Educational Research

Through compelling examples, Brian Edmiston presents the case for why and how adults should play with young children to create with them a 'workshop for life'...

Investigating the role of imagination in teaching and learning in non-arts disciplines, this book shows that a lack of clarity about what imagination in higher education looks like impedes teachers fostering their students’ creativity. It explores successful strategies educators can use to encourage..

Including conceptual framework, epistemology, paradigm, theory, theoretical framework, and methodology/method, this book gives students the tools they need to understand existing education research literature and to produce theoretically-grounded work of their own...

From Practice to Praxis is an exploration of the development of ethical practice as it applies to the meaning of quality within the tradition of practitioner inquiry and participatory research...

From Practice to Praxis is an exploration of the development of ethical practice as it applies to the meaning of quality within the tradition of practitioner inquiry and participatory research...

This proceedings volume contains selected papers presented at the 2014 International Conference on Frontiers in Computer Education (ICFCE 2014), which was held December 24-25, 2014, in Wuhan, China. The objective of this conference was to provide a forum for different researchers in different fields..

This book investigates how schools have been defined by the state-mandated requirement on teachers to promote ‘fundamental British values’– an attempt to forge a British identity among young citizens within a multiracial, multicultural and multilingual society...

Tackling one of the most critical issues in education research today - how research methods are related to value and meaningfulness - this frontline volume presents an integrated approach to educational inquiry, where the focus is on creating meaningful findings that are not polarized by qualitative..

This book critically addresses some of the ways in which test results, performance statistics and other forms of big data are deployed in educational governance and practice, and some of the consequences of this deployment for what it means to be educated, to teach, and to learn. Recognising that nu..

This Handbook, the most comprehensive and up-to-date source available for college reading and study strategy practitioners and administrators, provides a thorough and systematic examination of theory, research, and practice in the field. This new edition features six new chapters and a more user-fri..

Published in 1989 in conjunction with the Council of Europe, this book is a major source of reference for those interested in the comparative study of primary education in Europe._x000D_  ..

This Handbook brings together a wide range of research on reading disabilities. It is distinguished by its developmental perspective and by its extension of current discussion and thinking beyond a narrowly defined psychometric perspective...