Successful Dissertations: The Complete Guide for Education, Childhood and Early Childhood Studies Students

Product Description

Whether looking for guidance on the whole process, needing help with conducting a literature review or interpreting your quantitative and qualitative data, this accessible and empowering guide will take you through the dissertation process and provide all the information you need to make the most of your research project.

This edition includes:
- new discussions on critical analysis and the use of internet and social media research data
- an expanded chapter on quantitative method and a new section on mixed methods research
- case studies from a broader range of education and early childhood settings, both formal and informal
- an extended range of types of data analysis discussed
- updated references and recommended reading suggestions throughout, reflecting changes in legislation
- a glossary of key terms
- new end-of-chapter reflective tasks
- a new companion website providing all checklists and templates in the book as downloadable resources as well as new mind mapping templates, a supervisor record form, sample ethics form, sample letters to research settings, a pre-submission final checklist, research proposal examples and guidance on setting out tables, figures, appendices and managing your endnotes and reference list

Successful Dissertations is the essential guide for all undergraduate researchers starting a dissertation project in an Education department.

Review

[A] clear and comprehensive guide ... [that] is systematic, pragmatic, interesting and easy-to-read ... [The] authors have successfully distilled and described the common features associated with the process [of writing a dissertation]. The combination of comprehensiveness and depth makes this book a very useful companion, not only for undergraduates, but also for researchers at graduate and postgraduate level ... [It] provides a powerful toolkit for writing successful dissertations.
Evaluation and Research in Education (of the first edition)

There's much in this publication which would meet [undergraduate requirements], with a plethora of features making for engaging page layouts and a digestible text ... A particular strength of this book is the frequent references to the numerous sources of support and guidance available to the student in a higher education context ... This is a really useful work.
Studies in Higher Education (of the first edition)

Written specifically for undergraduate Education students this book takes those working on their dissertations through all of the necessary steps required to create a successful piece of research. This text charts the process methodically and logically from the beginning conceptual phases right through to method, ethical concerns, data collection and analysis, and finally putting it all together. Essential reading for student researchers.
Simon Asquith, School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK

About the Author

Caron Carter is Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Mark O'Hara is Professor and Associate Dean of Student Learning Experience in the Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences at Birmingham City University, UK.

Janet Kay is Principal Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Jonathan Wainwright is Principal Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Pam Dewis is Principal Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.