Case Study Research In Educational Settings

Case Study Research In Educational Settings
Author: Bassey, Michael
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1999-05-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0335199844

Readers are taken through the various stages in conducting case study research, including a helpful account of data collection and data analysis methods. Structured, narrative and descriptive approaches to writing case study reports are also discussed.

Case Study Methodology in Higher Education

Case Study Methodology in Higher Education
Author: Baron, Annette
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2019-06-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1522594310

In higher education, case studies can be utilized to have students put themselves into problems faced by a protagonist and, by doing so, address academic or career-related issues. Working through these issues provides students with an opportunity to gain applied perspective and experiences. Professors in higher education who choose this method of teaching require navigational tools to ensure that students achieve stated learning objectives. Case Study Methodology in Higher Education is an essential research publication that focuses on the history and theories relating to case study methodology including techniques for writing case studies and utilizing them in university settings to prepare students for real-life career-related scenarios. This publication features a wide range of topics such as educational leadership, case writing, and teacher education. It is essential for educators, career professionals, higher education faculty, researchers, and students.

Doing Research About Education

Doing Research About Education
Author: Geoffrey Walford
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135710309

This book brings together semi-autobiographical accounts from major educationalists about their influential research, focusing on the practical and personal aspects of the research process. The collection reflects the great changes that have occured within educational research since the 1980s and deals with the issues and situations of the late 1990s. It includes accounts that cover the various stages of the research process, a sampling of topics, the diversity of methodologies used in educational research and a range of theoretical perspectives. There is coverage of qualitative and quantitative methodologies and of large and smaller scale research. Also discussed are: ESRC programme research, contract research and theoretical research.

Sociological Research Methods

Sociological Research Methods
Author: Martin Bulmer
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1977
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781412834681

A rich source of ideas about sociological research methods to assist the researcher in determining what method will provide the most reliable and useful knowledge, how to choose between different methodologies, and what constitutes the most fruitful relationship between sociological theories and research methods.

The Research Process in Educational Settings (RLE Edu L)

The Research Process in Educational Settings (RLE Edu L)
Author: Robert G Burgess
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2012-05-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136459987

This book presents a series of research biographies based on research experiences in the study of educational settings. The main aim is to provide a set of first person accounts on doing research that combine analysis with description. The contributors have been drawn from the disciplines of sociology and educational studies and have all conducted ethnographic work or case studies in a variety of educational settings.

Researching Education Policy

Researching Education Policy
Author: David Halpin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2005-08-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135719837

The methodology researching of educational policy is the subject of this book. It takes a "behind the scenes" look at the conducting, the analysis and the interpretation of research carried out into educational policy issues revolving around the 1988 Education Reform Act.; The contributors draw on their project research experience to demonstrate the breadth of issues lionked with such policy research, and cover the gender and power balance between interviewer and interviewee, the difficulties resulting from different ideological stances of researchers and researched, and difficulties in finding links between research and policy.

Educational Research

Educational Research
Author: Marten Shipman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2005-09-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113538956X

First Published in 1985. The book is a series of articles on the organisation of educational research and its impact on policies and practices. Contributions are from leading educational researchers and from those who use the evidence produced in administration and schools. Throughout the book the emphasis is on the way organisational and methodological changes within educational research have produced stresses within the academic community and between it and the consumers of their work. In particular, the contributions are concerned with the attempts by researchers to use interpretive approaches to secure more validity in evidence while the audiences for research retain more traditional views of the methods used.

Curriculum Action Research

Curriculum Action Research
Author: James McKernan
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1996
Genre: Action research in education
ISBN: 9780749417932

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Understanding Geographical and Environmental Education

Understanding Geographical and Environmental Education
Author: Michael C. Williams
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 319
Release: 1995-12-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1847140904

These papers aim to provide a substantial review of the literature pertaining to a comprehensive range of traditional and contemporary research paradigms and research methods. The book is designed as a reference work for novice researchers in the fields of geographical and environmental education.