
A Guide to Practitioner Research in Education
SAGE Publications Ltd (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 11. March 2011
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-1-84920-184-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a guide to research methods for practitioner research. Written in friendly and accessible language, it includes numerous practical examples based on the authors' own experiences in the field, to support readers.
The authors provide information and guidance on developing research skills such as gathering and analysing information and data, reporting findings and research design. They offer critical perspectives to help users reflect on research approaches and to scrutinise key issues in devising research questions.
This book is for undergraduate and postgraduate students, teachers and practitioners in practitioner research development and leadership programmes.
The team of authors are all within the School of Education at the University
of Glasgow and have significant experience of working with practitioner
researchers in education.
The authors provide information and guidance on developing research skills such as gathering and analysing information and data, reporting findings and research design. They offer critical perspectives to help users reflect on research approaches and to scrutinise key issues in devising research questions.
This book is for undergraduate and postgraduate students, teachers and practitioners in practitioner research development and leadership programmes.
The team of authors are all within the School of Education at the University
of Glasgow and have significant experience of working with practitioner
researchers in education.
Reviews / Votes
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 *More details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 170 mm
Weight
618 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84920-184-1 (9781849201841)
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Content
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?
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?