The issue of the relationship between educational research and policy making or practice has been a perennial concern. In Educational Research Martyn Hammersley deals with some basic and controversial assumptions about research and practice, including: * is there always conflict in the relationship between research and practice? * do increases in knowledge really lead to practical improvement? * is a review of research likely to be objective? * what effect does mass media involvement have in communicating the results of research? The author addresses the demands now being made on educational research against the background of the complex relationship between research and practice.
Martyn Hammersley is an emeritus professor of educational and social research at The Open University, UK. He has carried out research in the sociology of education and the sociology of the media. However, much of his work has been concerned with the methodological issues surrounding social enquiry. He has written several books including (with Paul Atkinson) Ethnography: Principles in Practice (fourth edition, Routledge, 2019), The Dilemma of Qualitative Method (Routledge, 1989), The Politics of Social Research (SAGE, 1995), Reading Ethnographic Research (second edition, Longman, 1997), Taking Sides in Social Research (Routledge, 2000), Educational Research, Policymaking and Practice, (London, Paul Chapman/SAGE, 2002), Questioning Qualitative Inquiry (SAGE, 2008), Methodology Who Needs It? (SAGE, 2011), The Myth of Research-Based Policy and Practice (SAGE, 2013), The Limits of Social Science (SAGE, 2014), and The Concept of Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Website: http://martynhammersley.wordpress.com/
Research and Evidence-Based Practice in Education An Assessment of David Hargreaves' Critique Why Research into Practice Does Not Go Some Questions about the Enlightenment Function of Educational and Social Inquiry Research and Practice, Two Worlds for Ever at Odds? (written with Roger Gomm) If the Social World Is How Qualitative Researchers Say It Is, What Impact Can Their Work Have on Policy Making and Practice? Diversity or Control in Educational Research? Varieties of Social Research A Typology A Review of Reviews Structure and Function in Reviews of Educational Research (written with Peter Foster)
`Hammersley has produced a remarkably complete analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of educational research. I believe the analysis to be fair to all parties' - Lewis Elton, British Journal of Educational Technology
