Design Research in Education: A Practical Guide for Early Career Researchers

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Design Research in Education is a practical guide containing all the information required to begin a design research project. Providing an accessible background to the methodological approaches used in design research as well as addressing all the potential issues that early career researchers will encounter, the book uniquely helps the early career researcher to gain a full overview of design research and the practical skills needed to get their project off the ground. Based on extensive experience, the book also contains multiple examples of design research from both undergraduate and postgraduate students, to demonstrate possible projects to the reader. Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of tables List of figures Preface Acknowledgments List of contributors Part I Theory and practice 1 What is design research in education? 2 History of design research in education Intermezzo 1: a fictive dialogue between two research approaches 3 Design principles, conjecture mapping, and hypothetical learning trajectories Intermezzo 2: design principles or learning trajectories? 4 Research questions in design research 5 Research quality in design research 6 Argumentative grammars used in design research 7 Writing an empirical design research paper 8 Supervising design research in education Part II Examples 9 Teaching design research as a case of cultivating a community of professional practice 10 “Harvesting” ecosystem dynamics through a computational model of a garden 11 Giant Steps for Algebra 12 Explicit oral and written reasoning during science argumentation 13 An embodied approach to derivatives 14 Building bridges: uniting students, researchers, and teachers to improve a course 15 Easy equilibrium: discovery in an introductory chemistry course 16 Rearview mirrors for the “expert blind spot”: using design to access surgeons’ tacit knowledge and create shared referents for teaching 17 Children’s reasoning about animal lifecycles: tradeoffs across four different designs 18 Linking design and theory: using conjecture maps to focus the design research process in art education 19 Literary education with narrative digital games: from formulating research questions to capturing the design rationale 20 From implementer to co-designer: a teacher’s changing role in a design research project 21 Using hypothetical learning trajectories in design research 22 Reflection and wish list Appendix: Further resources Index