Research methods: general

The contributors to this volume take up the theme of instructed and instructive actions.

Talking White Trash documents the complex and interwoven relationship between mediated representations and lived experiences of white working-class people-a task inspired by the author's experiences growing up in a white working-class family and neighborhood and how she came to understand herself through watching films and television shows.

The field of education is rife with calls to action and for research to improve higher-level thinking and learning outcomes in primary, secondary, and tertiary education.

Culturally Responsive Methodologies puts forward a new position from which to navigate our research in the hope that we can contribute to a more respectful and humble way of working with all peoples.

This collection of research articles illustrates a wide variety of qualitative methods for gathering and interpreting data.

Inerviews, focus groups and questionnaires are everyday tools of the academic resedracher in Business and Management Studies.

Building on the pioneering radical approach of Research Justice: Methodologies for Social Change-a seminal text born out of the innovative work of the DataCenter: Research for Justice-this updated edition explores the nexus of research, power, and legitimacy, advocating for equitable knowledge construction.

Drawing upon extensive field research in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, this book focuses on networks of business and personal relationships as a key means of transnational operations.

Full of ideas, activities and exercises, this book provides imaginative ways to inspire young people to put down the computer games, disconnect from social media, and spend more time away from a screen.

En una cultura controlada por los medios de comunicación, ¿Cómo presentar la Biblia a aquellos que están acostumbrados a las películas, las revistas y a los periódicos?

This accessible, alphabetical guide provides concise insights into a variety of digital research methods, incorporating introductory knowledge with practical application and further research implications.

This book offers a student-focused guide to conducting undergraduate research in education and education-related programs, engaging students in the process of learning through research, and supporting them to navigate their multidimensional academic programs.

This volume reports on the encounters between hikers and wildlife on the Appalachian Trail.

The focus of this book is to demystify the requirements delineated within ISO/IEC 17025:2017, while providing a road map for organizations wishing to receive accreditation for their laboratories.

The Edge of Sex is an anthology of voices from the margins, bringing together 37 writers to discuss their experiences of sex and sex education in America.

The focus of this book is to demystify the requirements delineated within ISO/IEC 17025:2017, while providing a road map for organizations wishing to receive accreditation for their laboratories.

Modes of Thinking for Qualitative Data Analysis argues for engagement with the conceptual underpinnings of five prominent analytical strategies used by qualitative researchers: Categorical Thinking, Narrative Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, Poetical Thinking, and Diagrammatical Thinking.

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

Interdisciplinary research centers are blooming in almost every university, and interdisciplinary research is expected to be a cure-all for the ills of academic science.

Providing a practical overview for graduates and professional researchers, this book highlights the central issues involved in the design of medium to large scale social and economic research.

Part ethnography, part memoir, and part critical reflection on the Anthropocene, this book examines the ways that islands form and inform human experiences of the everyday and the extraordinary.

Rereading Ishi's Story offers a manifesto of sorts through a critical reading of an anthropological classic, Theodora Kroeber's 1961 book, Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America.

Learning how to formulate questions that examine the power relations between the researcher and participants is at the heart of critical approaches.

Over the past decade there has been a remarkable flowering of interest in food and nutrition, both within the popular media and in academia.

If you had just one wish for the study of human development, what would it be?

Through a combination of theory, practice, and a range of interdisciplinary case studies, this book expands how we define and think about the critical role and relationship between design and emergencies.

Believe it or not, the 1990s are history.

Featuring contributions from some of the leading researchers in the field of SEM, most chapters are written by the author(s) who originally proposed the technique and/or contributed substantially to its development.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Dance Studies brings together leading international dance scholars in this single collection to provide a vivid picture of the state of contemporary dance research.

Later Life views older age as a valuable stage of life and argues for the centrality of self-making to the quality of later life.

Building on the pioneering radical approach of Research Justice: Methodologies for Social Change-a seminal text born out of the innovative work of the DataCenter: Research for Justice-this updated edition explores the nexus of research, power, and legitimacy, advocating for equitable knowledge construction.

Jungian Arts-Based Research and "e;The Nuclear Enchantment of New Mexico"e; provides clear, accessible and in-depth guidance both for arts-based researchers using Jung's ideas and for Jungian scholars undertaking arts-based research.

Are you working with qualitative data but unsure how to approach your analysis?

Getting Boys Up and Running in the Early Years addresses the fact that boys do less well than girls in all areas of learning in the Early Years and continue to lag behind girls in assessments throughout their school careers.

Provides synthetic chemists with a method for rapid retrieval of information from the literature, listing material by reaction type rather than by author name or publication date.

Through a series of case studies, this book provides an understanding of the practice of ethnographic fieldwork in a variety of contexts, from everyday settings to formal institutions.

The Routledge Handbook of Field Research presents a comprehensive, go-to resource for staff and students in preparing for and thinking about the doing of field research, including both individual fieldwork and group field classes.

Selfless is a memoir, reflecting on identity, social class, mobility, education, and on psychology itself; how psychology as a discipline is conducted, how it prioritises objects of study, how it uncovers psychological truths about the world.

Demonstrates how nonresponse in sample surveys and censuses can be handled by replacing each missing value with two or more multiple imputations.

Reading Autoethnography situates autoethnographic insights within the context of two fundamental concerns of critical qualitative inquiry: justice and love.

Since the beginning of the century, there have been calls for the integration of traditional individualistic (micro) and management (macro) paradigms in Human Resource Management studies.

The new edition of this innovative book, R Data Analysis without Programming, prepares the readers to quickly analyze data and interpret statistical results using R.

*We've added a comprehensive basic math review to this edition.

Arguing, Reasoning, and Thinking Well offers an engaging and accessible introduction to argumentation and critical thinking.

Unlike other books which focus solely on the business or profit aspects of measuring the customer experience, this book focuses on the benefits to the consumer as well as the company or financial institution.

Since its first publication, Action Research: Principles and Practice has become a key text in its field.

Todays scientists are showing us how stem cells create and repair the human body.

It is well known that body image has been associated to health risks related to eating habits.