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Doing Educational Research in Schools
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Doing Educational Research in Schools



232 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

This is your essential guide to carrying out research in schools. It walks you through each step offering smart practical guidance supported by real world examples of students’ work to help you understand academic research vocabulary, avoid common pitfalls and produce a successful educational research project. It also discusses careful ground rules for the ethical use of AI tools in your research project.

  • Learn how to frame an appropriate research question.
  • Understand the careful ethical considerations involved in research in educational settings.
  • Explore the pros and cons of different methods for collecting data.
  • Find out how to analyse your data and write up your findings.
  • Understand how researchers disseminate their work effectively to wider audiences.
This is vital reading for anyone training to teach in schools or studying on an education degree with a research project component.
 
Chapter 1 Introduction
 
Chapter 2 The nature of knowledge: what is it to know or learn something?
 
Chapter 3 Types of research in schools
 
Chapter 4 Ethics
 
Chapter 5 Choosing the focus and title of your research
 
Chapter 6 Research with children
 
Chapter 7 Research with adults
 
Chapter 8 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. A chapter of related case studies
 
Chapter 9 The Literature Review
 
Chapter 10 Data Analysis
 
Chapter 11 Last steps: the conclusion, the introduction, the abstract, and the proofreading
 
Chapter 12 Dissemination

Mark Betteney

Dr Mark Betteney is Associate Professor in Education, Language and Learning at University of Greenwich. He trained to be a teacher in 1988-9 and taught in primary schools in northwest Kent and southeast London until 2005. In that time, he led the teaching of music and literacy in three schools and became intrigued to know whether teaching children to read music in the early stages of language acquisition would benefit their ability to learn to decode text. The pursuit of this question resulted in his doctorate, and in his ongoing interest in education research. He became a senior lecturer (teacher training) at London Metropolitan... More About Author

Robert Morgan

Dr Robert Morgan is Associate Professor in Primary Education at University of Greenwich. He trained to be a primary teacher in 1993-94 and taught in primary schools in Torfaen and southeast London until 2007.  He currently teaches on undergraduate and postgraduate teacher training programmes, educational programmes, as well as MA and doctoral pathways. His doctoral thesis explored the deployment of teaching assistants by trainee teachers. Robert is a member of National Association of Primary Education (NAPE) and is the association’s journal editor.  More About Author