Doing Educational Research

Marit Honerød Hoveid is professor of pedagogy at department of education and lifelong learning at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Her first degree Cand.Polit in Social Pedagogy is from the University of Oslo in 1989, and her PhD from NTNU in 2009. She has worked in teacher education for over 16 years but is now working with a disciplinary approach to pedagogy/education at NTNU. Her research is centered around foundational questions related to education, teaching and learning, and to methodology of research. Hoveid has a longstanding relationship with EERA, her term as secretary general ended in 2016. She is now a senior fellow of the Emerging Researchers group.Lucian Ciolan, PhD is professor of Educational Research & Policy at University of Bucharest, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, where he is also serving as dean. His main academic fields of interest include (but are not limited to): influencing decision-making through public / educational policy, cognitive neurosciences applied in behavioral change, learning research and teacher education. Starting with 2014, Lucian became member of the EERA Council, representing Romania and now he is president of ARCE – Romanian Educational Research Association. Alongside his academic activity, Lucian was extensively involved in consultancy and capacity building programs in Europe and beyond, mainly focused on public policy and educational reforms. In this capacity, he is member of a professional network of trainers and consultants on policy change called International Centre for Policy Advocacy.Angelika Paseka is Professor for Educational Science with a bias on school education and professionalism at the University of Hamburg, Germany. She holds a doctorate in Sociology and has a post-doctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation) in Educational Science. She has been working in teacher education since 1992 at several institutions in Austria (College of Teacher Education/Vienna, University of Vienna and Linz) before changing to the University of Hamburg in 2010. Her current research interests focus teacher professionalism, uncertainty and family-school-partnership and she is expert in qualitative methods in educational research. She was for eight years council member of the Austrian Society for Research and Development in Education and in this time representing Austria in the EERA-council. She is co-founder and co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Bildungsforschung as well as author and co-author of several publications.Sofia Marques da Silva is Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal, in the field of Research Methodologies and Sociology of Education and member the Educational Research and Intervention Centre and INESC-TEC.  She holds a PhD in Educational Sciences since 2008 and has been doing research in the field of inclusion, diversity and youth and published at national and international level. She is the coordinator of the national project GROW.UP – Grow up in border regions in Portugal: young people, educational pathways and agendas” (FEDER/FCT) and the co-coordinator of Erasmus + Project #IBelong - Towards a Sense of Belonging in an Inclusive Learning Environment. She is editor-in-chief of the Journal Ethnography & Education (and was co-editor of international publications in education. She is convenor of the European Educational Research Association (EERA) and board member of the Portuguese Society of Education Sciences, representing it in the EERA council. She is an expert of the European network NESET II (Social Dimension of Education and Training), the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency and of the Programme Committee for the specific programme implementing Horizon 2020. She is deputy coordinator of the initiative Portugal INCoDe.2030, coordinating activities on digital inclusion and gender gap in digital technologies.

• PART I: Getting Ready for the UnexpectedAn Introduction to Challenges in Educational Research - Sofia Marques da Silva and Lucien CiolanChapter 1: Doing Educational Research - Marit Honerød Hoveid and Angelika PasekaPART II: Negotiating Research Contexts and Demands from the FieldChapter 2: Entering a Fluid Research Field - Maria P. Figueiredo and Nelson Gonçalves:Chapter 3. Using Photo-Elicitation Interviewing to Bridge Social Gaps - Karin Doolan and Linda LiebenbergChapter 4. Producing and Sharing Knowledge with a Research Field - Anja Sieber Egger, Gisela Unterweger and Christoph MaederPART III: Exploring Other Paths for InterpretationChapter 5: Doing Systematic Literature Reviews – ‘Net-Fishing’ or ‘Whale Hunting’? - Gábor HalászChapter 6: Doing Participatory Stories Research – Detoxing Narratives, - Sabine Krause, Gertraud Kremsner, Michelle Proyer and Raphael ZahndChapter 7: Doing Multi-Level Statistical Modelling with Hierarchically Nested Samples - Tim Mainhard, Theo Wubbels and Perry den Brok. Chapter 8: Doing Data Analysis – Collaboration, Creativity and Critique - Liselott Aarsand and Pål AarsandPART IV: Building a Common Ground for UnderstandingChapter 9: Discussing Sociological Gaps and Power Relations in an International Setting - Sarah Désirée LangeChapter 10: Addressing the Context in Cross-National Comparative Research - Herbert Altrichter, Miriam Galvin, Gerry McNamara and Joe O’Hara Chapter 11: Organising International Collaborative Research for Social Inclusion - Rocío García-Carrión, Aitor Gómez & Javier Díez-PalomarPART V: Bridging Research and PolicyChapter 12: Shaping the Research Puzzle in an Intervention Project - Lucian Ciolan, Romita Iucu, Anca Nedelcu and Catalina Ulrich HygumChapter 13: Navigating a Multi-Perspective, Multi-Level and Longitudinal Research - Tamara Katschnig, Corinna Geppert, Mariella Knapp, Michaela Kilian, Sonja Bauer-Hofmann and Tanja WerklChapter 14: Meeting the Expectations of Different Actors at the Science-Policy Interface – Monitoring of Education for Sustainable Development in Germany - Mandy Singer-Brodowski, Antje Brock and Nadine Etzkorn PART VI: Getting Ready for an Open FutureChapter 15: Educational Research – a Space of Risk and Uncertainty - Angelika Paseka, Marit Honerød Hoveid, Lucian Ciolan, Sofia Marques da Silva

"This refreshing book leaves standard methods texts behind, offering emerging researchers a truly unique set of practical insights into the complexity of methodological dilemmas and challenges they might face in the  unpredictable real world of educational settings;  immersing readers in diverse, authentic examples from international studies will help develop open-mindedness, criticality, intercultural awareness and reflexivity."