How to Do Your Case Study: A Guide for Students and Researchers - Brossura

Thomas, Gary

 
9780857025630: How to Do Your Case Study: A Guide for Students and Researchers
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ISBN 10: 0857025635 ISBN 13: 9780857025630
Casa editrice: Sage Pubns Ltd, 2011

Sinossi

Case Study is one of the most widely applied methods of research and instruction in use today. Cases are used to frame research, aid teaching and help learning the world over. Yet, despite being so widely used, there remains a great deal of uncertainty about what constitutes case study research and how case studies should be designed and carried out.

In this lucid, accessible and often witty new text, Gary Thomas introduces students and researchers to the basics of case study research. Using a wide range of real-life examples, this book sets out for those new to the method how best to design and carry out case studies in the social sciences and humanities

How to do your case study: a guide for students and researchers deals with the core issues and methods that anyone new to case study will need to understand:

- What is a case study?

- When and why should case study methods be used?

- How are case studies designed?

- What methods can be used?

- How do we analyse and make sense of our data?

- How do we write up and write about our case?

How to do your Case Study will be essential reading for any student or researcher in the Social Sciences, Health Sciences, in Business Studies, in Education and the Humanities.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Gary Thomas is a professor of education at the University of Birmingham. His teaching and research have focused on inclusion, special education and research methodology in education, with a particular focus on case study. He has co-edited the International Journal of Research and Method in Education and the British Educational Research Journal and is currently executive editor of Educational Review.

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Editore
Sage Pubns Ltd
Data di pubblicazione
2011
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0857025635
ISBN 13 
9780857025630
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
248
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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ISBN 10:  1446282651 ISBN 13:  9781446282656
Casa editrice: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2015
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