Mike Lambert

A hands-on guide which critically explores and scrutinizes research methods used in educational enquiry and a unique and valuable resource for any students interested and engaged in the planning and completion of their own investigations.

'It would be hard to imagine a more valuable helpmate than this book’ (Anthony Seldon, Education Today, 63(1) 38-39). Support materials available at: http://bit.ly/RTfpyO

The chapter explains how research creates deeper understanding and helps education professionals to work successfully with children and young people. It illustrates the variety of research activity which can be undertaken and what might be suitable for your own project. It also considers the important role of ‘ethics’, whereby you, the researcher,...

Support materials for ‘A Beginner’s Guide to Doing Your Education Research Project’ are available on Academia at: http://bit.ly/RTfpyO. You may need to register on that website to gain access to the material.

Education systems which aspire to respect and address equally and inclusively the developmental, educational and social ambitions of all learners require strengthened understanding of the notion of ‘pedagogy’. This chapter explores this concept: What does pedagogy mean? What does it entail? In particular in relation to the focus of this book: What...

There is a summary of this book chapter under ‘Full-Text’ below. You may also find it useful to look at the range of material about doing educational research and academic writing on Academia: https://independent.academia.edu/MikeLambert9. This includes a document ‘Building grounded ‘theory’’ which explores some ideas in this area of interest. You...

There is a summary of this book chapter under ‘Full-Text’ below. You may also find it useful to look at the range of material about doing educational research and academic writing on Academia: https://independent.academia.edu/MikeLambert9. This includes further documents on issues relating to the involvement of children in research. You may need to...

There is a summary of this book chapter under ‘Full-Text’ below. You may also find it useful to look at the range of material about educational research and academic writing on Academia: https://independent.academia.edu/MikeLambert9. This includes further documents on pedagogical issues. You may need to register on the Academia site to access this...

The text of this article is available at http://wlv.academia.edu/MikeLambert (scroll down). You may need to register on the website to access it. In 1997 a ‘New Labour’ government was elected in the United Kingdom, under the leadership of Tony Blair. In the decade which followed, educational policy and practice in England included active intervent...

This study examines the concept of ‘difficulty and challenge’ in curriculum, teaching and learning of young learners. It draws its data from the inschool and out-of-school experiences and perspectives of high-attaining, ‘gifted and talented’ pupils, mainly of late primary-school and early secondary-school age, and from their educators. The study is...

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The use of questionnaires to evaluate educational initiatives is widespread, but often problematic. This paper examines four aspects of an evaluation survey carried out with very able pupils attending out-of-school classes: ethics, design, bias and interpretation. There is a particular focus on the interpretation and analysis of pupils' answers to...

The text of this article is now available at http://wlv.academia.edu/MikeLambert (scroll down). You may need to register on the website to access it. 'This month an independent research team from Birmingham University is due to report to the Department for Education on its assessment of the first three years' work of the Birmingham Institute for...

There are three incentives for developing this paper: In England there is a new (or rather a renewed) focus on the educational needs of school pupils of high ability We also have new standards and requirements in teacher education (‘initial teacher training’) Teacher training in England does not have a strong evidence base on which to plan developm...

Conductive education is a distinctive style of teaching and learning for pupils with physical difficulties. It is practised in the UK in some maintained, non-maintained and independent special schools and centres (here collectively termed ‘conductive-education schools’). In this article Mike Lambert investigates the extent to which these conductive...

First published in International Journal of Learning, Volume 10, 2003 School-education in England is replete with new projects and initiatives of various kinds. Many require formal evaluation of their impact and effectiveness, often carried out by researchers from higher education. One of these initiatives has been the development in recent years o...

‘Advanced Learning Centres’ (ALCs) are special out-of-school classes for very able pupils, often (but not always) in their final year of primary schooling. The growth and development of these Centres has been coordinated by the Gifted and Talented Unit of the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) through the Excellence in Cities (EiC) initiati...