1st Edition

Education Research: The Basics

By Michael Hammond, Jerry Wellington Copyright 2020
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Concise, engaging and accessible, Education Research: The Basics discusses key ideas about the nature and purpose of education research: what it can and cannot achieve, how it has been used in the past and where and how it has an impact. Providing crucial insight into the work of education researchers, this book: Offers seven chapters, each representing a way of understanding the goals... Read more

    Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Practitioners addressing problems of practice; Chapter 3: Generalising about teaching and learning; Chapter 4: Describing and categorising in education research; Chapter 5: Explaining and theorising in education research; Chapter 6: Advocating: saying how it could be otherwise; Chapter 7: Education research: looking back and looking forward; References; Key words;

     

Biography

Michael Hammond leads an MA in social science research and is Reader in Education at the University of Warwick, UK.

Jerry Wellington was a Professor and Head of Research Degrees in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield, UK, and is now an educational consultant.