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Doing research/reading research : re-interrogating education / Paul Dowling and Andrew Brown.

By: Dowling, Paul.
Contributor(s): Brown, Andrew, 1956- | Brown, Andrew, 1956-. Doing research/reading research.
Publisher: London : Routledge, 2010Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xiv, 205 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780415376013 (hbk.); 0415376017 (hbk.); 9780415376020 (pbk.); 0415376025 (pbk.).Subject(s): Action research in education | Education -- Research | Education -- Research -- MethodologyDDC classification: 370.72
Contents:
Introduction: the three Rs of research -- Declaring an interest -- Articulating the theoretical and empirical fields -- An ethical dimension to research -- Experience and observation: the collection of first-hand data -- Gathering information and asking questions: questionnaires, interviews and accounts -- Quality in analysis -- Dealing with quantity -- Specialising, localising and generalising: a mode of interrogation -- Opening and closing the account -- The practitioner and educational research: a manifesto.
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Previous ed. entered under: Brown, Andrew, 1956-.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-193) and index.

Introduction: the three Rs of research -- Declaring an interest -- Articulating the theoretical and empirical fields -- An ethical dimension to research -- Experience and observation: the collection of first-hand data -- Gathering information and asking questions: questionnaires, interviews and accounts -- Quality in analysis -- Dealing with quantity -- Specialising, localising and generalising: a mode of interrogation -- Opening and closing the account -- The practitioner and educational research: a manifesto.