The VIP-CLEAR (Voices in a Pandemic--Children's Lockdown Experience Applied to Recovery) project aims to explore younger children's experiences of lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to inform their recovery and resilience to future social shocks. Focused on designing research methods that magnified their un-brokered voices, we wanted to…

This case study describes how concept mapping can enable researchers to uncover rich depictions of school leaders' understandings and practices of educational leadership. Concept mapping has been described by William Trochim and Mary Kane as a technique that produces a visual picture or a map of individuals or a group's ideas. Although the…

This case reports on an innovative method for interviewing, which is semi-structured, and involves the construction of a visual or spatial map. This method is termed Concept Structuring Analysis Task, and it helps the interviewer to gather information on interviewees' thoughts, ideas, and beliefs. The method is especially useful when the…

This case study provides an account of the conceptual and ethical aspects of developing a 3-year research project into youth transitions, examining several contextual challenges that arose during its development. It highlights the importance of developing a rigorous conceptual framework and provides a practical example of the process of its…

Concept mapping is a research method often used to assess participants' knowledge of a topic. Our project studied how preservice teachers' knowledge of challenging behaviour changes (or not) during their final professional teaching experience. We asked the participants to make a concept map before and after their final professional teaching…

This case study is based on the research conducted as a part of a doctoral study, which aimed to explore diverse students' experiences, representations and understandings of personal development and personal development planning at one British university. The topic was particularly current and important because all universities in the United…

Making connections becomes increasingly important as students proceed through middle school and high school. This book shows ways of embedding connective processes in instruction in grades 9-12. Problems invite mathematical modeling, unify diverse content, call for different representations, and encourage students to look back at their work to…