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Education Studies

Day 2 - November

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Today's session will be focusing carefully on the conception, planning and implementation of research projects.

Day 2 Materials:

Professor Dave Hall - ... (Warwick)

Dr Janet Goodall - Engaging all parents to raise achievement (Durham)

Session 2 - Paradigms, Methodology and Methods (November 2017) (Powerpoint)

Livesey Grids - Ontology, Epistemology, Methodology & Methods (PDF)

Session 3 - Planning a Small-scale Case Study (November 2017) (Powerpoint)

Research Design Task Handout (Word)

Session 4 - Next Steps and Feedback (November 2017) (Powerpoint)

Plenary M&M Planning Sheet (Word)

Plenary Handout Methodology Case Study (November 2017) (Word)

November Teaching Day Homework (Word)

Additional Readings:

Barker & Hoskins Five Propositions Paper (Word)

Denscombe Ground Rules (Word)

Archive 2015/16


Warwick Pre-reading

Hall, D. and Gunter, H. (2016) England. The Liberal State: Permanent Instability in the European Educational NPM Laboratory in Gunter, H., Grimaldi, E., Hall, D., and Serpieri, R. (Eds) New Public Management and the Reform of Education: European Lessons for Policy and Practice. London: Routledge


Hall, D., & McGinity, R. (2015). Conceptualizing teacher professional identity in neoliberal times: Resistance, compliance and reform. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 23(88).

Durham Pre-reading

Desforges, C. with Abouchaar, A. (2003) The Impact of Parental Involvement, Parental Support and Family Education on Pupil Achievements and Adjustment: A Literature Review, Department for Education and Schools. Available at: http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/6305/
 

Goodall, J. (2017a) From Project to Process. A report of the pilot of a toolkit for parental engagement. Bath: University of Bath. Available at: http://opus.bath.ac.uk/55375/8/Report_on_the_Pilot_of_a_Toolkit_for_Parental_Engagement_final_.pdf