This book is a practical, down-to-earth guide for people who wish to conduct research. It is aimed at those new to research and assumes no prior knowledge of the issues covered. It will also appeal to those people who have al- ready conducted some research and who are interested in finding out more about other research methods that are available to them.
When I entered higher education as a lecturer about 20 years ago I was confused and slightly mistrustful about education academics’ obsession with theory, paradigm and the ‘ologies’, half-thinking that this pre- occupation with the vocabulary of the philosophy of science had not a little to do with Maureen Lipman’s ‘You get an ology, you’re a scientist!’ For those who didn’…