Research methods: general

An Introduction to Metascience delves into core metascientific concepts, offering a critical examination of current knowledge creation processes and scrutinising researchers and their methodologies across disciplines.

Just 10 years ago, ophthalmic research was almost unheard of in Singapore.

This unique volume presents the latest scientific achievements of library researchers and professionals on the Qualitative and Quantitative Methods of Libraries.

Globalisation has become a rewarding but challenging fact of life for scientific and scholarly researchers.

In this collection of essays, biographies and Nobel lectures, ten Nobel Laureates from five continents give various and startling perspectives on current questions about modernity and tradition, unity and diversity, integration, identity, integrity, gender and sexual roles in a multicultural world of change.

The essential step-by-step guide for artists and designers undertaking research, now with new sections on visual research and data analysis.

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

This book explores the issue of abortion and women's rights in contemporary China.

This pivot considers the emergence and functioning of the migration industry and commercialization of migration pathways in Asia.

This book reveals the structures of poverty, power, patriarchy and imperialistic health policies that underpin what the World Health Organization calls the "e;hidden disease"e; of vaginal fistulas in Africa.

'The book is very simplistically written and, I consider that undergraduate students would find maximum chapters easy to comprehend and apply.

This book explores professional women's experiences of gender in the Taiwanese workplace in the wake of the rapid transformation of the country's economy, identifying attitudes to gender in a heterosexist and heteronormative social culture.

This Element describes Living with Machines, the largest digital humanities project ever funded in the UK.

This book provides tractable computational analyses of the crucial but complex processes of government formation and survival.

This book provides tractable computational analyses of the crucial but complex processes of government formation and survival.

En nuestros días ya no se puede continuar pensando que el investigar es una actividad exclusiva de los "científicos".

Coherente con la trascendencia de la investigación cualitativa en el ámbito académico, este libro presenta 7 métodos muy importantes que son aplicados de forma rigurosa en las diferentes disciplinas científicas, particularmente en la redacción de las tesis doctorales de antropología, ciencias sociales y administración.

Este libro pluridisciplinario coliga la teoría con la metodología de investigación.

Esta obra recopila las experiencias pedagógicas, a partir de su trabajo de investigación, de un grupo de profesores de las Facultades de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad del Rosario.

Life began for Paula Rothenberg in a privileged home in New York City, but it took her to the battlefields of the culture wars on behalf of the underprivileged.

Enfoques para el análisis político se presenta como un estudio comparado de veinte perspectivas actualmente en uso por parte de la ciencia política, para acercarse a escudriñar los fenómenos políticos.

El texto va llevando al lector por los diferentes territorios implicados en la acción de investigar, abarcando terrenos conceptuales, epistemológicos, metodológicos y éticos cuya comprensión va acompañándose de acciones propias del proceso de construcción de un proyecto que se ajuste a los requerimientos de la comunidad científica y a las demandas del entorno.

Este libro da a conocer el modelo de triangulo logico, el cual esta conformado por una ecuacion geometrica, que permite reconocer, mapear y demostrar los ensambles logicos que poseen los elementos y niveles de la investigacion.

Fireflies is a book about how writing poetry can help us explore memory and identity, and it is also a book of poetry that explores memory and identity.

In From Martyrs to Murderers, the author explores the connections between the dark, unflattering representations of public schools, teachers and teaching in popular Hollywood films and the conservative attacks on public education that have culminated in a generation of neo-liberal standards reform measures.

This book argues for the essential use of drawing as a tool for science teaching and learning.

Spinning Popular Culture is a book about the effervescent activity lying (perhaps dormant) beneath the surface of seemingly inert and mundane cultural items in everyday life.

This book explores the generative power of vulnerabilities facing individuals who inhabit educational spaces.

Embodied Inquiry is offered to all who want to deepen the connection to their bodies.

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The Creative Enterprise of Mathematics Teaching Research presents the results and methodology of work of the teaching-research community of practice of the Bronx (TR Team of the Bronx).

What is Next in Educational Research?

Both an introduction to sensory ethnography and a bold display of the sophisticated use of the sensory for contemporary ethnography, Global South Ethnographies: Minding the Senses reflects both indigenous and non-mainstream takes on the sensory and the sensual in ethnographic practice.

Through multiple lenses of curriculum studies, the author explores how poetry is situated in the pedagogical world.

The impetus for this book was a public lecture Laurel Richardson gave in Melbourne in 2006.

The monitoring of quality has been part of the educational landscape for many decades.

In The Best Available Evidence : Decision-Making for Educational Improvement, the editors and contributing authors explore the intricacies of working with data and evidence for the purpose or organizational development in educational institutions.

Becoming earth is about how we can write and tell stories in a way that allows us to collaborate and be stewards and partners of the (natural) world-our earth-rather than dominators of it.

ACE (Active Collaborative Education) set out on its educational journey in October 2001.

This volume offers a novel collection of international works on the use of poetry in inquiry that transcends conventional disciplinary boundaries.

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This volume comes at a critical juncture, as global commitments transition from the Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals and the wider post-2015 development agenda is being discussed and debated.

Lawrence and Cranton present a unique research methodology involving fictional characters as research participants.

This book explores the complexity of communication and understanding as a possible asset in formal education rather than a problem that needs to be "e;fixed"e;.

This book outlines the principles and practices of arts-related inquiry and provides both suggestions about conducting research in the field as well as case study examples.

This beautiful volume offers a range of research possibilities for practitioners.

This book examines the experiences of four Conservatory style trained actors, who go onto complete teacher education programs.

Over the last decade, the practices by which scholarly knowledge is produced-both within and across disciplines-have been substantially influenced by the appearance of digital information resources, communication networks and technology enhanced research tools.

The Living Systems Theory of Vocational Behavior and Development (LSVD) explains and illustrates the processes by which individuals construct their work experiences, vocational pathways and career patterns through episodes of interaction with affordances they recognize within their contexts, and how counseling can facilitate those processes.

It was the belief that assessment is the driving force of curriculum that motivated the authors of this monograph to embark on a program of research and development into the use of digital technologies to support more authentic forms of assessment.