Content introduction chapter I methods of educational research

CHAPTER I
METHODS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Methodology is a system of practices and procedures that a teacher uses to teach. It will be based on beliefs about the nature of language, and how it is learnt.
Educational research has a great field. Educational psychology, educational philosophy, methodology, class organization and management, child development and other subjects are the fields of research in education. For examples educational correlational research include: Research to discover the relationship between students' behaviors and classroom performance. A study into the relationship between students' social skills and their learning behaviors.
STEM- in full, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, field and curriculum centred on education in the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The STEM acronym was introduced in 2001 by scientific administrators at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). It is an interdisciplinary approach that helps students succeed in college and in their future careers. There are different types of teaching methods that can be categorized into four broad types:
Teacher-centered methods,
Learner-centered methods,
Content-focused methods,
Interactive/participative methods.
1.1. Teacher-centered method
In teacher-centered education, students put all of their focus on the teacher. You talk, and the students exclusively listen. During activities, students work alone, and collaboration is discouraged. With the teacher-centered approach, teachers will have a higher chance to control the focus of the students that they are teaching, the discussion happening in the classroom, the timing, and pace of each meeting, and the material being covered because all of those factors will be reliant on the teacher.


CHAPTER II
TRENDS IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Trends are new, up-and-coming, and popular educational practices. The definition of a trend is a general direction or something popular. An example of trend is a northern moving coastline. An example of trend is the style of bell bottom jeans. A general tendency or course of events. If a trend is a historical change up until the present, then an emerging issue is a possible new technology, a potential public policy issue, or a new concept or idea that, while perhaps fringe thinking today, could mature and develop into a critical mainstream issue in the future or become a major trend in its own.
Education is a crucible for new trends and bold ideas. From the thriving educational research centres producing high-level academic work all the way through to the techniques classroom teachers will employ in their day-to-day work, this profession breeds audacious thinking.
Yet for those who finished their teacher training years ago, it is easy to fall behind on all the latest pedagogical theories bubbling up from all that research. To bring you up to speed on new thinking on education, we’ve outlined a few of the latest trends in educational research to arise in the last few years. Let’s see if they gel with your own approach to teaching.