Full Description
Education practitioners and researchers from around the world will benefit from engaging with this volume, which represents a contemporary, grounded perspective on the research methodologies and methods that inform professional practice. The book series, now in its sixth volume, makes a significant contribution to research methods grappled with across science, mathematics, health and environmental education. The seventeen chapters present contextualised accounts of the design and application of a range of traditional or cutting-edge methodological approaches, grounding approaches within the contextual demands of projects, or reflecting on the wider methodological bases of methods we might otherwise take for granted, or the theories that underpin or inform choices of method including data framing and interpretation. Each chapter tells a story of a contextual need, so that the volume is both informing and entertaining in opening up insights into the educational research enterprise. The significance of the series lies in its presentation of methods as flexible and contextually framed, but with a significant burden to generate evidence that can justifiably inform policy framing and grounded action. As the times change, so must our methodologies and the bases for their ongoing usefulness.
