Book 8 of the Pedagogy of Research Series

Who gets to say what is real in education -- and what happens to those whose stories are never told?

The Narrative & Post-Modern Lens is the culminating volume of the eight-part Pedagogy of Research Series. It equips student teachers, teacher educators, and research scholars with the theoretical frameworks and methodological tools of narrative and post-modern educational research -- the tradition that examines how language, discourse, and identity shape every classroom, curriculum, and educational policy ever written.

Grounded in the Aristotle First Principles Deconstruction framework, each chapter strips inherited assumptions away to reveal what is verifiably true about how education works -- and then rebuilds from the ground up. What this book covers

Post-modern and post-structural theory: Foucault, Derrida, Butler, Bourdieu, Anzaldúa, and Critical Race Theory -- applied directly to Indian and global classroom contexts Narrative inquiry: the methodology of story, life history research, and the ethics of relational research Critical Discourse Analysis: a step-by-step guide with worked examples from Indian education policy Deconstruction, post-structural ethnography, and auto-ethnography as research methods Identity, linguistic capital, counter-storytelling, and the politics of student voice The hidden curriculum, symbolic violence, and curriculum as ideological text Four extended case studies and a complete First Principles synthesis

Who this book is for

B.Ed and M.Ed student teachers studying research methodology Teacher educators and researchers in the University of Kerala and other Indian universities Doctoral scholars in education, English, and social sciences Practising teachers seeking a rigorous framework for reflective inquiry

About the series

The Pedagogy of Research Series -- Mastering Educational Research: From Foundational Concepts to Advanced Research Design -- is an eight-volume journey through the landscape of educational inquiry. Each volume deconstructs a fundamental dimension of how we know, observe, and understand education. Book 8 is the philosophical culmination of the series. About the author

Dr. Bismi Sainudeen holds a Ph.D. in Education and qualifications in UGC-NET & JRF (Education), UGC-NET (English), and SET (English). She has 15 years of teaching and research experience, 20 peer-reviewed publications, and is the author of more than 40 books spanning teacher education, English language pedagogy, artificial intelligence in education, and the history of literature in English.

128 pages ] 6 × 9 inches ] The Pedagogy of Research Series, Book 8