SAGE Journal Articles
SAGE Journal Articles combine cutting-edge academic journal scholarship with the topics in your course for a robust classroom experience.
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Article 1: Sampson, H. (2004). Navigating the waves: the usefulness of a pilot in qualitative research. Qualitative Research, 4(3), 383-402.
Summary: This article explores methodological shifts in longitudinal qualitative research and illustrates how researchers can maintain methodological continuity while staying open to necessary modifications. The authors argue that careful analysis and accounting of methodological continuity, modification, and changes can strengthen the trustworthiness of longitudinal studies, an important goal considering the methodological complexity often associated with longitudinal qualitative research.
Questions to Consider:
1. Explain why certain qualitative methods are criticized.
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of filtration?
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Article 2: Cole, M. (2010). What’s culture got to do with it? Educational research as a necessarily interdisciplinary enterprise. Educational Researcher, 39(6), 461-470.
Summary: In this article, the author examines the role of culture in education in historical perspective to suggest the conditions required to promote generalized educational reform. The author examines several strategies for seeking change in the cultural foundations of schooling. He offers suggestions for why such strategies appear to have limited impact, and he discusses changes in global conditions that might lead to generalized educational reform.
Questions to Consider:
1. How can culture fit into contemporary reform efforts?
2. Out of the strategies presented by the author, which do you believe is the best for seeking change?
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Article 3: Lewis, C., Perry, R., & Murata, A. (2006). How should research contribute to instructional improvement? The case of lesson study. Educational Researcher, 35(3), 3-14.
Summary:. Drawing on examples of Japanese and U.S. lesson study, the authors propose that three types of research are needed if lesson study is to avoid the fate of so many other once-promising reforms that were discarded before being fully understood or well implemented. The proposed research includes development of a descriptive knowledge base; explication of the innovation’s mechanism; and iterative cycles of improvement research.
Questions to Consider:
1. What is lesson study and how did it transition from Japan to the U.S.?
2. Identify the six changes in the structure and norms of educational research that would enhance its ability to study lesson study.