This course provides you with an introduction to the major traditions and orientations informing contemporary educational research. It focuses on a range of approaches, methods and techniques used for knowledge production through research and inquiry in education. In this course you develop skills as critical readers (consumers) of research as well as making informed choices about appropriate research methodologies and techniques for your research and inquiry projects as a teacher. In this course you will develop your skills as a reflective practitioner who is able to apply the appropriate techniques relevant to your professional work in education as a teacher.