This book evaluates the increasingly wide variety of intellectual resources for research methods and methodologies and investigates what constitutes good educational research.

• Written by a distinguished international group of philosophers of education
  
• Questions what sorts of research can usefully inform policy and practice, and what inferences can be drawn from different kinds of research
  
• Demonstrates the critical engagement of philosophers of education with the wider educational research community and illustrates the benefits that can accrue from such engagement