"Provide[s] excellent insights."--Times Educational Supplement, June 29, 2001

Geoffrey Walford, a renowned and experienced researcher, reflects upon the trials and tribulations and the problems and promises of conducting research - and also on the links between the idiosyncrasies and circumstances of researchers and what is possible in research. Research is revealed as a much more complicated process than is usually recognized, sometimes messy and disorganized, sometimes constrained in unexpected ways, but always challenging to both researcher and reader.
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Reflecting the trials and tribulations and the problems and promises of conducting research, this guide reveals it as a much more complex process than is usually recognised, often messy and disorganised. It looks at issues from choosing topics through methods to publication of findings.
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Product details

ISBN
9780826447029
Published
2001-06-01
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight
260 gr
Height
216 mm
Width
138 mm
Age
UP, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
208

Biographical note

Geoffrey Walford is Professor of Education Policy and a Fellow of Green College at Oxford University. He is the author of over 100 academic articles and books, and the Editor of the Oxford Review of Education.