Doing Educational Research: Overcoming Challenges In Practice

✍ Scribed by Marit Honerød Hoveid (editor), Lucian Ciolan (editor), Angelika Paseka (editor), Sofia Marques da Silva (editor)

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 353
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Every educational research project has challenges and obstacles that need to be managed and overcome. This book uses real case studies employing a wide range of research methodologies and drawn from educational contexts across Europe to explore these challenges offering flexible and universal guidance that you can apply to your own research.

Published in partnership with EERA, this book is:

·    Realistic and informed: It explores a range of perspectives on educational research, from planning to data collection to international collaboration

·    Challenging: It integrates a holistic and critical view on the process of educational research

·    Culturally aware: It covers a variety of research projects from different countries and encourages you to challenge dominant perspectives in education

This is the first major English language textbook for postgraduate and postdoctoral education researchers that represents and explores the range of research traditions that exist throughout Europe and what they mean in practice.

✦ Table of Contents

DOING EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH - FRONT COVER
DOING EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
COPYRIGHT
CONTENTS
ABOUT THE EDITORS
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
ABOUT EERA
PART I - GETTING READY FOR THE UNEXPECTED
AN INTRODUCTION TO CHALLENGES IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
CHAPTER 1 - DOING EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
PART II - NEGOTIATING RESEARCH CONTEXTS AND DEMANDS FROM THE FIELD
CHAPTER 2 - ENTERING A FLUID RESEARCH FIELD
CHAPTER 3 - USING PHOTO-ELICITATION INTERVIEWING TO BRIDGE SOCIAL GAPS
CHAPTER 4 - PRODUCING AND SHARING KNOWLEDGE WITH A RESEARCH FIELD
PART III - EXPLORING OTHER PATHS FOR INTERPRETATION
CHAPTER 5 - DOING SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEWS – ‘NET FISHING’ OR ‘WHALE HUNTING’?
CHAPTER 6 - DOING PARTICIPATORY STORIES RESEARCH – DETOXING NARRATIVES
CHAPTER 7 - DOING MULTI-LEVEL STATISTICAL MODELLING WITH HIERARCHICALLY
NESTED SAMPLES
CHAPTER 8 - DOING DATA ANALYSIS – COLLABORATION, CREATIVITY AND CRITIQUE
PART IV - BUILDING A COMMON GROUND FOR UNDERSTANDING
CHAPTER 9 - DISCUSSING SOCIOLOGICAL GAPS AND POWER RELATIONS IN AN INTERNATIONAL SETTING
CHAPTER 10 - ADDRESSING THE CONTEXT IN CROSS-NATIONAL COMPARATIVE RESEARCH
CHAPTER 11 - ORGANISING INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH FOR
SOCIAL INCLUSION
PART V - BRIDGING RESEARCH AND POLICY
CHAPTER 12 - SHAPING THE RESEARCH PUZZLE IN AN INTERVENTION PROJECT
CHAPTER 13 - NAVIGATING MULTI-PERSPECTIVE, MULTI-LEVEL AND LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH
CHAPTER 14 - MEETING THE EXPECTATIONS OF DIFFERENT ACTORS AT THE SCIENCE–POLICY INTERFACE – MONITORING OF EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLEDEVELOPMENT IN GERMANY
PART VI - GETTING READY FOR AN OPEN FUTURE
CHAPTER 15 - EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH – A SPACE OF RISK AND UNCERTAINTY
INDEX