Small-Scale Research: Pragmatic Inquiry in Social Science and the Caring ProfessionsSAGE, 29/03/2002 - 223 páginas `The author takes the student through the whole of the research process including anticipating common mistakes and `times of trouble' and offering advice on how to make things easier on yourself. The methods work is sound and the methodology is put across very well and nicely integrated with the `thinking out' of the research ... Rigorous, accessible, upbeat - I would expect this to become a widely used resource for students and lone researchers at all levels' - Roger Sapsford, School of Social Sciences, University of Teeside Timely, assured and written with the needs of students uppermost, Small-Scale Research is a direct, comprehensive guide for student doing theses, dissertations, papers and projects. It systematically works through the central methods of inquiry and demonstrates the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches. The advice on when and how to use small-scale methods is pragmatic, recognizing that small-scale researchers are usually short on time and resources. Yet behind this pragmatism is the principle that research is, above all, about thinking. Whatever needs to be done in a research project has to be for the purpose of providing research audiences with the best possible answers, in the circumstances, to the research questions. The book argues that it is not enough to apply research methods. Sense-making and claims-making are central to good research practice. |
Índice
Box 1 | 6 |
Research as Claimsmaking | 17 |
1 Convergence and divergence in human experience | 26 |
2 Typical stages in action research inquiries | 39 |
1 | 40 |
3 Research methods and generalizations | 47 |
Facetoface Inquiry Methods | 63 |
8 | 69 |
Complexity | 144 |
1 A degree programme represented | 153 |
Doing It | 161 |
ix | 162 |
2 Collecting data | 168 |
Sensemaking | 173 |
1 Statistical techniques and four qualities of data | 175 |
creating and applying | 185 |
Research at a Distance | 89 |
feminist | 105 |
Bringing It All Together | 114 |
1 Elements in a multistage research design | 123 |
using interviews to validate | 129 |
5 An internal validity prompt sheet | 135 |
8 | 139 |
Writing Disseminating and Influencing | 193 |
a connected outline | 195 |
1 Research purposes and influences on practice | 204 |
2 Ways of improving the chances that your work | 207 |
Reflecting | 210 |
220 | |
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Small-Scale Research: Pragmatic Inquiry in Social Science and the Caring ... Peter T Knight Pré-visualização limitada - 2001 |
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Designing Qualitative Research Catherine Marshall,Gretchen B. Rossman Pré-visualização limitada - 2006 |