Qualitative Research in Education (BERA/SAGE Research Methods in Education) - Hardcover

Atkins, Liz; Wallace, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1446208060 ISBN 13: 9781446208069

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

This accessible and practical book is a perfect quick guide for graduate researchers in education. Looking at the interdependence of teaching and research, authors Liz Atkins and Sue Wallace show that a critical and analytical exploration of policies and practices is a necessary part of what we mean by being a ′professional′ in education.

Drawing on the authors′ substantial experience of teaching research skills at graduate level, as well as on their own experiences as active researchers, the book will guide you through:

• Discourse analysis
• Visual methods
• Textual research
• Data collection and analysis

About this title

About the Author

Dr Liz Atkins is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Huddersfield. She has taught extensively in both further and higher education on both vocational and teacher education programmes and has also managed provision in which university programmes were taught in FE colleges.

Susan Wallace is Professor of Continuing Education at Nottingham Trent University. She previously taught for ten years in Further Education and has worked in a local authority advisory role for post-16 education. She is the author of a number of books, including Teaching, Tutoring and Training in the Lifelong Learning Sector and Managing Behaviour in the Lifelong Learning Sector.

Review

′This book successfully revives Lawrence Stenhouse′s seminal work on the ′teacher-researcher′ by showing the interconnectedness of teaching and research and stressing the key role of the practitioner-researcher. Its chapters provide comprehensive guidance for researchers at all levels on conducting small scale research in an ethical and reflexive way′
-Professor Jerry Wellington, Sheffield

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1446208060
• ISBN 13: 9781446208069
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272