The NCRM quick start guide to: Three approaches used in research methods teaching

NCRM trainers, like all teachers of research methods, grapple with the challenge of supporting learners to develop the methodological competences needed to conduct robust research. The NCRM Pedagogy of Methodological learning project1 has identified a host of teaching approaches being used across the social sciences for methods and methodology. In this guide we outline three broad, respected and inter-related approaches: active learning, experiential learning and student-centred learning. Our aim is to make methods teaching practices more transparent and knowable, and to stimulate debate about how we think about methods teaching and training.