1st Edition

Researching Primary Education: Methods and Issues

Edited By Rosemary Webb Copyright 2010
110 Pages
by Routledge

110 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

This book increases understanding of, and provides inspiration for, the conduct of research in primary/elementary education. It discusses and evaluates the selection and development of research methods used for their own innovatory projects. They explore the relationship between their choice of research methods, the frameworks for analysis used and research findings. In so doing they address the... Read more

1. Introduction: Researching primary education: methods and issues  Rosemary Webb  2. Randomised controlled trials in education research: A case study of an individually randomised pragmatic trial  Carole Torgerson  3. Evaluating the social impacts of inclusion through a multi-method research design  Elias Avramidis and Alison Wilde  4. Researching ‘teachers in the news’: The portrayal of teachers in the British national and regional press  Anders Hansen  5. Missing out? Challenges to hearing the views of all children on the barriers and supports to learning  Jill Porter  6. About face: Issues in visual research with children  Caroline Lodge  7. Children researching their urban environment: Developing a methodology  Elisabeth Barratt Hacking and Robert Barrett  8. Talk in primary science: A method to promote productive and contextualized group discourse  Martin Braund  9. Using qualitative research strategies in cross-national projects: the English-Finnish experience  Graham Vulliamy and Rosemary Webb

Biography

Rosemary Webb has had a varied career in primary education as a teacher, a professional officer at the National Curriculum Council, lecturer and researcher and became a Professor in the School of Education at the University of Manchester in 2006. She is a past Chair of the Association for the Study of Primary Education (ASPE) and convenor of the British Educational Research Association/ ASPE Special Interest Group on primary education. She has researched and published widely on primary education and on qualitative research.