Case Study Research in Practice - Rilegato

Simons, Helen

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ISBN 10: 0761964231 ISBN 13: 9780761964230

Casa editrice: Sage Pubns Ltd, 2009

Riassunto

Case Study Research in Practice explores the author's practical and uniquely personal approach to the theory and practice of case study research. Author Helen Simons draws on her extensive experience in conducting and teaching case study research to provide a comprehensive and insightful account of the process of conducting case study that tackles common misconceptions and addresses the questions often raised by students. Including examples and summary memos the author has created a dynamic text that presents readers with choices and challenges to inform the conduct of their case research.

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Recensione

'This is a particularly useful book for educational research students, for researchers looking to use case study methods for the first time, or for those about to teach a course on case study methods...For a book on research methodology, this is also a remarkably lively read. A case study is like great art, to adapt Simons' quote from MacDonald and Walker, in which 'content and intent emerge in form'. As such, Simons has written a manual for creating great art in educational research' -
Teacher Development

'Practical and immensely helpful... With its highly readable style, it is well suited to the needs of research students. Throughout it addresses the practicalities at a level that connects immediately to thorny issues in relation to the quality of the data, the quality of the analysis: in short the quality of the research' - Jane Payler, University of Winchester

'...unravelling the complexity of 'the case'...makes this kind of research very challenging. This book provides a practical and reflective approach to doing case study research and will be a valuable resource for students, supervisors and researchers' - Professor Brendan McCormack, University of Ulster

'From soundings of the depths of her experience in art, teaching, cinema, program evaluation and policy study, Helen Simons brings counsel to the making of case studies. She locates... particularization and situated generalization centrally in qualitative inquiry, an inquiry that reckons with story telling and contested meaning as much as with the functional relationships of social science'- Professor Robert E. Stake, University of Illinois'

'This book prompts readers and researchers to consider ways in which the robustness of their work can be improved. It is the clarity with which this is achieved and the encouragement it provides to readers that are the real strengths of this book' - Nurse Researcher

L'autore

Helen Simons is Professor Emeritus of Education and Evaluation, University of Southampton

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• Editore: Sage Pubns Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0761964231
• ISBN 13: 9780761964230
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 189