Research Design: Text Based Research and Documentary Analysis

The video is a film of the lecture given by Professor Madeleine Arnot for the M.Phil, M.Ed, Ph.D and Ed.D courses on educational research. It offers students a chance to think about some recent debates about the role of theory in research, and the ways in which a theoretically informed study can be designed. The examples given derive from actual research projects.

This session, led by Dr Phil Gardner, considers approaches for engaging written, spoken and visual texts in educational research.

This session, led by Prof. Neil Mercer, offers students the opportunity to consider how talk is used by teachers and students in education and to understand the methods and techniques associated with the analysis of spoken dialogue in the classroom.

This lecture by Prof. Anna Vignoles introduces students to the principles of impact evaluation and provides interactive and practical examples of how education policies and practice can be evaluated.

This lecture by Prof. Pauline Rose introduces the nature of the educational research process and its particular characteristics, aims and traditions. We discuss some of the issues, questions and controversies arising. The purpose of this session is to equip students with an overview of the educational research terrain and to help them think about their own project within a broader context.

An introduction to education research by Prof. Anna Vignoles.