Researching Technology Education

Methods and Techniques

• Publisher: BRILL
• Pages: 219
• ISBN_10: 9087903251
  ISBN_13: 9789087903251
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Education / General , Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Science / Psychology , Juvenile Nonfiction / Science & Nature / General ,

Description:... This third volume in the International Technology Education Series provides insights into developments in technology education research in terms of methods and techniques. The importance of the book is that it highlights the uniqueness of the area of technology education in terms of content, and learning and teaching processes, and the need to provide methods and techniques to capture this uniqueness when undertaking research. The book comprises research methods and techniques being used by a range of current researchers. Each chapter includes details of the method or technique, but does so in terms of a project where it was used. This provides important contextual material that will help researchers when developing research projects. The book contains research methods and techniques that are new in general as well as ones new to technology education and ones that are variations to existing methods and techniques to make them suitable for use in technology education research.