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Education has continued to grow in stature and significance as an academic discipline. In addition to world renowned research studies the growth of education has been seen in the methodology and methods underpinning its research. The BERA/SAGE Handbook of Educational Research provides a cutting edge account of the research and methodology that is creating new understandings for education research, policy and practice. Over two volumes, the handbook addresses educational research in six essential components: Section 1: Understanding Research Section 2: Planning Research Section 3: Approaches to Research Section 4: Acquiring Data Section 5: Analysing Data Section 6: Reporting, Disseminating and Evaluating Research Featuring contributions from more than 50 of the biggest names in the international field, The BERA/SAGE Handbook of Educational Research represents a very significant contribution to the development of education.
Researching in Digital Environments
Researching in Digital Environments
The variety and availability of networked devices such as tablets, mobile phones, and laptops, and the proliferation of online environments such as social networking sites, and computer gaming worlds are reconfiguring learning and education. As Haythornthwaite suggests, new technologies are ‘rewriting communication networks, creating new spaces and relationships, restructuring knowledge networks, challenging identities, and changing the location, evaluation, and accessibility of information resources and people’ (Haythornthwaite, 2015, p. 292). Given this context, it is important to conceptualise and research the digital aspects of learning and education. Indeed, the proliferation of the digital into all aspects of education and social life means that investigating the role of new technologies becomes a concern ...
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