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Research Methods in Education for First-Time Researchers

This list is a small selection of popular resources for those carrying out research in Education for the first time. This guide is a supplement to the resources recommended for your course.

• Bibliography
• Journals
• Web Resources
• Research Methods on the Web

Bibliography

Action research for educational change / John Elliott Critical ethnography in educational research: a theoretical and practical guide / Phil Francis Carspecken Doing your research project: a guide for first-time researchers in education and social science / Judith Bell Doing research with children/ Anne Greig, Jayne Taylor and Tommy MacKay Doing your early years research project: a step-by-step guide / Guy Roberts-Holme Ethnography: principles in practice / Martyn Hammersley and Paul Atkinson Fieldwork in educational settings: methods, pitfalls, and perspectives / Sara Delamont The good research guide: for small-scale social research projects / Martyn Denscombe Research methods in education / Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion and Keith Morrison Researching children's experience: methods and approaches / edited by Sheila Greene and Diane Hogan Researching children's perspectives / edited by Ann Lewis and Geoff Lindsay Researching social life / edited by Nigel Gilbert A teacher's guide to classroom research / David Hopkins Writing for social scientists: how to start and finish your thesis, book or article / Howard S. Becker with a chapter by Pamela Richards Your research project: a step-by-step guide for the first-time researcher / Nicholas Walliman

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Journals

British Educational Research Journal British Journal of Sociology of Education International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education Journal of Curriculum Studies Journal of Education Policy

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Web Resources

Electronic Databases Essential List of Education databases BEI (British Education Index) http://www.leeds.ac.uk/bei/ BERA (British Educational Research Association) http://www.bera.ac.uk/ ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) http://www.eric.ed.gov/ Intute http://www.intute.ac.uk NFER (National Foundation for Research in Education) http://www.nfer.ac.uk/ OFSTED http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/

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Research Methods on the Web

Research Methods Knowledge Base (2006) http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/index.php

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  Page last updated : : 19 Mar 2010