Cover -- Qualitative Studies Series -- The Compleat Observer? -- Contents -- 1 Problems and Pitfalls -- Foreground and Background -- Even Though We Aren't Reading for Meaning! -- Postscript -- 2 'You Are Here!' -- The Split in Social Sciences: Positivism and Naturalism -- Educational Ethnography -- 3 'Inside Out or Outside In?' -- The Key to Entry -- Personal Preparation -- Postscript -- 4 The Ethics of Entry -- Covert Research -- Gamekeeper Turning Poacher -- Proxy Observation -- Postscript -- 5 Validity and Invalidity Benefits -- Validity and Pragmatism -- Validity and Naturalistic Enquiry -- Postscript -- 6 Checking It Out -- The Memory of the Video of the Methodology of the Research? -- The Galton Position? -- The Elliott Position? -- Why can checklists be Good Things? -- Observation Counts -- Of Sociograms -- Stages of observation -- Postscript -- 7 Seeing Through The Interview -- The Case for Tape Recording -- Weakness of Tape Recording -- The Case for Note Taking -- Weaknesses in Note Taking -- Generating, Processing and Reporting Interview Data: Two Profiles -- Postscript -- 8 Research in the Technological Sense -- Electronic Ears -- Electronic Eyes -- 'Make Sure It's on the Screen, can be Heard and can be Seen' -- The Kingdom of the Blind -- Under the Surface -- Two-faced Communication -- 9 Seven Types of Creativity: Observation And Data Analysis -- Imagination and Codification -- Research for Action -- Creative Analysis of Observational Data -- Seven Types of Creativity in Data Analysis -- Postscript -- 10 Closely Observed Training -- Conceptual Framework for Observation Workshops -- An Example of Training for Observation -- 11 Administering Poison: Reporting Observations -- Postscript -- 12 Tales of Future Past -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
This text is based on a national survey of primary schools in England and Wales. It examines the health of children in schools at a time of increased class sizes and cutbacks in staff and support services. The effect the school building may have on
Analysis
Primary schools Management
Children Health
Great Britain
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-265) and index
