Researching the Powerful in Education

Abstract

A new focus on the powerful, Geoffrey Walford Part 1 Researching central government policy-makers: researching Thatcherite education policy, Geoff Whitty and Tony Edwards ministers and mandarins - educational research in elite settings, John Fitz and David Halpin the Lords' will be done - interviewing the powerful in education, J. Daniel McHugh researching the powerful in education and elsewhere, Maurice Kogan ethics and power in a study of pressure group politics, Geoffrey Walford. Part 2 Interpreting interviews: political interviews and the politics of interviewing, Stephen J. Ball the power discourse - elite narratives and policy formation, Peter W. Cookson Jr. Part 3 Feminist perspectives: a feminist approach to researching the powerful in education, Roslyn A. Mickelson researching the locally powerful - a study of school governance, Rosemary Deem. Part 4 Historical perspectives: research perspectives on the World Bank, Phillip W. Jones interviewing the education policy elite, Sharon Gewirtz and Jenny Ozga writing school history as a former participant - problems in writing the history of an elite school, Susan F. Semel. Reflections on researching the powerful, Geoffrey Walford.

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