Research Methods in Education

This book represents a timely reassessment of the narrative trends of the 21st century, detailing how theories of narrativity and life story analysis can combine to inform learning potential and developing courses of action...

This book explores the impact of e-research in education, and the opportunities presented by a new generation of research approaches and tools, enabling people to create and share information. Exploring the implications of how we conceptualise educational research in the digital age, the contributor..

This collection shows students the many inherent weaknesses of empirical methods as well as models of excellence. Unlike research readers that contain made-up articles, this one has both face validity and content validity. Your students will appreciate reading real articles with real results. The 33..

Looking into the troubled relationship between ‘research’ and ‘policy-making’ in education; with contributions from leading UK educationalists, this book will be invaluable to academics wanting to learn from the experience of senior researchers...

Emerging Approaches to Educational Research explores four significant framings to do with research on education and learning across the lifecourse. It discusses how they are being taken up and utilised, as well as their possibilities and limitations: _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ complexity science _x000D..

Emerging Approaches to Educational Research explores four significant framings to do with research on education and learning across the lifecourse. It discusses how they are being taken up and utilised, as well as their possibilities and limitations: _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ complex..

The book brings together a collection of writing by different authors who use a narrative/life history approach to explore the experiences of a wide range of people, reflecting on learning and education at significant moments in their lives...

This book is designed to address the complex dilemmas and issues that arise from the contribution made to practitioner inquiry. Facilitating practitioner research is far more than providing advice upon methods which may be adopted, important as that contribution is; or even modelling research practi..

This book provides a retrospective look at major developments as well as a prospective view of future directions in factor analysis. In so doing, it demonstrates how and why factor analysis is considered to be one of the methodological pillars of behavioral research. Featuring an outstanding collect..

This book provides a retrospective look at major developments as well as a prospective view of future directions in factor analysis. In so doing, it demonstrates how and why factor analysis is considered to be one of the methodological pillars of behavioral research. Featuring an outstanding collect..

Focus Groups: From Structured Interviews to Collective Conversations is a conceptual and practical introduction to focus group. As the title indicates, focus groups traditionally encompass a wide range of discursive practices. These span from formal structured interviews with particular people assem..

This thought-provoking book for students and researchers critically interrogates the various ways in which globalization reshapes research and investigates the challenges that globalization poses for the social sciences and humanities...