Alan Peshkin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 146958 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alan Peshkin |
| PRENOMES | Alan |
| SOBRENOME | Peshkin |
| ASSINATURA | PESHKIN A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 289 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1963 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Angles of Vision
This article develops the idea of consciously using different lenses for the purpose of expanding the perceptual efficacy of the researcher. Lenses provide a means of opening into or looking into. They alert and arouse us to mobilize resources of interest, energy, time, and attention. To be so mobilized is to foreground and background what is out there and thus to construct what is available to see. The author assumes that although researchers al…
The Nature of Interpretation in Qualitative Research
This paper addresses the process of interpretation from a study of the academic achievements of Native American youth. It illuminates the relationship of researcher subjectivity to the many decision points that each process of iizterpretation embodies. It also contains a counterpoint of problematics that reveals where alternative interpretive decisions could have been made
Learning to Be Good
Guides for the Novice Qualitative Researcher
Becoming Qualitative Researchers: An Introduction. Corrine Glesne and Alan Peshkin. Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences. Bruce L. Berg. Ethnography: Principles in Practice. Martyn Hammersley and Paul Atkinson
The Goodness of Qualitative Research
Research that is not theory d driven, hypothesis testing, or generalization producing may be dismissed as deficient or worse. This narrow conception does an injustice to the variety of contributions that qualitative research can make. In this article I draw upon studies conducted by means of qualitative research methods in order to demonstrate the breadth of desirable outcomes
The Play of Ethnicity in School and in Community
What Color Is Your Ethnography
God's Choice
In Search of Subjectivity. One's Own
In Search of Subjectivity-One's Own
It is no more useful for researchers to acknowledge simply that subjectivity is an invariable component of their research than it is for them to assert that their ideal is to achieve objectivity. Beginning with the premise that subjectivity is inevitable, this paper argues that researchers should systematically seek out their subjectivity, not retrospectively when the data have been collected and the analysis is complete, but while their research…
God's Choice
Is Bethany Baptist Academy choice? Ask the fundamentalist Christians who teach there or whose children attend the academy, and their answer will be a yes as unequivocal as their claim that the Bible is inerrant, absolute word. Is this truth or arrogance? In God's Choice, Alan Peshkin offers readers the opportunity to consider this question in depth. Given the outsider's rare chance to observe such a school firsthand, Peshkin spent eighteen months…
Understanding Complexity
While the efficacy of quantitative inquiry is obtained by limiting the variables of interest, the success of researchers in doing so necessarily simplifies their object of inquiry. Though understanding complexity is not exclusive to qualitative inquiry, qualitative methods are notably suited for grasping the complexity of the phenomena we investigate. By not prespecifying what they will attend to, and by virtue of the relatively extended amount o…
God's Choice
From Title to Title
Naturalistic inquirers often begin fieldwork expecting to discover, not verify, the main point of their inquiry. Given their complexity, field settings seldom contain a single point or story. The naturalistic researchers' relatively unfocused beginnings lead to various tentative efforts to identify what strikes them as most promising. As they become immersed increasingly in their data, they must contend with different points that compete for cent…
Odd Man Out
The time has long past since fieldwork was done primarily in remote, preliterate societies. Today's fieldwork is frequently located close to. home, at least in a geographic sense (see Messerschmidt, 1981). This proximity usually precludes the need to learn a new language, to puzzle through exotic belief systems and political structures, or to learn how to participate in the life of a community with few important points in common with one's own. N…
Growing up American
Whom Shall the Schools Serve
Yet, adherence to the principle of local control can result in controversial educational policy. Through conformity to the will of the local community, schools may teach bigotry in place of tolerance or contempt for learning in place of the love of it. And who then is well served? The community? The students? The nation? Consider the case of Mansfield.1 Corn and soybean fields make an island of Mansfield village. Here, in the heart of America's a…
Whom Shall the Schools Serve? Some Dilemmas of Local Control in a Rural School District
Limitations of Schooling for Planned Political Socialisation
The Use of Trained Native Observers in Field Work
Competence in the language of a people under study is sometimes not possible for the researcher, who thus faces a handicap when attempting to collect data firsthand through personal observation and interview. The purpose of this paper is to discuss a method for collecting such qualitative data through the use of trained native observers
Education and National Integration in Nigeria
The new nations of the world hold many expectations for their education systems. They expect that schools will produce the labour force for their manpower requirements, the leadership for their bureaucracies, and the citizenry for an enlightened social order. In pluralistic countries, governments expect also that schools will assist in integrating sub-populations fragmented by religious, linguistic, or ethnic differences. This article will examin…
Educational Reform in Colonial and Independent Africa
Journal Article Educational Reform in Colonial and Independent Africa Get access Alan Peshkin Alan Peshkin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 256, July 1965, Pages 210–216, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a095380 Published: 01 July 1965
Dilemmas of educational investment in the less developed nations
A girls school
(1963). A girls school: Pakistan style. Peabody Journal of Education: Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 173-178
The Shaping of Secondary Education in Pakistan
The purpose of this paper is to trace some of the educational developments in British India which later shaped the thinking of educators in Pakistan and to discuss the educational aspirations of Pakistan within the broader context of Pakistan society. The first section contains a description of some educational reform plans prepared in pre-independence India. The second section deals with the circumstances of the partition of the Indo-Pakistan su…
In Search of Subjectivity-One's Own
It is no more useful for researchers to acknowledge simply that subjectivity is an invariable component of their research than it is for them to assert that their ideal is to achieve objectivity. Beginning with the premise that subjectivity is inevitable, this paper argues that researchers should systematically seek out their subjectivity, not retrospectively when the data have been collected and the analysis is complete, but while their research…
The Goodness of Qualitative Research
Research that is not theory d driven, hypothesis testing, or generalization producing may be dismissed as deficient or worse. This narrow conception does an injustice to the variety of contributions that qualitative research can make. In this article I draw upon studies conducted by means of qualitative research methods in order to demonstrate the breadth of desirable outcomes
In Search of Subjectivity. One's Own
The Nature of Interpretation in Qualitative Research
This paper addresses the process of interpretation from a study of the academic achievements of Native American youth. It illuminates the relationship of researcher subjectivity to the many decision points that each process of iizterpretation embodies. It also contains a counterpoint of problematics that reveals where alternative interpretive decisions could have been made
Angles of Vision
This article develops the idea of consciously using different lenses for the purpose of expanding the perceptual efficacy of the researcher. Lenses provide a means of opening into or looking into. They alert and arouse us to mobilize resources of interest, energy, time, and attention. To be so mobilized is to foreground and background what is out there and thus to construct what is available to see. The author assumes that although researchers al…
Odd Man Out
The time has long past since fieldwork was done primarily in remote, preliterate societies. Today's fieldwork is frequently located close to. home, at least in a geographic sense (see Messerschmidt, 1981). This proximity usually precludes the need to learn a new language, to puzzle through exotic belief systems and political structures, or to learn how to participate in the life of a community with few important points in common with one's own. N…
The Shaping of Secondary Education in Pakistan
The purpose of this paper is to trace some of the educational developments in British India which later shaped the thinking of educators in Pakistan and to discuss the educational aspirations of Pakistan within the broader context of Pakistan society. The first section contains a description of some educational reform plans prepared in pre-independence India. The second section deals with the circumstances of the partition of the Indo-Pakistan su…
Growing up American
Education and National Integration in Nigeria
The new nations of the world hold many expectations for their education systems. They expect that schools will produce the labour force for their manpower requirements, the leadership for their bureaucracies, and the citizenry for an enlightened social order. In pluralistic countries, governments expect also that schools will assist in integrating sub-populations fragmented by religious, linguistic, or ethnic differences. This article will examin…
Understanding Complexity
While the efficacy of quantitative inquiry is obtained by limiting the variables of interest, the success of researchers in doing so necessarily simplifies their object of inquiry. Though understanding complexity is not exclusive to qualitative inquiry, qualitative methods are notably suited for grasping the complexity of the phenomena we investigate. By not prespecifying what they will attend to, and by virtue of the relatively extended amount o…
Limitations of Schooling for Planned Political Socialisation
The Use of Trained Native Observers in Field Work
Competence in the language of a people under study is sometimes not possible for the researcher, who thus faces a handicap when attempting to collect data firsthand through personal observation and interview. The purpose of this paper is to discuss a method for collecting such qualitative data through the use of trained native observers
A girls school
(1963). A girls school: Pakistan style. Peabody Journal of Education: Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 173-178
The Shaping of Secondary Education in Pakistan
The purpose of this paper is to trace some of the educational developments in British India which later shaped the thinking of educators in Pakistan and to discuss the educational aspirations of Pakistan within the broader context of Pakistan society. The first section contains a description of some educational reform plans prepared in pre-independence India. The second section deals with the circumstances of the partition of the Indo-Pakistan su…
Dilemmas of educational investment in the less developed nations
Educational Reform in Colonial and Independent Africa
Journal Article Educational Reform in Colonial and Independent Africa Get access Alan Peshkin Alan Peshkin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 256, July 1965, Pages 210–216, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a095380 Published: 01 July 1965
Education and National Integration in Nigeria
The new nations of the world hold many expectations for their education systems. They expect that schools will produce the labour force for their manpower requirements, the leadership for their bureaucracies, and the citizenry for an enlightened social order. In pluralistic countries, governments expect also that schools will assist in integrating sub-populations fragmented by religious, linguistic, or ethnic differences. This article will examin…
The Use of Trained Native Observers in Field Work
Competence in the language of a people under study is sometimes not possible for the researcher, who thus faces a handicap when attempting to collect data firsthand through personal observation and interview. The purpose of this paper is to discuss a method for collecting such qualitative data through the use of trained native observers
Limitations of Schooling for Planned Political Socialisation
Whom Shall the Schools Serve
Yet, adherence to the principle of local control can result in controversial educational policy. Through conformity to the will of the local community, schools may teach bigotry in place of tolerance or contempt for learning in place of the love of it. And who then is well served? The community? The students? The nation? Consider the case of Mansfield.1 Corn and soybean fields make an island of Mansfield village. Here, in the heart of America's a…
Whom Shall the Schools Serve? Some Dilemmas of Local Control in a Rural School District
Growing up American
Odd Man Out
The time has long past since fieldwork was done primarily in remote, preliterate societies. Today's fieldwork is frequently located close to. home, at least in a geographic sense (see Messerschmidt, 1981). This proximity usually precludes the need to learn a new language, to puzzle through exotic belief systems and political structures, or to learn how to participate in the life of a community with few important points in common with one's own. N…
From Title to Title
Naturalistic inquirers often begin fieldwork expecting to discover, not verify, the main point of their inquiry. Given their complexity, field settings seldom contain a single point or story. The naturalistic researchers' relatively unfocused beginnings lead to various tentative efforts to identify what strikes them as most promising. As they become immersed increasingly in their data, they must contend with different points that compete for cent…
God's Choice
In Search of Subjectivity. One's Own
In Search of Subjectivity-One's Own
It is no more useful for researchers to acknowledge simply that subjectivity is an invariable component of their research than it is for them to assert that their ideal is to achieve objectivity. Beginning with the premise that subjectivity is inevitable, this paper argues that researchers should systematically seek out their subjectivity, not retrospectively when the data have been collected and the analysis is complete, but while their research…
God's Choice
Is Bethany Baptist Academy choice? Ask the fundamentalist Christians who teach there or whose children attend the academy, and their answer will be a yes as unequivocal as their claim that the Bible is inerrant, absolute word. Is this truth or arrogance? In God's Choice, Alan Peshkin offers readers the opportunity to consider this question in depth. Given the outsider's rare chance to observe such a school firsthand, Peshkin spent eighteen months…
Understanding Complexity
While the efficacy of quantitative inquiry is obtained by limiting the variables of interest, the success of researchers in doing so necessarily simplifies their object of inquiry. Though understanding complexity is not exclusive to qualitative inquiry, qualitative methods are notably suited for grasping the complexity of the phenomena we investigate. By not prespecifying what they will attend to, and by virtue of the relatively extended amount o…
God's Choice
The Play of Ethnicity in School and in Community
What Color Is Your Ethnography
The Goodness of Qualitative Research
Research that is not theory d driven, hypothesis testing, or generalization producing may be dismissed as deficient or worse. This narrow conception does an injustice to the variety of contributions that qualitative research can make. In this article I draw upon studies conducted by means of qualitative research methods in order to demonstrate the breadth of desirable outcomes
Learning to Be Good
Guides for the Novice Qualitative Researcher
Becoming Qualitative Researchers: An Introduction. Corrine Glesne and Alan Peshkin. Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences. Bruce L. Berg. Ethnography: Principles in Practice. Martyn Hammersley and Paul Atkinson
The Nature of Interpretation in Qualitative Research
This paper addresses the process of interpretation from a study of the academic achievements of Native American youth. It illuminates the relationship of researcher subjectivity to the many decision points that each process of iizterpretation embodies. It also contains a counterpoint of problematics that reveals where alternative interpretive decisions could have been made
Angles of Vision
This article develops the idea of consciously using different lenses for the purpose of expanding the perceptual efficacy of the researcher. Lenses provide a means of opening into or looking into. They alert and arouse us to mobilize resources of interest, energy, time, and attention. To be so mobilized is to foreground and background what is out there and thus to construct what is available to see. The author assumes that although researchers al…
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