Many countries keep official records of parliamentary debates. In the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Singapore, these transcriptions are referred to as Hansard, providing a rich resource for researchers exploring the historical and contextual background of governmental policy and legislation. This case study draws on the original…

This research methods case focuses on producing and analyzing field notes of a fieldwork in lower secondary schools in Denmark. In this case, I deal with the questions of how to do fieldwork and how to produce and analyze field notes in ways that are more alert and open to the affective and spatial dimensions of the everyday life in schools. The…

This case study stems from a challenge I faced working with audio records of open-ended interviews conducted with teachers in Lithuania. I sought to understand teachers' perspectives about educational changes in Lithuania 12 years after regaining independence. The interviews were dynamic and rich in information, but the richness became obscure in…