Education Research: The Basics

<p>Concise, engaging and accessible, <i>Education Research: The Basics</i> 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. </p><p>Providing crucial insight into the work of education researchers, this book:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Offers seven chapters, each representing a way of understanding the goals and methods of research conducted in the field </li> <p> </p> <li>Considers key thinkers in the field, such as Plato, Hirsch, Dewey, Montessori and Freire</li> <p> </p> <li>Explores case studies from a range of perspectives </li> <p> </p> <li>Provides key terms and further reading throughout</li> </ul><p>The perfect pocket resource to dip into, <i>Education Research: The Basics</i> provides accessible support for those studying education as a subject, for practitioners concerned with developing their practice and for anyone who wants to know more about education and how it is researched. </p> <ol> <p>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; </p> <b> </b> <p> </p> </ol>