Understanding, Designing and Conducting Qualitative Research in Education

Helps readers identify what is important about their project, how their research relates to previous work and how it may be used to bring about change at individual, community, national or even international levels. This work presents a strategy that focuses on the notion of the 'project' as an organising framework.

John Schostak is Professor and Director of the Centre for Applied Research in Education, University of East Anglia. He has been involved in around 40 funded projects involving ethnographies, evaluations and case studies of a range of organizations and professions from schooling, to journalism, to healthcare, to policing, to business and information technology.