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  1. Participatory Action Research

    Theory and Methods for Engaged Inquiry

    By Jacques M. Chevalier, Daniel J. Buckles

    This book addresses a key issue in higher learning, university education and scientific research: the widespread difficulty researchers, experts and students from all disciplines face when trying to contribute to change in complex social settings characterized by uncertainty and the unknown. More...

    Published March 5th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Applied Quantitative Analysis in Education and the Social Sciences

    Edited by Yaacov Petscher, Christopher Schatschneider, Donald L. Compton

    To say that complex data analyses are ubiquitous in the education and social sciences might be an understatement. Funding agencies and peer-review journals alike require that researchers use the most appropriate models and methods for explaining phenomena. Univariate and multivariate data...

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge

  3. Action Research

    Principles and practice, 3rd Edition

    By Jean McNiff

    Since its first publication, Action Research: Principles and Practice has become a key text in its field. This new updated edition clearly describes and explains the practices of action research and its underlying values, and introduces important new ideas, including: all professionals should be...

    Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Pedagogies, Physical Culture, and Visual Methods

    Edited by Laura Azzarito, David Kirk

    Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

    To understand and more creatively capture the social world, visual methods have increasingly become used by researchers in the social sciences and education. However, despite the rapid development of visual-based knowledge, and despite the obvious links between human movement and visual forms of...

    Published February 4th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Focus Groups

    From structured interviews to collective conversations

    By George Kamberelis, Greg Dimitriadis

    Focus Groups: From Structured Interviews to Collective Conversations is a conceptual and practical introduction to focus group. As the title indicates, focus groups traditionally encompass a wide range of discursive practices. These span from formal structured interviews with particular people...

    Published February 3rd 2013 by Routledge

  6. Contextualising Narrative Inquiry

    Developing methodological approaches for local contexts

    Edited by Sheila Trahar

    Narrative inquiry is growing in popularity as a research methodology in the social sciences, medicine and the humanities. In narrative inquiry, the transparency of interactions between researcher and research participants, together with rich, contextual descriptions, help to shape and structure...

    Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Qualitative Research

    The essential guide to theory and practice

    By Maggi Savin-Baden, Claire Howell Major

    Qualitative Research: The Essential Guide to Theory and Practice provides a one-stop resource for all those approaching qualitative research for the first time, as well as those revisiting core concepts and issues. It presents a comprehensive overview of this rapidly developing field of inquiry,...

    Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge

  8. Research and Practice in Physical Education

    By Deborah Tannehill, Ann MacPhail, Ger Halbert, Frances Murphy

    Research findings in education can provide invaluable insight into how teaching practice can be improved, but research papers are often inaccessible and hard to digest. This innovative new text is designed to assist physical education students, pre-service teachers, practising teachers and teacher...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge

  9. Introductory Statistics

    A Conceptual Approach Using R

    By William B. Ware, John M. Ferron, Barbara M. Miller

    This comprehensive and uniquely organized text is aimed at undergraduate and graduate level statistics courses in education, psychology, and other social sciences. A conceptual approach, built around common issues and problems rather than statistical techniques, allows students to understand the...

    Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge

  10. The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning

    Edited by Julian Sefton-Green, Pat Thomson, Ken Jones, Liora Bresler

    Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education

    The concept of creative learning extends far beyond Arts-based learning or the development of individual creativity. It covers a range of processes and initiatives throughout the world that share common values, systems and practices aimed at making learning more creative. This applies at individual...

    Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge