, "Quantification Reconsidered," pp. 369-402 in Edmund W. Gordon, ed., Review of Research in Education, 11(1984). Washington, DC: AERA, 1984., Herbert Walberg

Annotation: Justifies the use of quantitative research in education to obtain a summary of phenomena; many related theoretical and procedural issues are also addressed.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Walker, Decker F., "Methodological Issues in Curriculum Research," pp. 98-118 in Philip W. Jackson, ed., Handbook of Research on Curriculum. New York: Macmillan, 1992., Decker F. Walker

Annotation: Reviews writings on scientific and qualitative research methods in general and in curriculum, and proposes a method of formative curriculum research appropriate to use with practical curriculum problems.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Relation of Curriculum Research to Practice
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry, Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Walker, Decker F., "What Curriculum Research?" Journal of Curriculum Studies, 5(May, 1973), 58-72. Reprinted pp. 510-525 in James R. Gress and David E. Purpel, eds., Curriculum: An Introduction to the Field. Berkeley, CA: McCutchan, 1978.*, Decker F. Walker

Annotation: Identifies alternative research assumptions to the traditional empirical research assumptions.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Research Domains and Structure
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Normative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Comparisons Among Inquiry Modes

 

Walker, Decker F., and Jon Schaffarzick, "Comparing Curricula," Review of Educational Research, 44(Winter, 1974), 83-111. Reprinted pp. 412-441 in Arno A. Bellack and Herbert M. Kliebard, eds., Curriculum and Evaluation. Berkeley, CA: McCutchan, 1977.*, Decker F. Walker and Jon Schaffarzick

Annotation: Reviews studies that compare results of various subject curricula and draws implications from these results.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Evaluation
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Evaluative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, School Subjects

 

Walker, Rob, "Getting Involved in Curriculum Research: A Personal History," pp. 193-213 in Martin Lawn and Len Barton, eds., Rethinking Curriculum Studies . New York: Halsted Press, 1981., Rob Walker

Annotation: Presents typologies of classroom research and illustrates by referring to a study of the SAFARI project in England.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching, Curriculum Research Domains and Structure, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Classroom Observation & Research, Comparative Curriculum, Teacher Research

 

Walker, Rob, "Three Good Reasons for not Doing Case Studies in Curriculum Research," Journal of Curriculum Studies, 15(April-June, 1983), 155-165. Reprinted pp. 103-116 in Ernest House, ed., New Directions in Educational Evaluation. Philadelphia, PA: Falmer, 1986.*, Rob Walker

Annotation: Examines the reasons why case studies are often seen as weak forms of inquiry in curriculum studies and offers some arguments for their value.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism, Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Wallace, Mike, "A Historical Review of Action Research: Some Implications for the Education of Teachers in their Managerial Role," Journal of Education for Teaching, 13(No. 2, 1987), 97-115.*, Mike Wallace

Annotation: Reviews the historical development of action research and its use.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry, Action Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Classroom Observation & Research

 

Ward, Spencer A., "The Philosopher as Synthesizer," Educational Theory, 31(Winter, 1981), 51-72., Spencer A. Ward

Annotation: Discusses issues in synthesizing knowledge and the processes involved.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Ward, Spencer A., and Linda J. Reed, eds., Knowledge Structure and Use: Implications for Synthesis and Interpretation . Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983., Spencer A. Ward and Linda J. Reed

Annotation: Contains 20 chapters on every aspect of the topic; a thorough treatise on synthesizing research.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Knowledge Utilization

 

Warwick, Donald P., and Thomas F. Pettigrew, "Toward Ethical Guidelines for Social Science Research in Public Policy," pp. 335-368 in Daniel Callahan and Bruce Jennings, eds., Ethics, the Social Sciences, and Policy Analysis. New York City: Plenum Press, 1983., Donald P. Warwick and Thomas F. Pettigrew

Annotation: Discusses issues in using research in formulating public policy.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Ethical Issues in Curriculum

 

Wasser, Judith Davidson, and Liora Bresler,"Working in the Interpretive Zone: Conceptualizing Collaboration in Qualitative Research Teams," Educational Researcher, 25, (June/July, 1996), 5-15., Judith Davidson Wasser and Liora Bresler

Annotation: Reports an example and an analysis of collaborative interpretation within qualitative research projects.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Case Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Qualitative Research, Art Education

 

Watkins, John M., "A Postmodern Critical Theory of Research Use," Knowledge and Policy, 7( No. 4, 1994/1995), 55-78.*, John M. Watkins

Annotation: Explains critical realism as a perspective for viewing knowledge use; contrasts positivism, interpretivism, and critical perspectives as they have been employed in theories of knowledge creation, dissemination, and use.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Knowledge Utilization

 

Watson, Sandy White, Stacie Austin, and Jeremy Bell, eds., Conceptual Analysis of Curriculum Inquiry Methodologies. IGI Global, 2022., Sandy White Watson, Stacie Austin, and Jeremy Bell

Annotation: Contains 13 chapters describing a variety of inquiry methods useful in doing research in curriculum and teaching; provides introductory information on these 13 modes of inquiry suitable for introducing doctoral students to these methods; provides updated treatment of methods not presented side-by-side for several decades and including some newly formulated methods.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophcal Inquiry--Specuative Essay
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Comparisons Among Inquiry Modes

 

Wax, Rosalie, "How Does One Find and Work on a Problem?" pp. 157-177 in Edward Rose, ed., Forms and Formulations of Education . Lincoln, NE: Nebraska Curriculum Development Center, University of Nebraska, 1976., Rosalie Wax

Annotation: Explains the field work process and gives illustrations.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Defining Curriculum Research Questions
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Weaver-Hightower, Marcus B., "An Ecology Metaphor for Educational Policy Analysis: A Call to Complexity," Educational Researcher, 37(April, 2008), 153-167., Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower

Annotation: Presents a conceptualization of policy ecology and its uses in policy analysis in education.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

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