Nicolina Montesano Montessori

Rob de Lange

Hans Schuman

Deze herziene druk van dit veel gebruikte studie- en praktijkboek bevat een aantal aanpassingen en uitbreidingen. In het hoofdstuk over onderzoeksstrategieën is het experiment toegevoegd. In de dagelijkse beroepspraktijk van onderwijs of gezondheidszorg wordt niet gauw een (zuiver) experiment opgezet, maar in de geschiedenis van de sociale wetenschappen zijn goed opgezette (quasi)experimenten van grote invloed geweest. Ook is een bespreking van implementatieonderzoek toegevoegd. Goed onderzoek doen is één ding, het implementeren van de resultaten ervan in levensechte situaties is iets heel anders. Op vele maatschappelijke gebieden (gezondheidszorg, onderwijs, bestuur, veiligheid enz.) wordt in toenemende mate de noodzaak gevoeld om zich naast onderzoek ook bezig te houden met het invoeren van de uitkomsten in de praktijk. Verder is de beschrijving van actieonderzoek gewijzigd en aangepast aan nieuwe inzichten. De oorspronkelijke visie van de auteurs op actieonderzoek is niet gewijzigd. Er is een bespreking over gestandaardiseerde toetsen toegevoegd (CITO, algemene intelligentietests, PISA enz.). Zoals zal blijken, spelen zij een belangrijke rol in de verschillende beroeps- en adviespraktijken en zijn hierover opnieuw fundamentele discussies ontstaan. In het hoofdstuk over kwantitatieve analyse is de t-toets toegevoegd. In de praktijk van het kwantitatieve onderzoek is dit een instrument dat goede diensten bewijst, wanneer het gaat om het vergelijken van groepen en het aantonen van effecten van ingrepen of programma’s. Ook is een behandeling van factoranalyse en de analyse van de betrouwbaarheid van meetschalen (Cronbach’s Alpha) toegevoegd. Ten slotte is aan het boek een website gekoppeld die oefenmateriaal bevat voor de kwantitatieve, statistische analyse, waarmee lezers zich kunnen bekwamen in het zelfstandig uitvoeren van dergelijke analyses. Deze website bevat bestanden waarmee de lezer kan werken, alsmede instructieve stap-voor-stap uitwerkingen van de opgaven, in zowel het krachtige SPSS als Excel.

Praktijkgericht onderzoek voor reflectieve professionals

Michael Farrelly

Jane Mulderrig

Critical Policy Discourse Analysis bridges the literature on critical discourse analysis (CDA) and critical policy analysis to provide a practical guide on how to combine these major approaches to critical social science. The volume gives a clear introduction to concepts and analytical procedures for critical policy discourse analysis, and includes ten international case studies in which authors explain and critically reflect upon the methods and theories that they have used to successfully integrate CDA with critical policy studies across a diverse range of policy issues. Case studies are used to explore issues in economics, health, education, crisis management, the environment, language and energy policy. Analysing these through discursive methodological approaches in the traditions of critical discourse analysis, social semiotics and discourse theory, this book connects this discursive methodology systematically to the field of critical policy studies. This is an essential read for researchers wishing to practically combine methods of critical discourse analysis with critical policy studies. It provides key insights for politics scholars looking to gain a more in-depth understanding of the impact and analysis of discourse.

Critical Policy Discourse Analysis

Cok Bakker

"This volume, the result of four years of work performed by the combined research groups of Utrecht University (Faculty of Humanities) and the HU Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (Faculty of Education), focuses on the central theme of ‘Normative Professionalization’. Drawing on a wide variety of scholars including Hannah Arendt, Gert Biesta, Harry Kunneman, Donald Schön and Chris Argyris, and engaging with professionalism, ethics, virtue and morality, this book builds the argument that learning to deal with complexity supports not only education but the personal development of teachers and the improvement of society and democracy as well. This volume presents research on a broad range of topics such as worldview education, co-teaching, moral authorship, traditional-reform perspectives on education, the discourse on citizenship, teacher education, and the question how to link religion and education. The research chapters explain the theoretical lenses and methodological approaches which have been employed to get a grip on complexity. The results have been interpreted in light of the concepts of horror complexitatis, amor complexitatis and dolor complexitatis. Guided by detailed research accounts of worldview descriptions provided by students and teachers, this framework has been enriched with the notion of a passio complexitatis. In the concluding chapters, the book advocates for an improved balance between the normative and instrumental professionalization of teachers, in order to create space for the improvement of pedagogical relations and processes and to reintroduce the moral dimensions of education. The claim throughout this book is that allowing for complexity in education – even going so far as to embrace it – is vital for the improvement of education, and a prerequisite for more authentic relationships (on the micro level) and the maintenance of a well-functioning democracy and a balanced society (on the macro level). This book is of interest to researchers and educators who are interested in normative professionalization, to qualitative and practice oriented researchers, to teachers and managers in primary, secondary and professional education, and to the wider public which is concerned with the significance of education for the development of a stable and sustainable society."

From Horror to Passion

Complexity in Education

George Lengkeek

How to open up spaces to make education more meaningful? The concept of space can involve educational interactions, relationships, contents and other relevant aspects relating to this purpose. The book presents three perspectives to engage in opening up spaces. It empowers pupils, students, and teachers to develop as unique individuals, better relate to the communities and cultural traditions to which they belon, and to develop new visions, understandings, and ways of living. This volume is the result of the search of a number of educational professionals on how to open up spaces to make education more meaningful. The opened spaces involve educational interactions, relationships, contents and other relevant aspects relating to this purpose. The book presents three salient perspectives to engage in this envisioned path. It empowers pupils, students, and teachers to: Develop as unique individuals. This process includes engaging with personal feelings, developing a personal way of thinking and judging, and articulating one’s own voice in relation to others and the specific social context. Relate to the communities and cultural traditions to which they (want to) belong, and to interact with others who may belong to different cultural traditions. Develop new visions, understandings, and ways of living in order to lead a sustainable life within the potential of our eco-system, together with the myriads of other life forms on planet earth. These interconnected perspectives are elaborated in the domains of Bildung, worldview education, mathematics, physical sciences and language. The volume provides an inviting new perspective, which holds that students and teachers are already entangled in worldly tensions and issues, from the very start of their entering into education. Given this fact, it is a joint educational challenge to question and make sense of the complexities of today’s world. As such, the spaces that are elaborated in this publication are identified as spaces for praxis, by envisioning education as a means to actively improve ourselves and our contexts. The authors of this research compilation belong to the (network of the) combined research group Normative Professionalism / Life Orientation of the Utrecht University and the HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. They are all professionals who combine intensive involvement in educational practice with practice-oriented research.

Opening up spaces for meaningful engagement in educational praxis

This book provides a series of contemporary and international policy case studies analysed through discursive methodological approaches in the traditions of critical discourse analysis, social semiotics and discourse theory. This is the first volume that connects this discursive methodology systematically to the field of critical policy analysis and will therefore be an essential book for researchers who wish to include a discursive analysis in their critical policy research.

Nicolina Montesano Montessori

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