Title:	Methodological Choice and Design
Authors:	Lina Markauskaite Peter Freebody Jude Irwin
Keywords:	Methodological Choice
Issue Date:	2011
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	This book is designed to be a contemporary vade mecum for researchers, practitioners and graduate students on research methodologies and designs for education and social change in today’s world. In particular, the book would have its audience appreciate the significance of how choices in methodology, method and analysis are deeply related to the particular kind of policy and activity fields that the research aims to influence. These choices must not only be considered in the light of available research traditions (which often operate independently of one another, or make decisive, sometimes exclusive, claims to validity, reliability, or credibility); rather, they must also take into account the contributions that different choices might make to their target policy and activity fields: how certain kinds of research construct their phenomena of interest in ways that present particular opportunities and limitations to practitioners and policy-makers. As Feuer, Towne, and Shavelson (2002) have argued, round methodologies in research that inform education, social work and social policy. Ten contributions in Part Two describe, advocate and critique five relatively new research approaches that have an explicit commitment to educational and social innovation, change and practical action: design-based research, action research, ethnomethodology, negotiated ethnography and arts-informed research. In contrast, eight contributions in Part Three present four relatively established research approaches: historical analysis, policy research, comparative analysis and quantitative research. The chapters show how these methodologies have been reconsidered, advanced and adapted to new practical and political contexts and challenges over the last decades.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/50918
ISBN:	978-90-481-8933-5
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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