John O'Toole, David Beckett

Educational Research

Creative Thinking and Doing

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Produktbeschreibung

For many teachers and teacher education students, research is an initially daunting prospect. This accessible and engaging text introduces students to the broad field of educational research demonstrating how to use research to think about issues arising from educational and social policy, as well as schools and classrooms, within organizational and institutional contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Prairie Wind Publishing
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 188mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780195518313
• ISBN-10: 0195518314
• Artikelnr.: 39743343

Autorenporträt

John O'Toole Honorary Professor, School of Education, Griffith University David Beckett Associate Professor and Deputy Dean, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part A Thinking Research
1: : 'Seeing' Research
2: : What does research entail?
3: : Research and the practitioner
4: : Methodologies and methods
Postscript to Part A: A warning
Epilogue to Part A: The agony column 1: Getting Started
Part B: Doing Research
5: : Making a start
6: : The Literature
7: : Dealing with data
8: : Data analysis and synthesis
9: : Reporting research
Postscript to Part B: A valediction
Epilogue to Part B: The agony column: Getting it done
Bibliography
Index