This review examines the kinds of relationship between research and practice that have
been envisaged in programmes designed to provide opportunities for beginning teachers to …

Writing is one of the main challenges doctoral students face in their process of becoming
researchers. Nonetheless, institutional initiatives to support writing processes are relatively …

Contents 1.1 empirical research–data 2 1.2 Quantitative and qualitative data 3 1.3 Relaxing
the qualitative–quantitative distinction 4 1.4 some simplifying devices 6 1.5 essentials and …

Education–An Anatomy of the Discipline focuses on the development of the discipline of
education, how it is understood and practised in contemporary universities, and the potential …

HANDBOOK OF RESEARCH IN SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING. Eli
Hinkel (Ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2005. Pp. xxii+ 1144. $260.00 cloth, $99.95 paper …

Fieldwork in Educational Settings is widely recognised as part of the essential reading for
the researcher in education. It instructs those new to qualitative educational research how to …

Research from within (insider research) that is done by members of the organisation under
study is, and feels very different from, research that is conducted by and provided to …

There is a burgeoning interest in how best to support and facilitate the development of
writing and writing output of research students. One pedagogy is the use of writing groups …

This article argues that the 'quality'debate in education research is not so much about quality
as about creating the conditions in which research and knowledge production in the field of …

“Up-to-date and accessible, this book manages to be both theoretically subtle and attuned to
the realities of classroom practice.” Dr Rachel Thomson, The Open University"[This] book is …