Educational Researcher: Mining for Problems & Solutions

In learning the ABC’s of education, you may have come across the term, educational research. A forming frame of the education’s pillars, educational research has been an all-encompassing field dedicated to discover the holy grail of aspects of education. In task of administering this research is the Educational Researcher.

What are the roles of this specific researcher? The researcher’s functions can be metaphorically compared to that of a miner. While a miner endeavors to extract valuable minerals, an Educational Researcher, on the other hand, tries to dig for problems and solutions.
 
For researchers opting to discover problems having significant impacts in an education aspect, they are described to take the academic or basic approach. Moreover, researchers adopting this kind of approach are conducting the research in accord to gaining Master’s or Doctorate degrees.

On the solutions-mining side, researchers are known to prescribe under the applied approach. The rationale of such solutions-mining is the inherent requisite of the approach to facilitate a simulation or temporal application of the proposed solution to validate the solution’s positive, negative, or neutral impacts.

However, regardless of the appropriated approach, an Educational Researcher has to observe a specialist stature in the education field. This is made possible not simply by uncovering the fundamentals of education; it also helps that the researcher has an in-depth understanding of the systems working behind the education picture.

Without such appreciation of the existing systems, a researcher is invariably bound to get lost and entangled with the web of workings that abundantly manifests itself in certain aspects of education.

Indeed, whoever chooses to undertake such research in education is seriously in for a challenge – numerous challenges. Moreover, such mission entails not just systematic, but systemic integration under the researcher’s tools as this permit a harmonious channel towards all other fields concern.