Reflective Practice in Educational Research

Have you ever found that your initial research training--if indeed you received one--has proved not entirely adequate? Has you ever found research more complex or intractable than expected? If so, this book is for you. Drawing on examples from her own research and others, Linda Evans shows how, as reflective practioners, researchers as can develop more advanced methods and understandings.

List of tables

vi

List of figures

vii

Preface

ix

PART I: THE NEED FOR IMPROVEMENT

1

(46)

Developing as an educational researcher

3

(22)

What's wrong with educational research?

25

(22)

PART II: DEVELOPING ADVANCED RESEARCH SKILLS

47

(182)

Taking conceptualization seriously

49

(25)

Comparative analysis: trying to see the big picture

74

(21)

A tale of two studies: a research puzzle to solve

95

(25)

The suggestibility issue

120

(15)

Telling it as it is

135

(21)

Tools of the trade: developing coding and categorization skills

156

(20)

Developing theory

176

(25)

Beyond theory: relevance and usefulness through the pragmatization of research

201

(28)

References

229

(10)

Index

239

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Reflective Practice in Educational Research

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