Research Methods in Education Books

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1. Knowledge Mobilization and Educational Research: Politics, Languages and Responsibilities

   Edited by Tara Fenwick, Lesley Farrell

   How can educational research have more impact? What processes of knowledge exchange are most effective for increasing the uses of research results? How can research-produced knowledge be better ‘mobilized’ among users such as practicing educators, policy makers, and the public communities? These...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-61465-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research: Using Epistemological Frameworks in the Production of Meaning

   By Alecia Youngblood Jackson, Lisa Mazzei

   Thinking With Theory In Qualitative Research shows how by using various epistemological frameworks in practices of inquiry, researchers can open up the production of meaning in qualitative data analysis. In this book the authors use a common data set and then use various epistemological...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-78099-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Early Childhood Teacher Research

   By Kathryn Castle

   This exciting new resource, Early Childhood Teacher Research, is a comprehensive guide for early childhood students and professionals in understanding and doing early childhood teacher research. This accessible and interactive book touches upon the important issues every early childhood...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-87759-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Enhancing Practice through Classroom Research: A teachers' guide to professional development

   By Caitriona McDonagh

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-59768-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Emerging Approaches to Educational Research: Tracing the Socio-Material

   By Tara Fenwick, Richard Edwards, Peter Sawchuk

   The last fifteen years have seen much conceptual and methodological innovation in research on education and learning across the lifecourse, bringing both fresh insights and new dilemmas. This innovation was initially fuelled by the growing influence of conceptual framings often named as either...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-57092-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Introductory Statistics: A Guided Tour

   Edited by William B. Ware, John M. Ferron, Barbara M. Miller

   This comprehensive and uniquely organized text is aimed at undergraduate and graduate level statistics courses in education and psychology. An organization scheme built around common issues and problems rather than statistical techniques allows students to understand the conceptual nature of...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-99600-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Research Methods for Youth Work: An introduction

   Edited by Simon Bradford, Fin Cullen

   Rigorous research is crucial to effective work with young people and increasingly youth practitioners need to be able to develop, review and evidence their work using a variety of research and assessment tools. This text equips students and practitioners with a thorough understanding of research...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-57103-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Beginning Interpretive Inquiry: A Step-by-Step Approach to Research and Evaluation

   By Richard Morehouse

   This book is entitled Beginning Interpretive Inquiry and not beginning interpretive research or interpretive evaluation. For as the author shows inquiry is a far more inclusive concept that allows for a detailed understanding of both research and evaluation. The author draws on his personal...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-60189-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Literacy for All Students: An Instructional Framework for Closing the Gap

   Edited by Rebecca Powell, Elizabeth Rightmyer

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-88587-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems: The Role of Learning and Education

    Edited by Marianne E. Krasny, Cecilia Lundholm, Ryan Plummer

    A growing body of literature focuses on resilience, or the capacity of a social-ecological system to sustain itself in the face of disturbance and change. Resilience adds to the discussion of sustainability and environmental education research because: (1) social-ecological systems are constantly...

    April 2011 | 978-0-415-55253-0 | Hardback (Routledge)