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Practitioner research at doctoral level : developing coherent research methodologies / Pat Drake with Linda Heath.

Van Pelt Library LB2386 .D73 2011
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Drake, Pat.
Contributor:
Heath, Linda, 1949-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Doctoral students.
Dissertations, Academic--Research--Methodology.
Dissertations, Academic.
Dissertations, Academic--Research.
Methodology.
Physical Description:
viii, 131 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Abingdon, Oxon, England ; New York : Routledge, [2011]
Contents:
1 Introduction 1
2 Professional doctorates: equal but different? 7
What are professional doctorates? 8
Who undertakes practitioner research at doctoral level? 11
The production of knowledge on a doctorate 14
3 Relationship between doctoral research and professional life 19
Power and professional settings 21
Inhabiting the hyphens 25
Relationships with colleagues 27
Becoming practitioner researcher 29
4 Approaching grounded methodology 33
Methodological attitude to inquiry 34
What does validity mean in practitioner research? 35
Putting oneself in the frame 43
Becoming reflexive 45
5 Thinking about ethical considerations 47
Background to ethical processes 48
Professional ethics 50
Research ethics 52
Situational ethics and complications for insider researchers 53
6 What does doctoral pedagogy bring to practitioner research? 59
Researcher identity 61
Expanded learning and constructing new knowledge 63
Learning and work 66
What does learning to do research entail? 68
7 The shaping of doctoral knowledge and supervision 71
Aligning of academic and professional knowledge 72
Supervisors' academic and professional knowledge and experience 76
Perceptions of professional doctorates and impact on supervision 77
Training of supervisors and training for supervisors 81
Implications of expanded higher education for supervision 83
8 Impact of doctoral research and researcher identity 85
What is a research degree for? 85
Impact and public service policy 86
Universities'claims 87
Impact in relation to practice 90
Shaping researcher identity 94
9 Integrating academic and professional knowledge: writing the thesis 99
Creating new knowledge 101
Becoming author 104
Writing reflexivity 107.
ISBN:
9780415490214
0415490219
9780415490221
0415490227
9780203841006
020384100X
OCLC:
368024553

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