Combining methods in educational and social research
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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England :
Open University Press ,
c2004
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Conducting educational research
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Table of Contents:
- 1. A third methodological movement: challenging the dominance of single methods
- 2. Simple numeric and textual data: querying the divide
- 3. Triangulation and combining methods across studies
- 4. The 'new' political arithmetic: a policy case study
- 5. Understanding life histories by varying the scale
- 6. The interplay of scale and type: complex interventions
- 7. The promise of design studies
- 8. What is the current prevalence of combined methods research?
- 9. Theory as a barrier to the combination of research methods
- 10. Prospects for the 'new' education and social science researcher