Designing Research in Education by Jon Swain

Designing Research in Education by Jon Swain

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Summary

This accessible guide helps students understand why careful research design is important and provides a range of designs based on key methods along with case studies and examples, so they can critically compare and use the approach that best suits their project.

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Designing Research in Education by Jon Swain

This accessible guide helps students understand why careful research design is important and provides a range of designs based on key methods along with case studies and examples, so they can critically compare and use the approach that best suits their project.
This engaging and lively book is a landmark in the field of designing effective education researchIt presents successful strategies drawn from highly experienced researchers and provides accessible and useful advice for doctoral students and early career researchers. Highly recommended! -- Patrick Danaher
This is a very valuable resource... it draws on a wide range of research examples and includes useful reflection and commentary from leading researchers.
-- Paula Clarke
This book has the potential to inform and frame the next generation of research scholars in education. -- Stephen Dobson

This is a great book! It provides knowledge about the theoretical as well as the practical aspects of educational research. It is engaging and provides rich information from experienced researchers for doctoral students and early careers researchers.  It is interesting and easy to read. I would highly recommend it. 

-- Athina Tempriou
Jon Swain currently works at University College London where he is a senior researcher and lecturer. He mainly carries out qualitative research, which has included a series of numeracy and literacy projects in the post-16 sector. He has also written many articles on boys’ masculinities. Between 2008 and 2013, he was program leader for the MPhil/PhD; he also has extensive teaching experience on the EdD program and continues to supervise and tutor both PhD and EdD students. His professional career began as a primary school teacher, and he took a part-time MA at the Institute of Education in the late 1990s before completing his PhD in 2001.
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ISBN 13 9781446294253
ISBN 10 1446294250
Title Designing Research in Education
Author Jon Swain
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Sage Publications Ltd
Year published 2016-11-22
Number of pages 280
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