Mobilising teacher researchers : challenging educational inequality / edited by Ann Childs and Ian Menter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Childs, Ann, 1957- editor.

Menter, Ian, 1949- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Action research in education--England.

Action research in education.

Academic achievement--England.

Academic achievement.

Educational equalization--England.

Educational equalization.

Children with social disabilities--Education--England.

Children with social disabilities.

Children with social disabilities--Education.

England.

Physical Description:

xi, 236 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Contents:

Who, how and why? : motives and agendas for key stakeholders in closing the gap / Ann Childs, Roger Firth and Ian Thompson

Closing the gap : test and learn : an unprecedented national educational research project / Richard Churches, Robin Hall and Juliet Brookes

Closing the evidence gap? : the challenges of the research design of the closing the gap : test and learn project / Ian Menter and Ian Thompson

Closing the gap and professional learning : two targets for a national project / Philippa Cordingley, Paul Crisp and Bart Crisp

Room in the toolbox? : the place of randomised controlled trials in educational research / Steve Higgins

The potential of teacher-led randomised controlled trials in education research / Richard Churches, Robin Hall and Steve Higgins

Building research capacity and relationships in schools : the consequences of involvement in 'closing the gap' / Ann Childs and Nigel Fancourt

Research ethics in 'closing the gap' : equipoise in randomised controlled trials in education / Nigel Fancourt

Teacher-researchers' expanding perceptions of research in a school-university collaborative research project / Els Laroes, Larike H. Bronkhorst, Sanne F. Akkerman, and Theo Wubbels

The future promise of RCTs in education : some reflections on the closing the gap project / Paul Connolly

What's not to like about RCTs in education? / Trevor Gale

Afterword / Ann Childs and Ian Menter.

Notes:

"This book emerges from a major innovative project carried out in England during 2013-15. The project was called 'Closing the Gap: test and learn."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138064607

1138064602

9781138064638

1138064637

OCLC:

1005741838