Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: An Introduction to Educational Research in Practice -- 1 Why you should read this book -- Part II: Different Approaches to Educational Research -- 2 A Popperian approach to research on learning and method -- 3 The postmodern prism: fracturing certainty in educational research -- 4 A Popperian approach to policy research -- 5 Critical approaches to research in practice -- 6 Science in educational research -- 7 Research in a bicultural context: the case of Aotearoa/New Zealand -- 8 Case study research -- Part III: Dialogues from a Research Community -- 9 Decision-making in the real world: postmodernism versus fallibilist realism -- 10 Research and social improvement: critical theory and the politics of change -- 11 Culture, race and discourse -- 12 How general are generalizations? -- Part IV: Educational Research in Practice -- 13 Doing good research -- Glossary: a Popperian view of some important research terms and their usage -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.