Research methods: general

This groundbreaking book introduces an innovative new perspective on mixed method grounded theory methodology (MM-GTM) by conceptualizing it holistically as a distinct, qualitatively driven methodology that appreciates the integrity of each of the methods it embraces.

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Sharing the experience of bringing up a child with nonverbal learning disability (NLD), this warm and accessible book offers advice on subjects ranging across diagnosis and therapy, children's interaction with each other, suitable activities for a child with NLD and how to discuss NLD with children.

This book explores the thought of Olive Schreiner, the internationally famous writer, feminist theorist, social critic, opponent of imperialism and nationalism, and analyst of violence and war, best known for her novels and short stories, articles and critical commentaries, and her feminist treatise, Women and Labour.

What survival skills do academics need to become digitally agile and to establish an effective digital academic presence?

Neuroscience is, by definition, a multidisciplinary field: some scientists study genes and proteins at the molecular level while others study neural circuitry using electrophysiology and high-resolution optics.

This book provides a review of current research in fake news and presents six new empirical research studies examining its impact.

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There's a well-known saying: what doesn't get measured doesn't get done.

Humans are social animals and are constantly interacting with each other through conversation, written communication, symbols and other expressions .

This best-selling guide to undertaking your Early Years research project takes you on a practical step-by-step journey.

Thoroughly updated throughout, this classic, practical text on how to write and publish a scientific paper takes its own advice to be "e;as clear and simple as possible.

This unique collection examines "e;the acting person"e; as an important unit of analysis for science studies, using an integrative approach of in-depth case studies to explore the cognitive, social, cultural, and personal dimensions of a series of key figures in the sciences, from Goethe to Kepler to Rachel Carson.

Governing Affects explores the neoliberal transformation of state governance in Europe towards affective forms of dominance exercised by customer-oriented neo-bureaucracies and public service providers.

This book informs instructors and librarians about the history, aims, and pedagogical uses of the annotated bibliography.

This updated and exciting fourth edition of Managing People: A Practical Guide for Front-Line Managers addresses the growing needs of front-line managers who are not themselves specialists in personnel management but whose roles require them to have these skills.

Based on ethnographic research, this book examines the paranormal investigation subculture in the US.

Mass Shootings and Civilian Armament provides the first comprehensive multi-methodological analysis of the relationship between mass shootings and firearm purchases (as proxied by background checks) in the US on national level data from 1999-2020.

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Now issued as a Routledge Education Classic Edition, Bud Goodall's Writing Qualitative Inquiry responds to the rapid growth of personal narrative as a method of inquiry among qualitative scholars by offering a concise volume of practical advice for scholars and students seeking to work in this tradition.

This book applies digital methods of analysis to the study of the impact of digital technologies on the social and political spheres of women in Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

Brings together chapters from more than a dozen leading methods scholars to revolutionize qualitative research design.

This book provides a clear, concise and readable introduction to complexity thinking, its application to the social sciences and public policy, and the relevance of some of its various tools to those fields of politics, health, the international realm, development, planning and terrorism.

In the provocative opening essay Kenway and Fahey explore ways in which the notion of the imagination itself might be mobilized by researchers.

This book presents methodological approaches that can help explore the ways in which people develop emotional attachments to historic urban places.

Research in the College Context, 2nd Edition provides faculty, students, practitioners, and researchers in the college environment with a manual of diverse approaches and methods for researching higher education and college students.

This book offers a critical analysis of consumer credit markets and the growth of outstanding debt, presenting in-depth interview material to explore the phenomenon of mass indebtedness through the life trajectories of self-identified debtors struggling with the pressures of owing money.

Impossible Refuge brings the perspectives of refugees into rapidly emerging dialogues about contemporary situations of mass forced migration, asking: what does it mean to be displaced?

Foundations of Educational Research will give you a solid grounding in education as a discipline, introducing the key concepts, theorists, and terms which underpin educational research from Dewey and Piaget, to ethics, ontology and bias.

Framing research as the process of asking and answering questions, this book demonstrates how to identify good research questions and how to structure and explore them successfully.

This book recounts a personal journey of self-acceptance, focusing on the author's creation and reliance of a persona (Paul D.

Showcasing fuzzy set theory, this book highlights the enormous potential of fuzzy logic in helping to analyse the complexity of a wide range of socio-economic patterns and behaviour.

Semantic Network Analysis in Social Sciences introduces the fundamentals of semantic network analysis and its applications in the social sciences.

What sets this collection apart in the literature is its direct, personal style.

From reciting the Kiddush (sanctification prayer) to building the chuppah (wedding canopy), the details of a Jewish wedding can be overwhelming!

Aimed at assisting doctoral candidates and early-career researchers and their supervisors globally, this book is the first of its type to address the challenges faced by students when proposing new programs of research in the disciplines of gender, race, identity, indigeneity, and diversity within management and business.

Written for early-career scholars still in the planning stages of their research, this book explores some of the challenges researchers face when conducting fieldwork in the former Soviet region.

This book explores the diversity-related labour that marginalized faculty, students, and staff are expected to perform because of their social identities - i.

Writing Strategies for the Education Dissertation offers a unique take on doctoral writing.

With its unique combination of humour and step-by-step instruction, this award-winning book is the statistics lifesaver for everyone.

For much of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, public officials in cities like New York, Chicago, and Baltimore have criminalized uprisings as portending Black thugs throwing rocks at police and plundering private property to undermine complaints of police violence.

This book addresses the functioning of financial markets, in particular the financial market model, and modelling.

Contributors to this collection address the ways in which interdisciplinarity is defined, positioned, and handled by researchers, universities, and critics, and examine such topics as "e;myths"e; of interdisciplinarity, postmodern critiques of interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and research grant allocation, women's studies, Canadian studies, environmental studies, and "e;emerging"e; disciplines.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

Tourism research that is inspired by theories of practice is currently gaining in prominence.

Skills for finding information are essential for academic study and beyond.

The hundreds of biblical references in Shakespeare's plays give ample evidence that he was well acquainted with Scripture.