Research Methods in Education Books

New and Published Books

1. Designing Critical Literacy Education through Critical Discourse Analysis

   Pedagogical and Research Tools for Teacher-Researchers

   By Rebecca Rogers, Melissa Mosley Wetzel

   Uniquely bringing together discourse analysis, critical literacy, and teacher research, this book invites teacher educators, literacy researchers, and discourse analysts to consider how discourse analysis can be used to foster critical literacy education. It is both a guide for conducting critical...

   Published June 16th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Social Politics of Research Collaboration

   Edited by Gabriele Griffin, Katarina Hamberg, Britta Lundgren

   Series: Routledge Advances in Research Methods

   The past two decades have seen an increasing emphasis on large and interdisciplinary research configurations such as research networks, and centers of excellence including those in Social Sciences and Humanities research. Little research has been undertaken, however, to understand how these new...

   Published June 2nd 2013 by Routledge
3. Involving Children and Young People in Health and Social Care Research

   Edited by Jennie Fleming, Thilo Boeck

   Lead by both children’s rights perspectives and methodological arguments there is an increasing emphasis on children and young people’s participation in health and social care research by researchers, policy makers and funding bodies – with many now considering the active involvement of children...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
4. Reframing Educational Research

   Resisting the 'what works' agenda

   Edited by Valerie Farnsworth, Yvette Solomon

   Possibilities for the use of research in educational practice are often written off due to the history, politics and interests of the ostensibly separate worlds that researchers and practitioners occupy. However, a more optimistic account highlights the ways these communities share a common need...

   Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge
5. Reviewing Research in Special Education

   Making the Evidence Work for Practitioners

   Edited by Jennifer Doran, Seamus Hegarty

   This innovative collection combines research reviews in special education and an exploration of the findings from these reviews from practitioner and policy maker perspectives. It consists of five sets of papers, the first of which in each set presents a summary of a conventional research review,...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Single Case Research in Schools

   Practical Guidelines for School-Based Professionals

   By Kimberly J. Vannest, John L. Davis, Richard I. Parker

   Series: School-Based Practice in Action

   Single Case Research in Schools addresses and examines the variety of cutting-edge issues in single case research (SCR) in educational settings. Featuring simple and practical techniques for aggregating data for evidence-based practices, the book delves into methods of selecting behaviors of...

   Published May 19th 2013 by Routledge
7. Education in Renaissance England

   Covering both formal and informal education, this volume examines Renaissance education in England and Italy, set within the relevant social, political and historical context....

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
8. Ethical Issues in Literacy Research

   Edited by Carole S. Rhodes, Kenneth J. Weiss

   Literacy educators and researchers at all stages of their careers face ethical issues whenever they embark on research studies. In this book experienced literacy researchers identify and address multi-faceted, multi-dimensional ethical issues related to conducting studies in school, home, community...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
9. Social Theory and Education Research

   Understanding Foucault, Habermas,Bourdieu and Derrida

   Edited by Mark Murphy

   Although education researchers have drawn on the work of a wide diversity of theorists, a number of these have been of particular significance to education. While the likes of Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, John Dewey and Paulo Freire influenced previous generations of educational theorists, much of...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
10. The Future of Learning Design

    Edited by Shirley Agostinho, Sue Bennett, Lori Lockyer, Barry Harper

    Learning Design refers to research and development work that equips teachers with tools and strategies to aid their design thinking. Its origin stems from two lines of inquiry: (i) how to represent teaching practice from a technical perspective in the development and delivery of online learning...

    Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge