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Bennett, Dawn; Smith, Erica; Bennett, Sue; Chan, Philip; Bobis, Janette; Harrison, Neil; Seddon, Terri; Shore, Sue – Australian Educational Researcher, 2013
Educational research has long been the subject of lively and agitated debate, not least because of its diversity. Ranging in scope from academic development and broad-scale policy research through to student engagement and discipline-specific research, it includes methods of traditional academic inquiry and investigations and also less traditional…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Online Surveys, Teacher Researchers
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Smith, Erica; Clayton, Berwyn – International Journal of Training Research, 2012
This paper is a preliminary investigation of the place that theory plays in vocational education and training (VET) research. Vocational education and training is an academic discipline, whose theory base has not previously been analysed in detail. The VET research community considers itself to be somewhat undervalued both by the broader education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational Research, Theory Practice Relationship
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Holden, Rick; Smith, Erica – International Journal of Training Research, 2009
The paper reports on a study examining the issues facing vocational education and training (VET) practitioners who aspire to undertake formal research and move towards publishing their research. Research participants were drawn from attendees at a publishing workshop that was mounted at the 2008 conference of the Australian Vocational Education…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Teacher Researchers, Educational Research, Problems