Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Introduction: Research Accounts Count -- Researching the 'Pastoral' and the 'Academic': An Ethnographic Exploration of Bernstein's Sociology of the Curriculum -- 'Are you a girl or are you a teacher?' The 'Least Adult' Role in Research about Gender and Sexuality in a Primary School -- Critical Moments in the Creative Teaching Research -- Developing the Identity and Learning Programme: Principles and Pragmatism in a Longitudinal Ethnography of Pupil Careers -- Using Ethnographic Methods in a Study of Students' Secondary School and Post-school Careers -- More than the Sum of Its Parts? Coordinating the ESRC Research Programme on Innovation and Change in Education -- Climbing an Educational Mountain: Conducting the International School Effectiveness Research Project (ISERP) -- The Making of Men: Theorizing Methodology in 'Uncertain Times' -- The Profession of a 'Methodological Purist'? -- The Director's Tale: Developing Teams and Themes in a Research Centre -- The 'Last Blue Mountain'? Doing Educational Research in a Contract Culture -- Compulsive Writing Behaviour: Getting It Published -- Notes on Contributors -- Author Index.