Your Dissertation in Education

Your Dissertation in Education provides a systematic, practical approach to dissertation and project writing for students in education.

This is a revised edition of Nicholas Walliman's best-selling Your Undergraduate Dissertation, specifically developed for students from a range of educational disciplines, including teacher training, early childhood and education studies. This book is unique in being the first devoted to providing a complete overview of the dissertation process for education students.

Throughout the book use of practical examples, summary sections and additional references provide the reader with a comprehensive yet easy-to-read guide to ensure successful completion.

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Nicholas Walliman is a qualified architect and Senior Lecturer in the School of the Built Environment at Oxford Brookes University and a researcher associate in the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development. After many years of practice in architecture in the UK and abroad, he returned to academic life to do his PhD. This experience raised his interest in research theory and methods, and he was subsequently asked by the university to write a distance learning course to guide postgraduate students embarking on research degrees. This course provided the raw material and incentive for writing this book. He has subsequently published several other books on research theory and methods for students and practitioners at various levels of expertise. He is currently conducting research with a team of architects and environmental scientists as part of the Oxford Brookes Institute for Sustainable Development. They are engaged in nationally and internationally funded projects on a range of aspects of building technology, such as energy saving building envelope design, mitigation of the effects of floods on buildings and advanced construction methods. He has published numerous research papers on aspects of architectural technology. He is also supervising several PhD and Masters students. Despite this emphasis on science and technology, his work with research students covers many other aspects of architecture and its relationship to society, such as vernacular architecture, the effects of westernisation, architectural education, conservation, administration and sustainable design.

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PART ONE: INTRODUCTION TO THE DISSERTATION PROCESS What is a Dissertation? What is Educational Research? What's all this about Ethics? PART TWO: ESTABLISHING A FOCUS What will it be About? How do I Get Started? How do I Write a Proposal? How do I Write an Introduction? PART THREE: EXPLORING THE BACKGROUND TO THE TOPIC Where Do I Get Hold of all The Necessary Background Information? How Can I Manage all The Notes? What about Referencing? How do I Argue My Point Effectively? How do I Write a Literature Review? PART FOUR: CONDUCTING THE RESEARCH What Sorts of Data Will I Find and How Much do I Need? What's all this about Philosophy? How do I Conduct Effective Interviews? How do I Structure Effective Questionnaires? How do I Undertake Effective Observations? How do I Write a Methodology Chapter? PART FIVE: ANALYZING THE DATA AND IDENTIFYING CONCLUSIONS How do I Analyze Quantitative Data? How do I Analyze Qualitative Data? How do I Write a Discussion Chapter? PART 6: PRACTICAL GUIDANCE ON THE SUBJECT How can I Work Effectively with My Supervisor? What about Working and Planning My Time? How can I Manage a Long Piece of Writing? How can I Make my Work Look Interesting and Easy to Read? How do I Cope With Stress? Who else Might be Interested in My Writing?

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