Methodological Choice and Design

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction and Foundations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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3. Introduction and foundations

   1. Bridging and Blending Disciplines of Inquiry: Doing Science and Changing Practice and Policy

      • Lina Markauskaite, Peter Freebody, Jude Irwin

      Pages 3-15

   2. Knowledge and Epistemology in Scholarship , Practice and Policy : Research-as-Science and Research-as-Project

      • Peter Freebody, Lina Markauskaite, Jude Irwin

      Pages 17-34

4. Research Approaches for Innovation and Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35

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5. Research approaches for innovation and change

   1. Design-Based Research

      • Peter Reimann

      Pages 37-50

   2. Design-Based Research : Reflections on Some Epistemological Issues and Practices

      • Richard Walker

      Pages 51-56

   3. Action Research in Education and Social Work

      • Susan Groundwater-Smith, Jude Irwin

      Pages 57-69

   4. Action Research and Professional Learning : Some Reflections on Inquiries that Advance Professional Knowledge and Practice

      • Robyn Ewing

      Pages 71-77

   5. Ethnomethodological Research in Education and the Social Science s: Studying ‘the Business, Identities and Cultures’ of Classrooms

      • Peter Freebody, Jill Freiberg

      Pages 79-92

   6. Drama Education, Ethnomethodology, and ‘Industrious Chatter’

      • Michael Anderson

      Pages 93-100

   7. Negotiated Ethnography : The Possibilities for Practice

      • Debra Hayes

      Pages 101-110

   8. Provoking Change – The Role of Research in Institutional Learning and Organisational Change

      • Ken Johnston

      Pages 111-117

   9. Drawing on the Arts, Transforming Research: Possibilities of Arts-Informed Perspectives

      • Ardra L. Cole, J. Gary Knowles

      Pages 119-131

   10. Investigating the Liminal in Professional Education Through Arts-Informed Research

       • Robyn Ewing

       Pages 133-139

6. Classical Research Approaches in New Social and Political Contexts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141

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7. Classical research approaches in new social and political contexts

   1. Historical Analysis : New Approaches to Postcolonial Scholarship and the Subcontinent

      • Tim Allender

      Pages 143-155

   2. Postcolonial Scholarship in Social Justice Research

      • Ruth Phillips

      Pages 157-166

   3. Analysing Policy as Discourse: Methodological Advances in Policy Analysis

      • Susan Goodwin

      Pages 167-180

   4. Policy Analysis and Social Transformation : Making Connections Between Policy Fields and Contemporary Social Life

      • Amanda Elliot

      Pages 181-186

Beginning and well-seasoned researchers alike face significant challenges in understanding the complexities of research designs arising from both within and across methodological paradigms, and in applying them in ways that maximise impact on knowledge, practice, and policy. This volume engages educational and social researchers in a scholarly debate offering some crucial re-interpretations of established research methodologies in light of contemporary conditions and critical introduction to some contemporary research approaches yet to gain general recognition. This book is a contemporary vademecum for researchers, practitioners and graduate students on research methodologies and designs for educational and social change in today’s world. The chapters chart and analyse the conceptual and practical complexities of a variety research designs for contemporary educational and social work research. This anthology, taken overall, provides readers with the knowledge and understanding needed not only to design technically sound and coherent research studies, but also to develop methodologically innovative research projects that cross the boundaries between different methodological traditions to the benefit of scholarship, policy, and practice. The chapters cover nine research approaches: - Design-based research - Action research - Ethnomethodological research - Negotiated ethnography - Arts-informed research - Historical analysis and postcolonial scholarship - Policy analysis - Comparative research - Quantitative modelling of correlational and multi-level data The book provides a critical discussion of epistemological questions and methodological frontiers: - Knowledge and epistemology in scholarship, practice and policy - Digital knowledge and digital research - Emerging methodological challenges for educational research - Challenges and futures for social work and social policy research methods - Methodology and the knowledge industry

• Academic Rigour
• Classroom Interaction
• Comparative Research
• Contemporary Social Research
• Digital Knowledge
• Digital Research
• Educational Research
• Educational and Social Problems
• Epistemic and Practical Complexities
• Epistemological Frameworks
• Ethnography
• Ethnomethodology
• Historical Analysis
• Methodological Approach
• Methodological Innovations
• Policy and Practice
• Postcolonial Scholarship
• Research Methodologies
• School Reform
• Social Justice Research
• Social Work

• Fac. Education & Social Work, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

  Lina Markauskaite, Peter Freebody, Jude Irwin

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