Product Description

This accessible book guides you through the whole process of successfully organising and completing your education research project. The authors aim to provide you with the confidence and skills to engage in research which leads to qualification and can genuinely inform decision making.

By establishing links between the teaching and research processes, the authors show how to adopt a robust approach to research which will ensure that your research project has a secure focus, conceptual framework and methodology.

Key topics covered are:

- Planning and preparation

- Carrying out practical research

- Reporting and gathering evidence - Presentation and analysis

- Putting research back into practice.

The book is relevant to all students on undergraduate teacher training courses and educational professionals doing research either as part of a professional and academic qualification or for self and organisational improvement.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30873 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-30
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Dr Ian Terrell, Direcotr of the Midwheb Partnership for Professional Development in Education, Middlesex University
'This is a useful practical and easy to read book which makes a real connection between teaching and practitioner research. I have been looking for a new book for researchers and have no hesitation in asking my folk to get hold of a copy of this excellent book.'

Customer Reviews

If you want a clear description of Educational Research, this is for you!
I have just finished reading this new book: "Doing Your Education Research Project."

The writers have done a fantastic job. I think it should be compulsory pre course reading for all Educational Research programmes.
If I had been able to read it before my MA course I would have saved myself a lot of unnecessary confusion.

It has enabled me to have a more grounded view of what I am doing and how my work is placed in the research context.
I particularly like their explanation and enlightening diagram of Research terminology on page 65. It explains: Research paradigms, Research Approaches, Nature of Evidence and Research Methods and sets them in a cohesive framework. The diagram is already copied and is up on my office wall !

This is such a well written, clear, concise and practical perspective on educational research.

Highly recommended!

Julie Bennett (currently: MA Education Student)