02175cam a2200217   4500001000500000005001700005008004100022010001700063020001500080020001800095082001600113100002600129245008600155260005900241300002600300504006400326505147800390650003801868650002401906700002701930856420181127190244.0100402s2010    at       b    001 0 eng d  a  2010277471  a0195565479  a978019556547800a370.7/22221 aO'Toole, John,d1941-10aEducational research :bcreative thinking & doing /cJohn O'Toole, David Beckett.  aSouth Melbourne, Victoria :bOxford Univ Press,c2010.  axvi, 232 p. ;c25 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 213-221) and index.  aAcknowledgments Introduction PART I Thinking Research 1.  'Seeing' research What is research? Why do it? Contexts  of formal research Research scholarship 2. What does  research entail? Some philosophical considerations Some  responsibilities Defining the key terms 3. Research and  the practitioner Practitioners as researchers Researching  practice Three approaches to research The underpinning  significance of human experience 4. Methodologies and  methods Descriptive and interpretive research  Interventionist methodologies-bringing about change  through research Third-space methodologies-for  description, interpretation and ongoing change PART II  Doing Research 5. Making a start Starting points  Developing the proposal or submission Ethics approval 6.  The literature Accessing the literature Making a start  How to read Retrieving and documenting the literature  Internet and other sources Research site resources 7.  Dealing with data Collecting and generating data Negative  data and silent voices Background data Participant data  Experimental data Documenting data 8. Data analysis and  synthesis A note of encouragement and an outline  Preparing the ground for analysis Analysis in action  Analysis after action Analysing the data-quantitative  Analysing the data-qualitative Mediating and mediated  data Data synthesis 9. Reporting research Planning your  report Aesthetics and style Dynamic reporting Publishing  research Epilogue References Indexgrt 0aEducationxResearchxMethodology. 0aEducation research.1 aBeckett, David,d1950-