Ian J Menter, Dely Elliot, Moira Hulme, Jon Lewin, Kevin Lowden

A Guide to Practitioner Research in Education (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781446210079
• Artikelnr.: 38406790

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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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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?

Rezensionen

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