Design-Based Research
Published 2011 · P. Reimann
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Abstract
Design-based research, with the design experiment as its main practical method, can be characterised as an inter-disciplinary ‘mixed-method’ research approach conducted ‘in the field’ that serves applied as well as theory-building purposes. Substantial progress has been made over recent years in articulating the methodological and epistemological basis for design-based research and in developing it into a teachable method. This chapter delineates these lines of development and provides a short overview of how a prototypical design study is conducted. It identifies and problematises the notions of design and design methods arguing that they need further conceptual development and integration with the methodological foundation.