Researching Post-Compulsory Education
Published on 1. December 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-0-8264-6712-6 (ISBN)
Description
Practitioners in the further education sector need to develop confidence in their own research practices and establish recognition within higher education of practitioner research in further education. This book will help staff in this sector to develop their professional practice through their research.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
155 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-6712-6 (9780826467126)
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Persons
Jill Jameson is Director of Research and Enterprise and Reader in Education Research at the School of Education, University of Greenwich, UK. Yvonne Hillier is Professor of Education at Brighton University, UK.
Content
Overview of small-scale research evaluation of change management; Principle One - Read up on Change Processes and Impact of Research; Principle Two - Determine your Audience and Purpose; Principle Three - Focus your Question; Principle Four - Get the Method and Timing Right; Principle Five - Be Sensitive to the ethics and politics of data collection; Principle Six - Be Critical in writing and disseminating your findings; Principle Seven - Evaluate the impact of your change management research.