Conducting Educational Design Research

Chapter  8

Writing proposals foreducational design research

Phillips (2006) noted that assessing research proposals in education, and especially design research proposals, is difficult for a host of reasons. This is especially because design research does not constitute what philosophers call a “natural kind.” That is, while there are some common characteristics (as described in Chapter 3), there is no one thing that design studies are like. Indeed, we have endeavored to illustrate the healthy variety in educational design research throughout this book. It therefore follows that there is no one way to write a design research proposal. The task of writing a research proposal is a challenging one and, for many, this seems especially daunting ...