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Bellwood-Howard, Imogen – School Science Review, 2012
Designing investigative skills sessions for key stage 5 students based on field research in the Ghanaian savannah prompted reflection on the similarities and differences in the ways farmers and students learned about and applied scientific methodology. Circumstantial constraints mean that farmers' experiments were less controlled than those…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Scientific Methodology, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
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Ravitch, Sharon M. – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2014
Within the ever-developing, intersecting, and overlapping contexts of globalization, top-down policy, mandates, and standardization of public and higher education, many conceptualize and position practitioner research as a powerful stance and a tool of social, communal, and educational transformation, a set of methodological processes that…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Global Approach, Teacher Researchers, Educational Research
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McDougall, Anne; Jones, Anthony – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2006
Serious criticisms of research in information and communications technology (ICT) in education have been published recently in both the UK and the USA. This paper addresses several issues raised in these commentaries: a lack of sound theoretical underpinnings to our research, persistent neglect of the history of our sub-discipline, the choice of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Research Problems