Engaging with educational change: voices of practitioner inquiry (original) (raw)

2018, Journal of Education for Teaching

This is a gem of a research methods book that honours the research backgrounds of Nind, Curtin and Hall through its interactive, inclusive and pedagogic approach to engaging the reader in her various guises whether as practitioner, student, or less/more experienced researcher. It is a book to 'have on hand' at all times as an aide-memoire. Assumptions about pedagogy abound and it is a term that can be applied freely and with abandon on educational research methods courses. This book confronts 'pedagogy' head on in all its nuance and complexity and relates it clearly to 'theoretical stance, pedagogical context and research approach' (236). There is no sleight of hand: the authors 'appear' often and in their own voice within the text itself, reflexively and ethically leading the reader through decision processes that have to be made in any research project that is so centrally concerned with thinking, being and doing, where decisions that have to be made are always value-laden and never 'innocent' (236). However, the text avoids being over-directive. Indeed, one of its pleasures is the way it leaves the reader with the sense of new possibilities of approaches to pedagogy in ways that can enrich and illuminate the practice of social methods research.

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