Scale in education research: towards a multi-scale methodology

Noyes, Andrew (2013) Scale in education research: towards a multi-scale methodology. International Journal of Research and Method in Education, 36 (2). pp. 101-116. ISSN 1743-727X

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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.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/715041
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
Keywords: scale, space, human geography, methodology
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Education
Identification Number: 10.1080/1743727X.2012.683648
Depositing User: Noyes, Andrew
Date Deposited: 07 Dec 2014 23:26
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 16:36
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/27779

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