Doing your research project : a guide for first-time researchers in education and social science

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• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part 1 Preparing the ground Approaches to educational research
• Planning the project
• Negotiating access, ethics and the problems of 'inside' research
• Keeping records, making notes and locating libraries
• Finding and searching information sources
• The literature review
• Part 2 Selecting methods of data collection Introduction
• The analysis of documentary evidence
• Designing and administering questionnaires
• Planning and conducting interviews
• Diaries Observation studies
• Part 3 Interpreting the evidence and reporting the findings Introduction
• Interpretation and presentation of the evidence
• Writing the report
• Postscript
• References
• Index