Researching Education Policy: Ethical and Methodological Issues

Part 1 Theory, Scholarship and Research into Education Policy: Where we are now - reflections on the sociology of education policy, Charles D. Raab Coming to terms with research - the contract business, May Pettigrew Scholarship and sponsored research - contradiction, continuum or complementary activity?, Robert G. Burgess. Part 2 The Ethics of Research into Education Policy: The constraints of neutrality - the 1988 Education Reform Act and feminist research, Beverley Skeggs, Researching inside the state - issues in the interpretation of elite interviews, Stephen J. Ball Sex, lies and audiotape - interviewing the education policy elite, Jenny Ozga and Sharon Gewirtz. Part 3 Methodological Perspectives on Research into Education Policy: Ethnography, policy-making and practice in education, Martyn Hammersley Students' secondary school careers - research in a climate of moving perspectives, Gwen Wallace, Jean Rudduck and Susan Harris.