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Fezile Sibanda; Máiréad Dunne – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2024
This case study concerns the use of one-to-one storytelling inspired by Ubuntu philosophy as a research method. Ubuntu is a Bantu, Nguni (African) philosophy that is encapsulated in the saying, "I am because we are, and since we are, therefore I am." This inspired the use of one-to-one storytelling as a method, as it provided space for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Story Telling, African Culture, Personal Narratives
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Peter R. Gardner – College Teaching, 2024
Reflective essays have become common in higher education, especially for modules and programmes focused on the development of practical skills. This paper analyses the efficacy of reflective essays specifically for social research methods education and training. In order to do so, a thematic analysis of qualitative survey data from undergraduate…
Descriptors: Reflection, Higher Education, Essays, Research Methodology
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Mary Bottomley; Jodie Bradley; Lisa Clark; Bryan Collis; Bojana Daw Srdanovic; Victoria Farnsworth; Annie Ferguson; Dan Goodley; Andrew Fox; Nikita K. Hayden; Charlotte Lawthom; Rebecca Lawthom; Claudia Magwood; Robert McLean; Ian Middleton; Alison Owen; Matty Prothero; Simon Rice; Simon Richards; Katherine Runswick-Cole; Kelly Scargill; Rohit Shankar; Toni Ann Wood – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: We are a research team of clinical, academic and advocacy-based researchers with and without learning disabilities, working on the "Humanising Healthcare" (for people with learning disabilities) project. The project is dedicated to finding and sharing healthcare practices that enhance the lives of people with learning…
Descriptors: Ethics, Learning Disabilities, Guidelines, Researchers
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Maria Fernandes-Jesus; Lorna Hamilton; Catherine Heinemeyer; Jude Parks – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2024
This report describes and reflects upon an approach to embedding psychological literacy within the core Research Methods curriculum in a small university in the United Kingdom. Psychology students were involved in the 'Living Lab: Feeding the Campus' project, an interdisciplinary network of students and staff aiming to find solutions for local…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Psychological Studies, Psychology
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Rainford, Jon – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2020
This paper examines two contrasting creative methods; a drawing task and a LEGO building task used in a study exploring the gap between policy and practice in widening participation to higher education across two different types of university in England. These creative methods were used within 16 semi-structured interviews in seven universities to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Creativity, Freehand Drawing
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Clarke, Emma; Visser, John – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2019
This paper considers the challenges experienced by a doctoral student engaging in qualitative research. It examines the difficulties experienced in selecting an appropriate approach from the traditional methodologies. A pragmatic methodology which provides the researcher with the opportunity to utilise a range of strategies to answer the research…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Educational Research, Student Research, Graduate Students
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Quirk-Marku, Catharine – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2019
This article focuses attention on influences that affect Early Career Teachers' (ECTs') professionalism during their process of learning to teach. The main purpose is to generate an approach informed by Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) and evaluate the relevance of this approach to research influences affecting ECTs' professionalism and…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Professionalism, Theories, Teacher Persistence
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Gregson, Daniel – Education Sciences, 2020
Rising to the demands of academic writing, scholarship and research is challenging for many practitioners in post compulsory education. Only a small number manage to see their research through to completion and write-up. Therefore, their work is under-represented in peer-reviewed, published literature in the field of educational research. This…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Teaching Methods, Academic Language, Writing (Composition)
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McDermott, Hilary; Liasi, Abigail; Newport, Roger – Psychology Teaching Review, 2020
Developing student's confidence with qualitative research methods presents a challenge to many educators and is even more of a challenge when the 'educator' themselves are unfamiliar with such methods. This paper offers a three-way reflective account of bringing one such colleague 'into the fold'; their journey to the 'dark side.' It documents the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Theses, Student Research, Supervision
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Nind, Melanie – Oxford Review of Education, 2020
This paper takes the concept of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), which is well known in teacher education, and applies it in research methods education where it has not been previously used. It asks how experienced social science research methods teachers, who know their subject (method) well, teach advanced social research methods to others.…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Social Science Research, Research Methodology, Research Skills
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Turner, Rebecca; Sutton, Carole; Gray, Claire; Stevens, Sebastian; Swain, Julie – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2018
Research methods education is a challenging area for lecturers and students to engage with; students regularly demonstrate negative dispositions to research methods and lecturers struggle with issues such as curriculum marginalisation. However, employers increasingly demand graduates equipped with skills as researchers. Consequently, in…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Research Methodology, Higher Education, Learner Engagement
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Maria Kmita – Qualitative Research Journal, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to address participants' humorous provocations as a part of informal interactions between participants and researcher that can be treated just like the research data. By means of autoethnographic analysis, the author explores the expectations of the researcher and participants that humour research entails and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Humor, Interpersonal Relationship
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Uwimpuhwe, Germaine; Singh, Akansha; Higgins, Steve; Coux, Mickael; Xiao, ZhiMin; Shkedy, Ziv; Kasim, Adetayo – Journal of Experimental Education, 2022
Educational stakeholders are keen to know the magnitude and importance of different interventions. However, the way evidence is communicated to support understanding of the effectiveness of an intervention is controversial. Typically studies in education have used the standardised mean difference as a measure of the impact of interventions. This…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Multivariate Analysis, Bayesian Statistics
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Heron, Emma – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2020
This article reflects on a novel method to elicit understanding of students' journeys. At a time when universities need to know much more about their students, sector understanding runs the risk of being limited and rather shallow. Knowledge tends to rely on broad-brush descriptions of student life derived from surveys, questionnaires and student…
Descriptors: Friendship, Student Experience, Higher Education, Listening
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Outhwaite, Deborah – Management in Education, 2018
This article analyses the flow-line around the methodology used inside an educational research process that was originally established to examine the expansion of the International Baccalaureate's Diploma Programme (IBDP) in England. This article analyses the research question, then assesses the research focus, aims and objectives. The article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Advanced Placement Programs, Research Methodology, Educational Research
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