Education Research: The Basics

Concise, engaging and accessible, Education Research: The Basics discusses key ideas about the nature and purpose of education research: what it can and cannot achieve, how it has been used in the past and where and how it has an impact.

Providing crucial insight into the work of education researchers, this book:

• Offers seven chapters, each representing a way of understanding the goals and methods of research conducted in the field
• Considers key thinkers in the field, such as Plato...