{"product_id":"9789400734098","title":"Methodological Choice and Design Scholarship, Policy and Practice in Social and Educational Research","description":"\u003ch3\u003eMethodos Series\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eMethodological Choice and Design\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eScholarship, Policy and Practice in Social and Educational Research\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eLina Markauskaite | Peter Freebody | Jude Irwin\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Science \/ Sociology \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBeginning and well-seasoned researchers alike face significant challenges in understanding the complexities of research designs arising from both within and across methodological paradigms, and in applying them in ways that maximise impact on knowledge, practice, and policy. This volume engages educational and social researchers in a scholarly debate offering some crucial re-interpretations of established research methodologies in light of contemporary conditions and critical introduction to some contemporary research approaches yet to gain general recognition. \r\nThis book is a contemporary vademecum for researchers, practitioners and graduate students on research methodologies and designs for educational and social change in today’s world. \r\nThe chapters chart and analyse the conceptual and practical complexities of a variety research designs for contemporary educational and social work research. \r\nThis anthology, taken overall, provides readers with the knowledge and understanding needed not only to design technically sound and coherent research studies, but also to develop methodologically innovative research projects that cross the boundaries between different methodological traditions to the benefit of scholarship, policy, and practice.\r\n\r\nThe chapters cover nine research approaches:\r\n-\tDesign-based research\r\n-\tAction research\r\n-\tEthnomethodological research\r\n-\tNegotiated ethnography\r\n-\tArts-informed research\r\n-\tHistorical analysis and postcolonial scholarship \r\n-\tPolicy analysis\r\n-\tComparative research\r\n-\tQuantitative modelling of correlational and multi-level data \r\n\r\nThe book provides a critical discussion of epistemological questions and methodological frontiers:  \r\n-\tKnowledge and epistemology in scholarship, practice and policy\r\n-\tDigital knowledge and digital research\r\n-\tEmerging methodological challenges for educational research\r\n-\tChallenges and futures for social work and social policy research methods\r\n-\tMethodology and the knowledge industry\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e02 January 2013\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Netherlands\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9789400734098\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e311\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Netherlands","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50803513688204,"sku":"9789400734098","price":152.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9789400734098.jpg?v=1781754530","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9789400734098","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}