Practitioner-Based Enquiry Principles for Postgraduate Research

How do you carry out small-scale research into your own institutional practices? How can you produce a useful and accessible report? Learning organizations such as schools and colleges, teaching hospitals, police staff colleges and training agencies often require their students to contribute to the process of formulating curriculum policy, evaluating the outcomes of planned learning, unravelling knotty teaching problems, and so on. This involvement often carries with it some notion of research, enquiry or review. To enquire into ones own institutional practices may, on first encounter, appear simple. However, research is a complex activity involving question setting, theorizing, data gathering and analysis and report writing. This book helps students understand these elements so that they carry out useful research and produce accessible research reports. This book has been written specifically for postgraduate students carrying out small-scale research projects in and around their work environments and for those undertaking research projects as part of their higher education courses. The book will also be useful to teachers, tutors, lecturers and trainers who want to use the concept of Practioner-Based Enquiry to enquire into their own institutional practices, and produce reports which can be submitted for academic credits leading to the award of certificates and degrees from universities and other professional bodies.Murray, Louis is the author of 'Practitioner-Based Enquiry Principles for Postgraduate Research' with ISBN 9780750707725 and ISBN 0750707720.