Preface to the third edition
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I Preparing the ground
1 Approaches to educational research
Actin research and the ‘teacher as researcher’model
Case study
The ethnographic style
Surveys
The experimental style
Narrative inquiry
Which approach?
Further reading
2 Planning the project
Selecting a topic
The ‘first thougts’list and establishing the focus of the study
Hypothesis or objectives?
The projest outline
Timing
Supervision
Intellectual property
Planning the project checklist
3 Negotiating access,ethics and the problems of inside research
4 Keeping records,making notes and locating libraries
5 Finding and searching information sources
6 The literature review
PART II Selection methods of data collection
7 The analysis of documentary evidence
8 Designing and administering questinnaires
9 Planning and conducting interviews
10 Diaries
11 Observation studies
PART III Interpreting the evidence and reporting the findings
Introduction
12 Interprtation and presentation of the evidence
13 Writing the report
Postscript
References
Index