Those Whom the Research Concerns: Conducting Intervention Research as Inter- and Transdisciplinary Inquiry
摘要
The aim of this chapter is to describe the protagonist of this book, the intervention project called the Enhancing Children’s Attention project and some of the context around it. It sheds light on why we decided to conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a widespread group-learning pedagogical approach using extensive testing, including brainwave recordings, in Swedish preschools, that is, to carry out evidence-based research in an academic and preschool context that is probably more test-averse than most others. The chapter further provides basic information about the project, which is central to understanding the discussions in other chapters, for example, information about how the randomized controlled trial was planned and conducted, how the interventions and testing for the project were carried out, and how ethical requirements were met.