Using educational research to inform practice : a practical guide to practitioner research in universities and colleges / Lorraine Foreman-Peck and Christopher Winch.

Gives practical guidance on how educational research can inform professional practice. This book demonstrates the use (and mis-use) of research evidence in thinking about a range of important topics in further and higher education, such as, learning styles, deep and surface learning, dyslexia in hig...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Foreman-Peck, Lorraine
Other Authors: Winch, Christopher
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, ©2010.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. What's the use of practitioner research?
  • 2. Professional knowledge
  • 3. What is educational research anyway?
  • 4. 'Good practice' and evidence-based teaching
  • 5. Handle with care : reading and evaluating research
  • 6. Practitioner research in action : doing one's own research
  • 7. Models of practitioner research
  • 8. Standards in practitioner research
  • 9. Researching responsibly : the ethics of practitioner research
  • 10. Examples of practitioner research case studies.