Methods and Critical Approaches
A research group of the School of Education.
The major and distinctive feature of this research theme in the School of Education at Durham University is a shared concern with problematising the nature of educational research itself. This is from a methodological perspective where the development of new methods and approaches in visual methods, visual and performing arts in education research and in the development of Qualitative Comparative Analysis. It is also from a philosophical perspective which engages with concepts and values in education in order to challenge orthodoxy or support the development of new approaches in education.
Research Projects
- European Policy Network on School Leadership
- Exploring and evaluating the use of configurational methods in large n contexts: transitions in the English and German educational systems
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Addressing Methodological Challenges, with particular reference to survey data
- Thinking about Learning: Learning to Learn in...,