Research Methods in Education, Sixth Edition
[Pages:657]Research Methods in
Education
This rewritten and updated sixth edition of the long-running bestseller Research Methods in Education covers the whole range of methods currently employed by educational research at all stages. It has five main parts: the context of educational research, planning educational research, styles of educational research, strategies for data collection and researching and data analysis. The book contains references to a comprehensive dedicated web site of accompanying materials. It continues to be the standard text for students and lecturers undertaking, understanding and using educational research.
This sixth edition comprises new material including:
O complexity theory, ethics, sampling, sensitive educational research, researching powerful people, Internet-based research, interviewing and surveys
O expanded coverage of, and practical guidance in, experimental research, questionnaire design and administration
O an entirely new part, containing five new chapters covering qualitative and quantitative data analysis including content analysis, grounded theory, statistics and how to use them, effect size, and reporting data, all with practical examples
O detailed cross-referencing to a major educational resource web site designed specifically to run alongside this book.
Research Methods in Education, sixth edition, is essential reading for both the professional researcher and anyone involved in educational research.
Louis Cohen is Emeritus Professor of Education at Loughborough University, UK.
Lawrence Manion was former Principal Lecturer in Music at Didsbury School of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Keith Morrison is Professor of Education at the Inter-University Institute of Macau and formerly Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Durham, UK.
Research Methods in Education
Sixth edition Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion and Keith Morrison
First published 2007 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business ? 2007 Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion and Keith Morrison
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For Lawrence Manion, a wise counsellor and a good friend
Contents
List of boxes
xiii
Acknowledgements
xvii
Introduction
1
Part 1 The context of educational research
1 The nature of inquiry ? Setting the field
Introduction
5
The search for truth
5
Two conceptions of social reality
7
Positivism
9
The assumptions and nature of
science
11
The tools of science
14
The scientific method
15
Criticisms of positivism and the scientific
method
17
Alternatives to positivistic social science:
naturalistic approaches
19
A question of terminology: the normative
and interpretive paradigms
21
Phenomenology, ethnomethodology and
symbolic interactionism
22
Criticisms of the naturalistic and interpretive
approaches
25
Critical theory and critical educational
research
26
Criticisms of approaches from critical
theory
29
Critical theory and curriculum
research
30
A summary of the three paradigms
32
The emerging paradigm of complexity
theory
33
Feminist research
34
Research and evaluation
41
Research, politics and policy-making 46
Methods and methodology
47
Part 2 Planning educational research
2 The ethics of educational and social research
Introduction
51
Informed consent
52
Access and acceptance
55
The field of ethics
58
Sources of tension
58
Voices of experience
61
Ethical dilemmas
62
Ethics and research methods in
education
69
Ethics and evaluative research
70
Research and regulation: ethical codes and
review
71
Sponsored research
74
Responsibilities to the research
community
75
Conclusion
75
3 Planning educational research
Introduction
78
A framework for planning research
78
A planning matrix for research
87
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