A Guide to Practitioner Research in Education

A Guide to Practitioner Research in Education

This book is a guide to research methods for practitioner research. Written in friendly and accessible language, it includes numerous practical examples based on the authors' own experiences in the field, to support readers.

The authors provide information and guidance on developing research skills such as gathering and analysing information and data, reporting findings and research design. They offer critical perspectives to help users reflect on research approaches and to scrutinise key issues in devising research questions.

This book is for undergraduate and postgraduate students, teachers and practitioners in practitioner research development and leadership programmes.

The team of authors are all within the School of Education at the University

of Glasgow and have significant experience of working with practitioner

researchers in education.

  • Format: Paperback | 280 pages
  • Dimensions: 170 x 242 x 14.73mm | 490g
  • Publication date: 31 Mar 2011
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • Edition Statement: First Edition
  • ISBN10: 1849201854
  • ISBN13: 9781849201858
  • Bestsellers rank: 131,774

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