Keith Morrison
Biographic Data
| ID | 3941867 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith Morrison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith |
| FAMILY NAME | Morrison |
| SIGNATURE | MORRISON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5205-4639 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Teaching and learning with older adults: Research ethics, risk analysis, and covert research
This article reports a case study of older adults learning English in China. It indicates how, founded on consequentialist ethics, risk analysis, and safeguarding, it was decided to use covert research, drawing on the confluence of risk analysis, risk evaluation, risk management, safeguarding, research ethics, and important contextual and cultural features. Ethical principles of nonmaleficence, beneficence, safeguarding, and protection were addre…
Waldorf early childhood education: From the West to the East
Research Methods in Education
Research Methods in Education
A follow-up bereavement service: ‘Completing the Patient Pathway’
The article describes an initiative, The Bereavement Care Follow up Service (BCFS) in Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Trust which offers brief intervention and support for relatives following the death of a loved one in hospital. The service includes sending a letter of condolence, and offering an opportunity to talk to a member of the team involved in the care of their relative. It presents its historical context, its pertinence to grie…
Mapping Subsurface Archaeology with SAR
SubSAR is a new scheme for mapping subsurface features with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) at large stand‐off distances applicable to airborne and satellite measurements. This is in sharp contrast to current techniques, where discrimination relies on close‐proximity measurement of the scene, usually with a ground‐based system. The scheme discriminates between surface and subsurface returns using a novel application of differential SAR interferome…
Searching for causality in the wrong places
The paper raises difficulties for causation and causal inferences in social research, including counterfactuals, transitivity, inference in probabilistic causation, and manipulating and controlling variables. It suggests limits to causal modelling in understanding causality and causal processes in social research. Problems with randomization in social research are raised. Causal modelling, premised on a simplistic and linear view of causation, si…
School inspection in small states and territories: An overview and case study of Macau
This paper reviews school inspection systems in small states and territories (SSTs), indicating tensions, challenges and sensitivities that relate to their small size. A qualitative case study is presented of the new school inspection system in Macau, a post‐colonial, small territory facing issues experienced in other SSTs. Macau's inspection system is contextualized within its decentralized, developing schooling system and local sensitivities, p…
Educational Philosophy and the Challenge of Complexity Theory
Complexity theory challenges educational philosophy to reconsider accepted paradigms of teaching, learning and educational research. However, though attractive, not least because of its critique of positivism, its affinity to Dewey and Habermas, and its arguments for openness, diversity, relationships, agency and creativity, the theory is not without its difficulties. These are seen to lie in terms of complexity theory's nature, status, methodolo…
Research Methods in Education
This fully updated sixth edition of the international bestseller Research Methods in Education covers the whole range of methods currently employed by educational research at all stages. It is divided into five main parts: the context of educational research; planning educational research; styles of educational research; strategies for data collection and researching; and data analysis. The book also contains references to a comprehensive dedicat…
Sensitive educational research in small states and territories: The case of Macau
This paper explores the sensitivities of conducting educational research in small states and territories, where the very act of conducting research, aside from its purposes or focuses, is itself a sensitive matter. The paper takes a ‘critical case study’ of Macau and examines cultural, educational, political, micro‐political, interpersonal and practical issues, overlaid by characteristics of Chinese culture, that must be factored into the plannin…
Structuration theory, habitus and complexity theory: Elective Affinities or Old Wine in New Bottles
This paper examines similarities and differences between structuration theory, habitus and complexity theory, as theories of social change. The paper suggests that structuration theory and habitus can theorize change, but that complexity theory offers a more complete theory of change because it focuses on social production rather than reproduction. Although there are elective affinities between structuration theory, habitus and complexity theory,…
Research Methods in Education
This is a new edition of one of our best-selling textbooks. The authors have thoroughly updated the fourth edition and included more text on current developments in research practice, action research, developments in ICT, questionnaire design, ethnographic research, conducting needs analysis, constructing and using tests, observational methods, reliability and validity, ethical issues and curriculum research.The entire text has been redesigned to…
Pour une réforme du système éducatif à Macao
Wilderness as the Kingdom of God
The Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition has a spirituality that gives rise to ecotheological reflections. The reflections are couched in existential terminology describing mystical experience as well as historical and ecological praxis. The reflections have a realist theology of the Body of Christ considered to comprise of the heavenly or uncreated, and the earthly or created. The ecotheology developed in this paper interprets a realist theology…
Ideology, Linguistic Capital and the Medium of Instruction in Hong Kong
This paper examines the links between linguistic capital, cultural capital, linguistic imperialism and the use of English as the medium of instruction (MOI) in Hong Kong. It suggests that the notion of linguistic imperialism in Hong Kong, whilst useful for analysing practices in the early days of the colonial period, is superseded by the notion of linguistic capital, though neither presents a complete analysis of the MOI issue in Hong Kong. The p…
When Marketisation Does Not Improve Schooling: The case of Macau
For centuries Macau has experienced extended market principles for schooling, with very limited state intervention in education, and only a recent history of regarding schooling as a public good. This paper suggests that laissez‐faire market principles have failed to provide high quality schooling in Macau and that considerable state intervention is required to ensure that education develops as a public good in Macau. The case is made for a ‘mixe…
Developing reflective practice in higher degree students through a learning journal
The development of reflective practice through the keeping of a learning journal by full-time and part-time students on taught modular higher degree courses in education is investigated. Two models for reflecting on personal, academic, professional and evaluative development are outlined, guidelines for the content of learning journals are indicated and their contributions to notions of student ‘empowerment ̊s, recorded through a learning journal…
Enhancing Quality in Assessment
Introduction - Wynne Harlen Issues and Approaches to Quality Assurance and Quality Control in Assessment - Wynne Harlen Approaches to Quality Assurance and Control in Six Countries - Patricia Broadfoot Quality in External Assessment - David Satterly Quality in Teacher Assessment - Caroline Gipps The Quality of Assessment in Further Education in Scotland - Harry Black Quality Assurance, Teacher Assessments and Public Examinations - Richard Daugher…
Uniformity and Diversity in Assessment: An international perspective and agenda
Planning and Accomplishing School-Centred Evaluation
Patterns of Educational Integration
Bringing Progressivism into a Critical Theory of Education
This paper argues for the theoretical and practical possibilities of applying a ‘critical theory’ of education to British primary schools. It traces the series of misconceptions and misinterpretations of progressive education which, coupled with the neglect of its own emancipatory potential, has allowed it to be discredited by right‐wing and left‐wing politics. Re‐establishing a fairer reading of its central tenets and coupling this with the deve…
Educational Philosophy and the Challenge of Complexity Theory
Complexity theory challenges educational philosophy to reconsider accepted paradigms of teaching, learning and educational research. However, though attractive, not least because of its critique of positivism, its affinity to Dewey and Habermas, and its arguments for openness, diversity, relationships, agency and creativity, the theory is not without its difficulties. These are seen to lie in terms of complexity theory's nature, status, methodolo…
Ideology, Linguistic Capital and the Medium of Instruction in Hong Kong
This paper examines the links between linguistic capital, cultural capital, linguistic imperialism and the use of English as the medium of instruction (MOI) in Hong Kong. It suggests that the notion of linguistic imperialism in Hong Kong, whilst useful for analysing practices in the early days of the colonial period, is superseded by the notion of linguistic capital, though neither presents a complete analysis of the MOI issue in Hong Kong. The p…
Structuration theory, habitus and complexity theory: Elective Affinities or Old Wine in New Bottles
This paper examines similarities and differences between structuration theory, habitus and complexity theory, as theories of social change. The paper suggests that structuration theory and habitus can theorize change, but that complexity theory offers a more complete theory of change because it focuses on social production rather than reproduction. Although there are elective affinities between structuration theory, habitus and complexity theory,…
Sensitive educational research in small states and territories: The case of Macau
This paper explores the sensitivities of conducting educational research in small states and territories, where the very act of conducting research, aside from its purposes or focuses, is itself a sensitive matter. The paper takes a ‘critical case study’ of Macau and examines cultural, educational, political, micro‐political, interpersonal and practical issues, overlaid by characteristics of Chinese culture, that must be factored into the plannin…
When Marketisation Does Not Improve Schooling: The case of Macau
For centuries Macau has experienced extended market principles for schooling, with very limited state intervention in education, and only a recent history of regarding schooling as a public good. This paper suggests that laissez‐faire market principles have failed to provide high quality schooling in Macau and that considerable state intervention is required to ensure that education develops as a public good in Macau. The case is made for a ‘mixe…
Developing reflective practice in higher degree students through a learning journal
The development of reflective practice through the keeping of a learning journal by full-time and part-time students on taught modular higher degree courses in education is investigated. Two models for reflecting on personal, academic, professional and evaluative development are outlined, guidelines for the content of learning journals are indicated and their contributions to notions of student ‘empowerment ̊s, recorded through a learning journal…
Searching for causality in the wrong places
The paper raises difficulties for causation and causal inferences in social research, including counterfactuals, transitivity, inference in probabilistic causation, and manipulating and controlling variables. It suggests limits to causal modelling in understanding causality and causal processes in social research. Problems with randomization in social research are raised. Causal modelling, premised on a simplistic and linear view of causation, si…
Bringing Progressivism into a Critical Theory of Education
This paper argues for the theoretical and practical possibilities of applying a ‘critical theory’ of education to British primary schools. It traces the series of misconceptions and misinterpretations of progressive education which, coupled with the neglect of its own emancipatory potential, has allowed it to be discredited by right‐wing and left‐wing politics. Re‐establishing a fairer reading of its central tenets and coupling this with the deve…
Bringing Progressivism into a Critical Theory of Education
This paper argues for the theoretical and practical possibilities of applying a ‘critical theory’ of education to British primary schools. It traces the series of misconceptions and misinterpretations of progressive education which, coupled with the neglect of its own emancipatory potential, has allowed it to be discredited by right‐wing and left‐wing politics. Re‐establishing a fairer reading of its central tenets and coupling this with the deve…
Patterns of Educational Integration
Uniformity and Diversity in Assessment: An international perspective and agenda
Planning and Accomplishing School-Centred Evaluation
Enhancing Quality in Assessment
Introduction - Wynne Harlen Issues and Approaches to Quality Assurance and Quality Control in Assessment - Wynne Harlen Approaches to Quality Assurance and Control in Six Countries - Patricia Broadfoot Quality in External Assessment - David Satterly Quality in Teacher Assessment - Caroline Gipps The Quality of Assessment in Further Education in Scotland - Harry Black Quality Assurance, Teacher Assessments and Public Examinations - Richard Daugher…
Developing reflective practice in higher degree students through a learning journal
The development of reflective practice through the keeping of a learning journal by full-time and part-time students on taught modular higher degree courses in education is investigated. Two models for reflecting on personal, academic, professional and evaluative development are outlined, guidelines for the content of learning journals are indicated and their contributions to notions of student ‘empowerment ̊s, recorded through a learning journal…
When Marketisation Does Not Improve Schooling: The case of Macau
For centuries Macau has experienced extended market principles for schooling, with very limited state intervention in education, and only a recent history of regarding schooling as a public good. This paper suggests that laissez‐faire market principles have failed to provide high quality schooling in Macau and that considerable state intervention is required to ensure that education develops as a public good in Macau. The case is made for a ‘mixe…
Ideology, Linguistic Capital and the Medium of Instruction in Hong Kong
This paper examines the links between linguistic capital, cultural capital, linguistic imperialism and the use of English as the medium of instruction (MOI) in Hong Kong. It suggests that the notion of linguistic imperialism in Hong Kong, whilst useful for analysing practices in the early days of the colonial period, is superseded by the notion of linguistic capital, though neither presents a complete analysis of the MOI issue in Hong Kong. The p…
Wilderness as the Kingdom of God
The Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition has a spirituality that gives rise to ecotheological reflections. The reflections are couched in existential terminology describing mystical experience as well as historical and ecological praxis. The reflections have a realist theology of the Body of Christ considered to comprise of the heavenly or uncreated, and the earthly or created. The ecotheology developed in this paper interprets a realist theology…
Research Methods in Education
This is a new edition of one of our best-selling textbooks. The authors have thoroughly updated the fourth edition and included more text on current developments in research practice, action research, developments in ICT, questionnaire design, ethnographic research, conducting needs analysis, constructing and using tests, observational methods, reliability and validity, ethical issues and curriculum research.The entire text has been redesigned to…
Pour une réforme du système éducatif à Macao
Structuration theory, habitus and complexity theory: Elective Affinities or Old Wine in New Bottles
This paper examines similarities and differences between structuration theory, habitus and complexity theory, as theories of social change. The paper suggests that structuration theory and habitus can theorize change, but that complexity theory offers a more complete theory of change because it focuses on social production rather than reproduction. Although there are elective affinities between structuration theory, habitus and complexity theory,…
Sensitive educational research in small states and territories: The case of Macau
This paper explores the sensitivities of conducting educational research in small states and territories, where the very act of conducting research, aside from its purposes or focuses, is itself a sensitive matter. The paper takes a ‘critical case study’ of Macau and examines cultural, educational, political, micro‐political, interpersonal and practical issues, overlaid by characteristics of Chinese culture, that must be factored into the plannin…
Research Methods in Education
This fully updated sixth edition of the international bestseller Research Methods in Education covers the whole range of methods currently employed by educational research at all stages. It is divided into five main parts: the context of educational research; planning educational research; styles of educational research; strategies for data collection and researching; and data analysis. The book also contains references to a comprehensive dedicat…
Educational Philosophy and the Challenge of Complexity Theory
Complexity theory challenges educational philosophy to reconsider accepted paradigms of teaching, learning and educational research. However, though attractive, not least because of its critique of positivism, its affinity to Dewey and Habermas, and its arguments for openness, diversity, relationships, agency and creativity, the theory is not without its difficulties. These are seen to lie in terms of complexity theory's nature, status, methodolo…
School inspection in small states and territories: An overview and case study of Macau
This paper reviews school inspection systems in small states and territories (SSTs), indicating tensions, challenges and sensitivities that relate to their small size. A qualitative case study is presented of the new school inspection system in Macau, a post‐colonial, small territory facing issues experienced in other SSTs. Macau's inspection system is contextualized within its decentralized, developing schooling system and local sensitivities, p…
Searching for causality in the wrong places
The paper raises difficulties for causation and causal inferences in social research, including counterfactuals, transitivity, inference in probabilistic causation, and manipulating and controlling variables. It suggests limits to causal modelling in understanding causality and causal processes in social research. Problems with randomization in social research are raised. Causal modelling, premised on a simplistic and linear view of causation, si…
Research Methods in Education
A follow-up bereavement service: ‘Completing the Patient Pathway’
The article describes an initiative, The Bereavement Care Follow up Service (BCFS) in Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Trust which offers brief intervention and support for relatives following the death of a loved one in hospital. The service includes sending a letter of condolence, and offering an opportunity to talk to a member of the team involved in the care of their relative. It presents its historical context, its pertinence to grie…
Mapping Subsurface Archaeology with SAR
SubSAR is a new scheme for mapping subsurface features with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) at large stand‐off distances applicable to airborne and satellite measurements. This is in sharp contrast to current techniques, where discrimination relies on close‐proximity measurement of the scene, usually with a ground‐based system. The scheme discriminates between surface and subsurface returns using a novel application of differential SAR interferome…
Research Methods in Education
Teaching and learning with older adults: Research ethics, risk analysis, and covert research
This article reports a case study of older adults learning English in China. It indicates how, founded on consequentialist ethics, risk analysis, and safeguarding, it was decided to use covert research, drawing on the confluence of risk analysis, risk evaluation, risk management, safeguarding, research ethics, and important contextual and cultural features. Ethical principles of nonmaleficence, beneficence, safeguarding, and protection were addre…
Waldorf early childhood education: From the West to the East
Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (5 works)