The Routledge Doctoral Student`s Companion Getting to Grips With Research in Education and the Social Sciences

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Why the Doctoral Companions.........1 Doctoral Education in Context ..........9 2. Becoming and Being a Doctoral Student.......27 Ignorance in Educational Research ..........31 When Qualitative meets Quantitative Conversations about the Nature of Knowledge ...........43 Interdisciplinarity and Trandisciplinarity Diverse purpose of Research : Theory-Oriented, Situation - Oriented, Policy - Oriented ...............52 The Necessity and Violence of theory ...........68 Bringing theory to doctoral Research .........76 Seeking the Single thread the Conceptual Quest ........85 Theory and Narrative in the Production of Knowledge .....96 Making sense of Supervision deciphering feedback .........107 Entering the Gates of the Elect obtaining the Doctorate in Education in South Africa .......116 Weaving the Threads of Doctoral Research Journeys..........128 3. Coming to Terms with Research Practice ..........143 It`s Been Said before and we`ll say it Again - research is writing .....149 Constructing research questions: Focus , Methodology and Theorisation ........161 Research Questions What`s worth asking and why ..........172 There is no golden key overcoming problems with data analysis in Qualitative research .......183 Dealing with data analysis ..............200 Researching with large datasets : learning to think big when small is beautiful ............213 Doing data Analysis ........221 Argumentation and the Doctoral thesis : Theory and Practice .......231 Writing Research .......244 Guilty Knowledge .........256 Dangerous Reflexivity .........270 Emotions and being a Doctoral Student ...........283 4. Making a Contribution to Knowledge .........295 Quality agendas doctoral work ......299 Generation practitioner knowledge through practitioner action research moving from local to public Knowledge .........311 Coyote and Raven talk about equivalenc of Other /ed Knowledges in Research ...............323 Knowledge in Context whose knowledge and for what context .........335 Open access and the Ongoing transformation of Scholarly Publishing : A guide for Doctoral Students .................344 Inner university, Knowledge workers and Liminality ...........356 Global Students for Global Education Research ........368 The Impact of Research on Education policy the Relevance for Doctoral Researchers ...........377 Last words..........390