Have you ever found that your initial research training--if indeed you received one--has proved not entirely adequate? Has you ever found research more complex or intractable than expected? If so, this book is for you. Drawing on examples from her own research and others, Linda Evans shows how, as reflective practioners, researchers as can develop more advanced methods and understandings.

Linda Evans has been a teacher, SENCO, lecturer, advisor and OFSTED inspector, and most recently editor and publisher of books on all aspects of SEN. She is currently working as an independent writer and consultant, and is editor of SENCO Week and G&T Update (Optimus).

Part 1: The need for improvement
1. Developing as an educational researcher
2. What's wrong with educational research
Part 2: Developing advanced research skills
3. Taking conceptualization seriously
4. Comparative analysis: trying to see the big picture
5. A Tale of Two Studies: a research puzzle to solve
6. The Suggestibility Issue
7. Telling it as it is
8. Tools of the Trade: developing coding and categorization skills
9. Developing theory
10. Beyond Theory: relevance and usefulness through the pragmatization of research
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