Documentary Research: In Education, History and the Social Sciences

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Routledge, Apr 30, 2004 - Education - 160 pages
Documentary sources have become increasingly neglected in education and the social sciences. This book seeks to emphasise their potential value and importance for an understanding of modern societies, while also recognising their limitations, and explores their relationship with other research strategies.
This up-to-date examination of how to research and use documents analyzes texts from the past and present, considering sources ranging from personal archives to online documents and including books, reports, official documents, works of fiction and printed media.
This comprehensive analysis of the use of documents in research includes sections covering:
* analysing documents
* legal frameworks and ethical issues
* records and archives
* printed media and literature
* diaries, letters and autobiographies.
 

Contents

Reading Between the Lines
1
Social Research and Documentary Studies
10
Doing Documentary Research
25
Records and Archives
44
Printed Media and Literature
64
Diaries Letters and Autobiographies
86
Connections and Conclusions
109
Bibliography
113
Index
122
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Gary McCulloch is Brian Simon Professor of History of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London.

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