Interviews are ubiquitous in modern society, and they play a crucial role in social scientific research. But, as Charles Briggs convincingly argues in this book, received interviewing techniques rest on fundamental misapprehensions about the nature both of the interview as a com…
"Conducting Educational Research helped students understand and apply the most important principles of scholarly investigation. Now in its 6th edition, this research textbook includes updates such as a completely rewritten Chapter 12, a chapter devoted to statistical research wi…
A series of cases which present real-world problems in conducting different research techniques such as statistical sampling or questionnaires, for the purposes of teaching how to recognize and interpret possible problems in research methodology.
This book explores major shifts and reorientations in the recent history of American Anthropology. It engages three fundamental intellectual-political challenges that American anthropology is destined to confront: becoming more self-reflexive, achieving theoretical and methodolo…
by Meilgaard, Morten, Civille, Gail Vance, Carr, B. Thomas
by Meilgaard, Morten, Civille, Gail Vance, Carr, B. Thomas
The book has two objectives, #1 as a "how to" text for professionals, it aims for a clear and concise presentation of practical solutions, accepted methods, and standard practices, #2 as a textbook for courses at the academic level, it aims to provide just enough theoretical bac…
Reflexive Ethnography is a unique guide to ethnographic research for students of anthropology and related disciplines. It provides practical and comprehensive guidance to ethnographic research methods, but also encourages students to develop a critical understanding of the philo…
This book begins by introducing the topic of knowledge in literature, including its scientific foundations. Due to the ever-increasing number of scientific publications, literature reviews are becoming more and more essential to stay updated. Literature Reviews describes an inno…
This book presents research contributions focussing on the introduction of contemporary physics topics - mainly, but not exclusively, quantum physics - into high school currciula. Despite the important advances and discoveries in quantum physics and relativity which have revolut…
In this book, John W. Creswell explores the philosophical underpinnings, history, and key elements of each of five qualitative inquiry traditions: narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case study. In his signature accessible writing style, the auth…
Is educational research chasing the trends one can observe in big sciences, mimicking what happens, some would say successfully, elsewhere in academia? The question in the title of this edited collection took its inspiration from a verse by Goethe: Wer Großes will, muss sich zus…
"Qualitative research seeks to discover and portray participants' perspectives, uncovering new insights into our lives and social contexts. Within that paradigm, there are numerous qualitative research designs, each guiding researchers toward this underlying goal in a slightly d…
