This text offers new insights into the case study as a tool of educational research and suggest how it can be a prime research strategy for developing educational theory which illuminates policy and enhances practice. Several different kinds of educational case study are identified, namely: theory seeking; theory-testing; story-telling; picture-drawing; and evaluative case study. Readers are taken through the various stages in conducting case study research, including a helpful account of data collection and data analysis methods. Each stage is underpinned by the concepts of trustworthiness and respect for persons
Teacher Collaboration for Professional Learning contains the essential information, tools, and examples teachers and school leaders need to create, manage, and sustain successful collaborative groups. Designed to be a hands-on resource, this practical guide shows you how to:
Advocate for collaborative teacher learning
Develop and sustain collaborative research groups
Organize and conduct productive research projects
Address issues of ethics, leadership, and group dynamics
Evaluate and sustain collaborative learning activities
Now in its second edition, this international best-selling book has been revised and updated. It focuses on helping people overcome some of the most common obstacles to successful publication. Lack of time? An unconscious fear of rejection? Conflicting priorities? In this book Abby Day explains how to overcome these obstacles and create publishable papers for journals most likely to publish them.
The Map: A Beginner's Guide to Doing Research in Translation Studies
This book is intended as a guide for student who are required to undertake research in Translation Studies and present it in written and/or oral form. It is not an introduction to Translation Studies as such; we assume that readers already have a basic familiarity with the field. The Map aims to provide a step-by-step introduction to doing research in an area which, because of its interdisciplinary nature, can present the inexperienced researcher with a bewildering array of topics and methodologie.
Sponsored by the Association of Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), the second edition of this groundbreaking handbook updates and expands its review of the research, theory, issues, and methodology that constitute the field of educational communications and technology. Organized into seven sections, it profiles and integrates the following elements of this rapidly changing field: theoretical foundations, hard technologies, soft technologies, instructional design, instructional strategies, instructional message design, and research methodologies.
