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

313 Pages·2018·5.925 MB·English

by  Arthur Bakker

Design Research in Education
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.
With easy to follow chapters and accessible question and response sections,
Design Research in Education contains practical advice on a wide range of topics
related to design research projects including:
• The theory of design research, what it entails, and when it is suitable
• The formulation of research questions
• How to structure a research project
• The quality of research and the methodological issues of validity and
reliability
• How to write up your research
• The supervision of design research.
Through its theoretical grounding and practical advice, Design Research in
Education is the ideal introduction into the field of design based research and is
essential reading for bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD students new to the field, as
well as to supervisors overseeing projects that use design research.
Arthur Bakker is a Fellow at the University of Bremen, Germany, and an
Associate Professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Design Research in Education
A Practical Guide for Early
Career Researchers
Arthur Bakker
First published 2018
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I dedicate this book to my wife Jantien Smit, with
whom I can share so many facets of life.

Contents
List of tables x
List of figures xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xviii
List of contributors xx
PART I
Theory and practice 1
1 What is design research in education? 3
2 History of design research in education 23
Intermezzo 1: a fictive dialogue between two research
approaches 39
3 Design principles, conjecture mapping, and
hypothetical learning trajectories 46
Intermezzo 2: design principles or learning trajectories? 68
4 Research questions in design research 73
5 Research quality in design research 87
6 Argumentative grammars used in design research 96
7 Writing an empirical design research paper 113
8 Supervising design research in education 130
viii Contents
PART II
Examples 151
9 Teaching design research as a case of cultivating a
community of professional practice 153
DOR ABRAHAMSON
10 “Harvesting” ecosystem dynamics through a
computational model of a garden 172
REBECCA SHAREFF
11 Giant Steps for Algebra 176
KIERA CHASE
12 Explicit oral and written reasoning during science
argumentation 179
M. LISETTE LOPEZ
13 An embodied approach to derivatives 182
LEAH ROSENBAUM
14 Building bridges: uniting students, researchers, and
teachers to improve a course 186
ANNA WELTMAN
15 Easy equilibrium: discovery in an introductory
chemistry course 189
NADIR BILICI
16 Rearview mirrors for the “expert blind spot”: using
design to access surgeons’ tacit knowledge and create
shared referents for teaching 193
EMILY HUANG
17 Children’s reasoning about animal lifecycles: tradeoffs
across four different designs 207
KATHRYN LANOUETTE
18 Linking design and theory: using conjecture maps to
focus the design research process in art education 224
NATHALIE WERNER AND ARTHUR BAKKER
Contents ix
19 Literary education with narrative digital games: from
formulating research questions to capturing the
design rationale 231
KATHARINA DÜERKOP AND ARTHUR BAKKER
20 From implementer to co-designer: a teacher’s
changing role in a design research project 246
UTE KONRAD AND ARTHUR BAKKER
21 Using hypothetical learning trajectories in design research 255
ARTHUR BAKKER AND JANTIEN SMIT
22 Reflection and wish list 272
ARTHUR BAKKER
Appendix: Further resources 286
Index 288