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Creative Thinking And Doing
For many teachers and teacher education students, research is an initially daunting prospect. This accessible and engaging text will introduce students to the broad field of educational research demonstrating how to use research to think about issues arising from classroom settings, organisations, or wider professional activities. It provides students with the confidence to address firstly the basic principles, imperatives and theoretical approaches, and then explains how to tackle the necessary processes and procedures.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I Thinking Research
1. ‘Seeing’ research
What is research?
Why do it?
Contexts of formal research
Research scholarship
2. What does research entail?
Some philosophical considerations
Some responsibilities
Defining the key terms
3. Research and the practitioner
Practitioners as researchers
Researching practice
Three approaches to research
The underpinning significance of human experience
4. Methodologies and methods
Descriptive and interpretive research
Interventionist methodologies—bringing about
change through research
Third-space methodologies—for description, interpretation
and ongoing change
PART II Doing Research
5. Making a start
Starting points
Developing the proposal or submission
Ethics approval
6. The literature
Accessing the literature
Making a start
How to read
Retrieving and documenting the literature
Internet and other sources
Research site resources
7. Dealing with data
Collecting and generating data
Negative data and silent voices
Background data
Participant data
Experimental data
Documenting data
8. Data analysis and synthesis
A note of encouragement and an outline
Preparing the ground for analysis
Analysis in action
Analysis after action
Analysing the data—quantitative
Analysing the data—qualitative
Mediating and mediated data
Data synthesis
9. Reporting research
Planning your report
Aesthetics and style
Dynamic reporting
Publishing research
Epilogue
References
Index
John O’Toole – Chair of Arts Education, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
David Beckett – Associate Professor, Melbourne School of Graduate Research and Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
