Researching Learning and Teaching with Adults: An Introduction

ISBN-13: 9781642674682 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Ralf St Clair

Opis

The book is organized in four parts. A satisfying research project has coherence across the various parts (research question, methodology, methods, claim to knowledge) and the parts of the book reflect these four areas. .

Spis treści

Introduction Part One: Thinking like a researcher 1: Entering into research 2: Research objects and research questions 3: Ethics in research, or doing the right thing 4: Acknowledging knowledge Part Two: Creating data 5: Learning from data 6: Doing good work 7: Interviews 8: Observations 9: Documents and other existing cultural resources 10: Surveys 11: Focus group 12: Self-reporting methods 13: Secondary data Part Three: From data to knowledge 14: Descriptive methodologies 15: Relational methodologies 16: Causational methodologies 17: Representing research

O autorze

Ralf St. Clair is Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria in Canada. Ralf has worked in community education and universities in the United States and Canada as well as his native United Kingdom. He has a strong commitment to the education of adults, and has published books and articles on research, teaching approaches with adults and the importance of adult literacy. He has taught research to new researchers for many years.