Peter Foster
Biographic Data
| ID | 3660520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Foster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Foster |
| SIGNATURE | FOSTER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1818-5886 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1934 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Short-term growth in children with growth disorders
(1) The growth spurts and stases seen in normal children are also observed in those with growth disorders, (2) different growth disorders have variable effects on the spurt stasis model of childhood growth, (3) catch-up growth on GH in children with GHD was achieved by increasing the amplitude of the growth spurts and reducing the time spent in stasis
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Case Study Method: Key Issues, Key Texts
Introduction PART ONE: INTRINSIC CASE STUDY AND GENERALIZABILITY The Case Study Method in Social Inquiry - Robert E Stake The Only Generalization Is - Yvonna S Lincoln and Egon G Guba There Is No Generalization Generalizability and the Single Case Study - Robert Donmoyer Increasing the Generalizability of Case Study Research - Janet Ward Schofield Case Study and Generalization - Roger Gomm, Martyn Hammersley and Peter Foster PART TWO: CASE STUDY …
Case Studies as Spurious Evaluations: The Example of Research on Educatioal Inequalities
This article notes that much case study research focusing on educational inequalities is evaluative in character, in the sense that it draws value conclusions. Moreover, the evaluative character of these conclusions is often implicit. We argue that practical evaluation of this kind is inappropriate in research reports. We then discuss the legitimate role that values can play in case study research, notably in providing the basis for identifying i…
Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Impact’: A Methodological Assessment of Teacher Research Sponsored by the Teacher Training Agency
A Review of Reviews: Structure and function in reviews of educational research
Reviews are one of the main means by which the findings of educational research are communicated to audiences outside the research community. In this article, we look at some aspects of the production of reviews in the light of this function. Attention is given to issues relating to the initiation of reviews, the definition of the field to be covered, the coverage and treatment of relevant research, and the drawing of conclusions. The discussion …
Mozart's Requiem: Historical and Analytical Studies, Documents, Score
Education and training
Books
Barry Troyna, Racism and Education. Research Perspectives, Buckingham: Open University Press, 1993, 158 pp., £37.50 h.b., £12.99 p.b. Mal Leicester, Race for a Change in Continuing and Higher Education, Buckingham: Open University Press with The Society for Research into Higher Education, 1993, 142 pp., £35.50 h.b., £12.99 p.b. Paul Hockenos, Free to Hate: The Rise of the Right in Post‐Communist Eastern Europe, London: Routledge, 1993, 332 pp., £…
The uses of 'ethnic data' in education
Education and training
Methodological purism’ or ‘a defence against hype'? Critical readership in research in ‘race’ and education
Some Problems in Establishing Equality of Treatment in Multi-Ethnic Schools
What Are Connolly's Rules? A Reply to Paul Connolly
This paper is a response to the critique by Connolly (in this issue) of my study of policy and practice in multicultural and anti‐racist education in a multiethnic inner‐city comprehensive school
Equal Treatment and Cultural Difference in Multi‐ethnic Schools: A critique of the teacher ethnocentrism theory
This paper considers claims that students from minority ethnic backgrounds are treated less favourably than their white peers in schools because their teachers make negative, ethnocentric judgements of their behaviour. The paper challenges the empirical basis of these claims and the implicit model of good practice on which they are based. It goes on to examine some of the implications for teacher practice of this discussion. The aim is to try to …
Case Still Not Proven: A reply to Cecile Wright
This paper is a reply to the response by Cecile Wright to my critique of her study of two comprehensive schools which formed part of the broader study entitled Education for Some
Cases Not Proven: An evaluation of two studies of teacher racism
In recent years a number of studies conducted in schools have claimed to provide evidence of the existence of racism amongst teachers, and practices within schools which significantly disadvantage many ethnic minority students. Unfortunately, there has been a tendency to accept such studies rather uncritically, without questioning the nature of the evidence they present to support their conclusions. In this paper I examine two such studies from a…
The Politics of Industrialism
Cases Not Proven: An evaluation of two studies of teacher racism
In recent years a number of studies conducted in schools have claimed to provide evidence of the existence of racism amongst teachers, and practices within schools which significantly disadvantage many ethnic minority students. Unfortunately, there has been a tendency to accept such studies rather uncritically, without questioning the nature of the evidence they present to support their conclusions. In this paper I examine two such studies from a…
Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Impact’: A Methodological Assessment of Teacher Research Sponsored by the Teacher Training Agency
Some Problems in Establishing Equality of Treatment in Multi-Ethnic Schools
Equal Treatment and Cultural Difference in Multi‐ethnic Schools: A critique of the teacher ethnocentrism theory
This paper considers claims that students from minority ethnic backgrounds are treated less favourably than their white peers in schools because their teachers make negative, ethnocentric judgements of their behaviour. The paper challenges the empirical basis of these claims and the implicit model of good practice on which they are based. It goes on to examine some of the implications for teacher practice of this discussion. The aim is to try to …
Case Studies as Spurious Evaluations: The Example of Research on Educatioal Inequalities
This article notes that much case study research focusing on educational inequalities is evaluative in character, in the sense that it draws value conclusions. Moreover, the evaluative character of these conclusions is often implicit. We argue that practical evaluation of this kind is inappropriate in research reports. We then discuss the legitimate role that values can play in case study research, notably in providing the basis for identifying i…
Methodological purism’ or ‘a defence against hype'? Critical readership in research in ‘race’ and education
The Politics of Industrialism
Cases Not Proven: An evaluation of two studies of teacher racism
In recent years a number of studies conducted in schools have claimed to provide evidence of the existence of racism amongst teachers, and practices within schools which significantly disadvantage many ethnic minority students. Unfortunately, there has been a tendency to accept such studies rather uncritically, without questioning the nature of the evidence they present to support their conclusions. In this paper I examine two such studies from a…
Case Still Not Proven: A reply to Cecile Wright
This paper is a reply to the response by Cecile Wright to my critique of her study of two comprehensive schools which formed part of the broader study entitled Education for Some
What Are Connolly's Rules? A Reply to Paul Connolly
This paper is a response to the critique by Connolly (in this issue) of my study of policy and practice in multicultural and anti‐racist education in a multiethnic inner‐city comprehensive school
Equal Treatment and Cultural Difference in Multi‐ethnic Schools: A critique of the teacher ethnocentrism theory
This paper considers claims that students from minority ethnic backgrounds are treated less favourably than their white peers in schools because their teachers make negative, ethnocentric judgements of their behaviour. The paper challenges the empirical basis of these claims and the implicit model of good practice on which they are based. It goes on to examine some of the implications for teacher practice of this discussion. The aim is to try to …
Education and training
Methodological purism’ or ‘a defence against hype'? Critical readership in research in ‘race’ and education
Some Problems in Establishing Equality of Treatment in Multi-Ethnic Schools
Education and training
Books
Barry Troyna, Racism and Education. Research Perspectives, Buckingham: Open University Press, 1993, 158 pp., £37.50 h.b., £12.99 p.b. Mal Leicester, Race for a Change in Continuing and Higher Education, Buckingham: Open University Press with The Society for Research into Higher Education, 1993, 142 pp., £35.50 h.b., £12.99 p.b. Paul Hockenos, Free to Hate: The Rise of the Right in Post‐Communist Eastern Europe, London: Routledge, 1993, 332 pp., £…
The uses of 'ethnic data' in education
Mozart's Requiem: Historical and Analytical Studies, Documents, Score
A Review of Reviews: Structure and function in reviews of educational research
Reviews are one of the main means by which the findings of educational research are communicated to audiences outside the research community. In this article, we look at some aspects of the production of reviews in the light of this function. Attention is given to issues relating to the initiation of reviews, the definition of the field to be covered, the coverage and treatment of relevant research, and the drawing of conclusions. The discussion …
Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Impact’: A Methodological Assessment of Teacher Research Sponsored by the Teacher Training Agency
Case Study Method: Key Issues, Key Texts
Introduction PART ONE: INTRINSIC CASE STUDY AND GENERALIZABILITY The Case Study Method in Social Inquiry - Robert E Stake The Only Generalization Is - Yvonna S Lincoln and Egon G Guba There Is No Generalization Generalizability and the Single Case Study - Robert Donmoyer Increasing the Generalizability of Case Study Research - Janet Ward Schofield Case Study and Generalization - Roger Gomm, Martyn Hammersley and Peter Foster PART TWO: CASE STUDY …
Case Studies as Spurious Evaluations: The Example of Research on Educatioal Inequalities
This article notes that much case study research focusing on educational inequalities is evaluative in character, in the sense that it draws value conclusions. Moreover, the evaluative character of these conclusions is often implicit. We argue that practical evaluation of this kind is inappropriate in research reports. We then discuss the legitimate role that values can play in case study research, notably in providing the basis for identifying i…
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Short-term growth in children with growth disorders
(1) The growth spurts and stases seen in normal children are also observed in those with growth disorders, (2) different growth disorders have variable effects on the spurt stasis model of childhood growth, (3) catch-up growth on GH in children with GHD was achieved by increasing the amplitude of the growth spurts and reducing the time spent in stasis
Sociology (15 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Ethnic group (5 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (4 works)