PART ONE: RESEARCH IS METHODOLOGY
What Is Research?
What Is Methodology?
PART TWO: THE PERVASIVE NATURE OF METHODOLOGY
Looking: Seeing beyond the Known
Listening: Issues of Voice
Reading: Purpose and Positionality
Questioning: The Focus of Research
PART THREE: MAKING RESEARCH PUBLIC
Research Design: Shaping the Study
Reporting Research: Telling the Story
Research Action: Next Steps
Peter Clough is Professor of Education at the University of
Brighton. Often using innovative, arts-based qualitative
methodologies, his research is concerned particularly with the
inclusion of marginalised voices, and spans all age phases. Among
his many publications are Inclusion in the Early
Years (Sage), and Narratives and Fictions in
Educational Research (OUP). Recent research includes
the Family Literacy in Prisons project in collaboration
with the Prison Advice and Care Trust.
Cathy Nutbrown is President of Early Education and Professor of
Education in the School of Education at the University of
Sheffield. Her research over the last 30 years, has focussed on
young children’s learning and work with parents to support young
children’s literacy development. She won an ESRC Award for
Research with Outstanding Impact on Society and a Nursery World
Lifetime Achievement Award. She is author of over 150 publications
including Early Literacy Work with Families (with Hannon
and Morgan, Sage, 2005), Early Childhood Educational Research
(Sage, 2019), and Home Learning Environments for Young Children
(with Clough, Davies and Hannon, Sage, 2022).
Justifying why this is one of the best books around on methodology
is easy when the author′s own students provide that evidence.
Clough and Nutbrown′s 3rd edition provides an important book for
undergraduate, masters and doctoral students in education and the
wider social sciences. This book will not only increase creative
and critical capacities of researchers, but increase understandings
of how pervasive methodology is when making findings public within
the research process
Dr. Richard Race
Senior Lecturer in Education, Roehampton University Finally, a book
that clearly distinguishes methodology from methods. Excellent
layout which aids comprehension. Great for the novice and competent
researcher
Karen Wild
Lecturer in Nursing, Keele University A fresh approach to research.
Students will enjoy the activities and examples of what research
can be
Ally Dunhill
Director of Teaching and Learning, Faculty of Education. Hull
University This interactive and refreshing text guides researchers
to address methodology pervasively. The authors want to help
research bring about change - in the researcher, the researched and
the user
Prof. Collette Tayler
The University of Melbourne Simplicity and clarity are the
hallmarks of this book, with a strong student orientation in
writing style, content and reader aids. One is spoken to, rather
than down to, and each chapter includes useful activities,
summeries and references.
G. E. Gorman
Online Information Review
Written in clear language, this book contains figures and tables
enabling readers to visualise key ideas. Activities throughout
encourage students to reflect and engage with the ideas discussed,
thereby making this guide highly interactive. Though aimed at
students doing dissertations, it will be useful for any general
practitioner/reader entering the field of research or undertaking
qualitative social research.
*Wajihah Hamid, research assistant, Asia Research Institute,
Singapore*
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