Aims

To provide opportunities for professionals in education to:

• Further extend their knowledge and understanding of practitioner research approaches in education.
• Develop an empirical evidence base for the analysis of theory and practice and the application of research methodologies appropriate to the nature of the identified area.
• Identify issues for the design, planning and construction of a research proposal.

Learning Outcomes
After completing the module the student should be able to:
1 Critically analyse research methodologies and methods suited to educational research.
2 Examine the ethical dimensions of research practice.
3 Critically reflect upon the intellectual and physical resource implications of effective research design.
4 Critically explore the relevance of existing theory and evidence base to research design.