Research Methods in Education Books

New and Published Books

1. Ethical Issues in Literacy Research

   Edited by Carole S. Rhodes, Kenneth J. Weiss

   Literacy educators and researchers at all stages of their careers face ethical issues whenever they embark on research studies. In this book experienced literacy researchers identify and address multi-faceted, multi-dimensional ethical issues related to conducting studies in school, home, community...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
2. Social Theory and Education Research

   Understanding Foucault, Habermas,Bourdieu and Derrida

   Edited by Mark Murphy

   Although education researchers have drawn on the work of a wide diversity of theorists, a number of these have been of particular significance to education. While the likes of Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, John Dewey and Paulo Freire influenced previous generations of educational theorists, much of...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Future of Learning Design

   Edited by Shirley Agostinho, Sue Bennett, Lori Lockyer, Barry Harper

   Learning Design refers to research and development work that equips teachers with tools and strategies to aid their design thinking. Its origin stems from two lines of inquiry: (i) how to represent teaching practice from a technical perspective in the development and delivery of online learning...

   Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge
4. Participatory Action Research

   Theory and Methods for Engaged Inquiry

   By Jacques M. Chevalier, Daniel J. Buckles

   This book addresses a key issue in higher learning, university education and scientific research: the widespread difficulty researchers, experts and students from all disciplines face when trying to contribute to change in complex social settings characterized by uncertainty and the unknown. More...

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
5. Applied Quantitative Analysis in Education and the Social Sciences

   Edited by Yaacov Petscher, Christopher Schatschneider, Donald L. Compton

   To say that complex data analyses are ubiquitous in the education and social sciences might be an understatement. Funding agencies and peer-review journals alike require that researchers use the most appropriate models and methods for explaining phenomena. Univariate and multivariate data...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
6. Action Research

   Principles and practice, 3rd Edition

   By Jean McNiff

   Since its first publication, Action Research: Principles and Practice has become a key text in its field. This new updated edition clearly describes and explains the practices of action research and its underlying values, and introduces important new ideas, including: all professionals should be...

   Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge
7. Pedagogies, Physical Culture, and Visual Methods

   Edited by Laura Azzarito, David Kirk

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   To understand and more creatively capture the social world, visual methods have increasingly become used by researchers in the social sciences and education. However, despite the rapid development of visual-based knowledge, and despite the obvious links between human movement and visual forms of...

   Published February 4th 2013 by Routledge
8. Focus Groups

   From structured interviews to collective conversations

   By George Kamberelis, Greg Dimitriadis

   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...

   Published February 3rd 2013 by Routledge
9. Contextualising Narrative Inquiry

   Developing methodological approaches for local contexts

   Edited by Sheila Trahar

   Narrative inquiry is growing in popularity as a research methodology in the social sciences, medicine and the humanities. In narrative inquiry, the transparency of interactions between researcher and research participants, together with rich, contextual descriptions, help to shape and structure...

   Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge
10. Qualitative Research

    The essential guide to theory and practice

    By Maggi Savin-Baden, Claire Howell Major

    Qualitative Research: The Essential Guide to Theory and Practice provides a one-stop resource for all those approaching qualitative research for the first time, as well as those revisiting core concepts and issues. It presents a comprehensive overview of this rapidly developing field of inquiry,...

    Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge