ANDREW NOYES ANDREW.NOYES@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Education
Scale in education research: towards a multi-scale methodology
Noyes, Andrew
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Abstract
This article explores some theoretical and methodological problems concerned with scale in education research through a critique of a recent mixed-method project. The project was framed by scale metaphors drawn from the physical and earth sciences and I consider how recent thinking around scale, for example in ecosystems and human geography might offer helpful points and angles of view on the challenges of thinking spatially in education research. Working between the spatial metaphors of ecology scholars and the critiques of the human geographers, for example the hypercomplex social space in Lefebvre’s political-economic thinking and the fluid, simultaneous, multiple spatialities of Massey’s post-structuralism, I problematize space and scale in education research. Interweaving these geographical ideas with Giddens’ structuration and Bourdieu’s theory of practice, both of which employed what might be termed scale-bridging to challenge social science’s entrenched paradigms, leads me to reconsider what is possible and desirable in the study of education systems. Following the spatial turn in the social sciences generally, there is an outstanding need to theorise multi-scale methodology for education research.
Citation
Noyes, A. (2013). Scale in education research: towards a multi-scale methodology. International Journal of Research and Method in Education, 36(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727X.2012.683648
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | May 21, 2013 |
Deposit Date | Dec 7, 2014 |
Publicly Available Date | Dec 7, 2014 |
Journal | International Journal of Research and Method in Education |
Print ISSN | 1743-727X |
Electronic ISSN | 1743-7288 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 36 |
Issue | 2 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727X.2012.683648 |
Keywords | scale, space, human geography, methodology |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/715041 |
Publisher URL | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1743727X.2012.683648#.VGct042HSSo |
Additional Information | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in International Journal of Research and Method in Education on 21/05/2012, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1743727X.2012.683648 |
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