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Geography Education Research Methods

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Geography Education Research in the UK: Retrospect and Prospect

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This chapter explores the influences on the researcher’s choice of research methods in geography education. In doing so it inevitably touches on the types of research themes that tend to be chosen by geography education researchers, and on the scale and focus of their research.

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Notes

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    Morgan also criticises the ‘doctoral experience’ of many education researchers, which he believes increase the problems of ‘Methodism’.

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    Nonetheless, there may be very significant differences in the funding and staffing available to complete the research, the resources at the researcher’s disposal, the existing support structures, and the means by which research findings can be disseminated.

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    The British Education Research Association (BERA 2011) guidelines act, for British researchers in education, as a standard for the review of ethical matters before any research is undertaken.

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Butt, G. (2020). Geography Education Research Methods. In: Geography Education Research in the UK: Retrospect and Prospect. International Perspectives on Geographical Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25954-9_4

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