A Guide to Practitioner Research in Education - Brossura

Ian Menter; Dely Elliot; Moira Hulme; Jon Lewin; Kevin Lowden

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1849201854 ISBN 13: 9781849201858

Casa editrice: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2011

Riassunto

Written in friendly and accessible language, this concise guide includes numerous practical examples based on the authors? extensive experience in the field. The authors provide information and guidance on developing research skills such as gathering and analyzing information and data, reporting findings, and research design. They offer critical perspectives to help users reflect on research approaches and to understand the key issues in devising research questions.

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Recensione:

This book, with its focus on practitioner research in education, will certainly be of value to practitioner researchers who find the more generic books on social science research methods not tackling the specific challenges they face in sufficient detail. (Paul Davies Educational Review)

Contenuti:

PART ONE: WHAT IS RESEARCH AND WHY DO IT?
What Is Research?
Why Do Practitioner Research?
PART TWO: WHAT DO WE WANT TO KNOW?
What Is a Research Question?
Getting It Right! Values and the Ethical Dimensions of Practitioner Research
PART THREE: WHAT DO WE KNOW ALREADY AND WHERE DO WE FIND IT?
What Do We Know Already?
How Do I Do a Literature Review?
PART FOUR: HOW WILL WE FIND OUT?
Questionnaires and Questionnaire Design
Interviews
Using Focus Groups
Observation
Other Methods
PART FIVE: WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
Quantitative Data Analysis
Qualitative Data Analysis
PART SIX: HOW WILL WE TELL EVERYONE?
How Do I Write up My Research?

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• Editore: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1849201854
• ISBN 13: 9781849201858
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 280