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Planning Your Qualitative Research Thesis and Project: An Introduction to Interpretivist Research in Education and the Social Sciences book cover

2nd Edition

Planning Your Qualitative Research Thesis and Project An Introduction to Interpretivist Research in Education and the Social Sciences

By Tom O'Donoghue Copyright 2019
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge
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The new edition of Planning Your Qualitative Research Thesis and Project provides easily accessible worked examples and valuable models which can be used as guides for plans and proposals. By demonstrating the thought and forward planning that is required when proposing a credible interpretivist study, this book provides the reader with all the theory and practical understanding necessary... Read more

List of tables;Preface;Acknowledgements;PART I
An overview of the research process; 1 Introduction; 2 The general background; 3 Posing the questions; 4 What is theory and what is its value?; 5 An example of a ‘perspectives’ study; 6 An example of a study on how participants ‘deal with’ a particular phenomenon; PART II
Extending the range of interpretivist studies; 7 A proposal for a perspectives study; 8 A proposal for a study of how people ‘deal with’ a phenomenon; 9 A proposal for a policy study; 10 A proposal for a life history study; 11 A proposal for an interactionist historical study; 12. Research on problem-focused proposals: Proposal No. 1; 13. Research on problem-focused proposals: proposal No. 2; References; Index

Biography

Tom O'Donoghue is Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education, The University of Western Australia.

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