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Husband, Gary – Education Sciences, 2020
This article explores the complex relationship between researcher and respondent through shared experience and interaction in the interview processes. Ethical considerations related to the balance of power and potential for change in respondents' professional actions and decisions post-interview are discussed whilst problematizing the concept of…
Descriptors: Ethics, Data Collection, Semi Structured Interviews, Qualitative Research
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Veletsianos, George; Shaw, Ashley – Learning, Media and Technology, 2018
This study investigates the audiences that scholars imagine encountering online and the ways in which these audiences impact scholars' online participation and presentation of self. Prior research suggests that imagined audiences affect what users share and how they present themselves on social media, but little research has examined this topic in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scholarship, Educational Researchers, College Faculty
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Billot, Jennie; Rowland, Susan; Carnell, Brent; Amundsen, Cheryl; Evans, Tamela – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2017
Teaching and learning research in higher education, often referred to as the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), is still relatively novel in many academic contexts compared to the mainstay of disciplinary research. One indication of this is the challenges those who engage in SoTL report in terms of how this work is valued or considered…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Instruction, Learning, Educational Research
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Impedovo, Maria Antonietta; Ligorio, Maria Beatrice – Professional Development in Education, 2016
This paper investigates teachers' agency in relation to their professional development. In particular, we refer to research skills and attitude in-service teachers may acquire while attending an international master of research in education. A semi-structured interview was administrated to nine in-service teachers, coming from three different…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Inservice Teacher Education, International Education, Faculty Development
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Schuwer, Robert; Janssen, Ben – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
To find out what is needed to speed up the adoption of open sharing and reuse of learning materials and open online courses in publicly funded Dutch institutions of Higher Education, a qualitative research study was conducted in fall 2016. This study examined issues of willingness of educators and management, barriers and enablers of adoption, and…
Descriptors: Open Source Technology, Educational Researchers, Shared Resources and Services, Barriers
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Bøe, Marit; Hognestad, Karin; Waniganayake, Manjula – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2017
This article explores qualitative shadowing as an interpretivist methodology, and explains how two researchers participating simultaneously in data collection using a video recorder, contextual interviews and video-stimulated recall interviews, conducted a qualitative shadowing study at six early childhood centres in Norway. This paper emerged…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Early Childhood Education, Leadership
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Holligan, Chris; Wilson, Michael – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
Drawing on insights from phenomenological sociology and various strands of socio-cultural theory, this paper reports the findings of a qualitative investigation into critical incidents as formative influences in the research orientation and research cultivation of 22 academics working in research-intensive university education departments. The…
Descriptors: Critical Incidents Method, Research Universities, Educational Research, Educational Researchers
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Miranda, Paula; Isaias, Pedro; Costa, Carlos J.; Pifano, Sara – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2017
Aim/Purpose: As e-Learning 3.0 evolves from a theoretical construct into an actual solution for online learning, it becomes crucial to accompany this progress by scrutinising the elements that are at the origin of its success. Background: This paper outlines a framework of e-Learning 3.0's critical success factors and its empirical validation.…
Descriptors: Program Validation, Success, Qualitative Research, Performance Factors
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Mehrani, Mehdi B. – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2015
The gap between research and practice has been an endemic feature of the Iranian English language teaching profession. This concern has recently received major attention by the call for empirical investigations to be conducted in order to improve the relationship between research and practice. The purpose of the present study was to investigate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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den Outer, Birgit; Handley, Karen; Price, Margaret – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
In the quest for a better reflexive research practice and to respond to the challenge of expanding on an education research repertoire, the authors consider "situational analysis," proposed as a post-modern approach to grounded theory using maps. Originally situating their research projects within a social constructivist theoretical…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Postmodernism, Reflective Teaching, Research Methodology
Nordman, Jenny – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This qualitative, grounded theory study investigated teacher perspectives on the relationship between executive function and reading aptitude. The influence of executive function may be underestimated in terms of its impact on reading aptitude, which could have significant implications on how reading aptitude is currently defined. The foundational…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Grounded Theory, Correlation, Sampling
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Tuck, Eve – High School Journal, 2012
This article discusses competing perspectives on the value of the General Educational Development (GED) credential. Although scholars and journalists debate the worth of the credential, urban youth continue to pursue the GED, especially as proxy for inadequate schooling. Using qualitative data from a participatory action research project, the…
Descriptors: Credentials, Educational Development, Action Research, Educational Researchers
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Ripley, Joan; Mitchell, Roxanne M.; Richman, John A. – Journal of School Public Relations, 2013
This instrumental case study explored how five newly appointed superintendents identified key stakeholders and built trust and social capital with stakeholders in their districts. Stakeholder, trust, and social capital theory were the lenses that guided this study. We utilized a pragmatic research design and thematic data analysis to interpret our…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Trust (Psychology), Social Networks, Case Studies
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Bronstein, J. – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2007
Introduction: This study reports the application of Ellis's behavioural model to the information seeking behaviour of Jewish studies scholars. Method: A qualitative study in which twenty-five scholars from four universities in Israel were interviewed using a semi-structured interview guide in which participants were encouraged to talk about…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Jews, Scholarship, Qualitative Research