Sage Publications Doing Educational Research: Overcoming Challenges In Practice

Every educational research project has challenges and obstacles that need to be managed and overcome. This book uses real case studies employing a wide range of research methodologies and drawn from educational contexts across Europe to explore these challenges offering flexible and universal guidance that you can apply to your own research. Published in partnership with EERA, this book is: ·    Realistic and informed: It explores a range of perspectives on educational research, from planning to data collection to international collaboration ·    Challenging: It integrates a holistic and critical view on the process of educational research ·    Culturally aware: It covers a variety of research projects from different countries and encourages you to challenge dominant perspectives in education This is the first major English language textbook for postgraduate and postdoctoral education researchers that represents and explores the range of research traditions that exist throughout Europe and what they mean in practice. Review "This refreshing book leaves standard methods texts behind, offering emerging researchers a truly unique set of practical insights into the complexity of methodological dilemmas and challenges they might face in the  unpredictable real world of educational settings;  immersing readers in diverse, authentic examples from international studies will help develop open-mindedness, criticality, intercultural awareness and reflexivity." -- Dr Sara Hennessy This collection of work by international scholars and experienced researchers within the field of social science offers fresh insights and makes a significant contribution to the burgeoning landscape of educational research. Compelling arguments based upon an eclectic range of concrete examples of empirical research drawn from multiple sites and lines of enquiry challenge the taken-for-granted assumptions, epistemological perspectives and more traditional approaches which serve to encourage readers to push the boundaries and contemplate new ways of seeing, doing, analysing, interpreting and understanding educational research. The adoption of a questioning and critically reflective stance not only enables readers to recognise the possibilities but moreover the challenges, pitfalls and lessons learned from different approaches to educational research, which are succinctly captured in researcher checklists. A recurring theme which permeates this book is the desire to engage in ethical research practice that has integrity, particularly against the backdrop of uncertainty and growing concerns about the future direction/s of educational research. Early career and experienced researchers will find this an indispensable resource.   -- Dr Paula Nadine Zwozdiak-Myers About the Author Marit Honerød Hoveid is professor of pedagogy at department of education and lifelong learning at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Her first degree Cand.Polit in Social Pedagogy is from the University of Oslo in 1989, and her PhD from NTNU in 2009. She has worked in teacher education for over 16 years but is now working with a disciplinary approach to pedagogy/education at NTNU. Her research is centered around foundational questions related to education, teaching and learning, and to methodology of research. Hoveid has a longstanding relationship with EERA, her term as secretary general ended in 2016. She is now a senior fellow of the Emerging Researchers group. Lucian Ciolan, PhD is professor of Educational Research & Policy at University of Bucharest, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, where he is also serving as dean. His main academic fields of interest include (but are not limited to): influencing decision-making through public / educational policy, cognitive neurosciences applied in behavioral change, learning research and teacher education.  Starting with 2014, Lucian became member of the EERA Council, repre