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Fitzgerald, Caitríona – Research in Education, 2021
This research note offers a critical reflection of the process of conducting qualitative research in the Irish primary school setting. The research discussed took place during the school year 2016-2017. It explored primary school children's understandings of citizenship and, the kinds of collective social actions they participated in as citizens…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Qualitative Research
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Stynes, Martin; Murphy, Timothy; McNamara, Gerry; O'Hara, Joe – Issues in Educational Research, 2018
In this paper, four critical friends meet to discuss qualitative research practices. Together they put one of their own case studies under the knife and deconstruct it to investigate the possibilities that knowledge work is complicated not only by the dynamics of socially constructed enterprises and the actors involved therein, but by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology
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Capobianco, Brenda M.; Ní Ríordáin, Máire – Educational Action Research, 2015
Action research provides valuable opportunities for preservice teachers to improve their practice, their understanding of their practice, and the situation in which their practice takes place. Moreover, action research empowers preservice teachers to critically examine an experience that demonstrates their potential to be influential researchers…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Science Teachers, Mathematics Teachers