Doing Research/ Reading Research: A Mode of Interrogation for Education.
By: Dowling, Paul.
Contributor(s): Brown, Andrew.
Publisher: London : RoutledgeFalmer, 2010Edition: 2nd.Description: xiv, 205p ; illus. ; pbk.ISBN: 9780415376020.Subject(s): Education | Education-Research-Methodology | Education-Research | Action research-EducationDDC classification: 370.72Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction: the three Rs of research --2︣. Declaring an interest --3︣. Articulating the theoretical and empirical fields --4︣. An ethical dimension to research --5︣. Experience and observation: the collection of first-hand data --6︣. Gathering information and asking questions: questionnaires, interivews and accounts --7︣. Quality in analysis --8︣. Dealing with quantity --9︣. Specialising, localising and generalising: a mode of interrogation --1︣0. Opening and closing the account --1︣1. The practitioner and educational research: a manifesto.
This best-selling text provides a scheme which enables the beginning researcher to organize and evaluate the research that they read and to plan and implement small scale research projects of their own.