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How to Do Your Case Study 3rd Revised edition [Minkštas viršelis]

  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 320 pages, aukštis x plotis: 242x170 mm, weight: 1130 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 24-Feb-2021
  • Leidėjas: Sage Publications Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1529704952
  • ISBN-13: 9781529704952
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 320 pages, aukštis x plotis: 242x170 mm, weight: 1130 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 24-Feb-2021
  • Leidėjas: Sage Publications Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1529704952
  • ISBN-13: 9781529704952
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
This accessible guide takes you through the process of designing, conducting and writing up a research project using case study methods. In his characteristic warm and friendly style, Gary Thomas covers each step at a confidence-building pace, helping you to get to grips with the theory and practice of doing a case study.

Focusing on vital issues like validity, reliability and quality in research, the author helps you ensure your research is rigorous and methodologically sound. This third edition:

·       Offers an expanded discussion of key ethical issues in case study research

·       Provides up to date information about using social media in research

·       Presents a new navigation tool to help you plan your case study project

·       Enables you to develop the skills you need to become a critical and reflexive researcher

Covering international examples of case study in practice and accompanied by downloadable checklists and templates, this book is the perfect companion to help you successfully complete a case study.



Focusing on vital issues like validity, reliability and quality in research, this guide helps you ensure that your case study research is rigorous and methodologically sound. Gary Thomas' warm and friendly style takes you through the process of designing, conducting and writing up a research project using case study methods, covering each step at a confidence-building pace which helps you get to grips with the theory and practice involved.

Recenzijos

The learning features are excellent. I love the highlight boxes and the If you take only one thing... feature. It is also good to have further reading at the end of each chapter. Overall, this is an excellent book on case study design. -- Shirley Larkin

About the author x
Preface xi
Online resources xiii
A roadmap for conducting a case study, using this book xiv
STAGE 1 GETTING YOUR BEARINGS
xviii
1 What is a case study?
3(24)
Is the case study scientific?
7(2)
Some definitions
9(3)
What is a case?
12(2)
The subject and object of a case study
14(7)
Forms of case study and six steps to follow in devising your own
21(3)
If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this
24(1)
Reflective activity
25(1)
Further reading
25(2)
2 The case study and research design
27(22)
First things first: your purpose
27(1)
Next, your question
28(2)
Literature review
30(1)
Using the literature and a storyboard to help you design your case study
31(7)
This case study in the typology
38(1)
How to go from idea to question to case study
39(5)
Questions and different approaches to research
44(3)
Design frames and methods
47(1)
If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this
47(1)
Reflective activity
48(1)
Further reading
48(1)
3 The whole is more than the sum of the parts: seeing a complete picture
49(17)
Break things down or see them as wholes?
49(3)
Gestalt psychology
52(2)
Dramas, theatres and stages
54(2)
Ecological psychology
56(3)
Systems thinking
59(4)
If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this
63(1)
Reflective activity
64(1)
Further reading
64(2)
4 Rigour and quality in your case study: what is important?
66(19)
Is the `sample' important in case study?
66(2)
Do I have to worry about reliability and validity in a case study?
68(3)
Triangulation
71(2)
Positionality
73(1)
Generalisation
73(3)
Theory
76(3)
Finding or regularising
79(1)
Quality
80(2)
If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this
82(1)
Reflective activity
83(1)
Further reading
83(2)
5 Ethics
85(21)
Your participants
85(1)
Vulnerable groups
86(1)
Participants' activity
87(1)
Deception or concealment
88(1)
Confidentiality and anonymity
88(2)
Data security and stewardship
90(1)
Consent
90(2)
Risk
92(6)
Contacting participants
98(1)
Ethics and social media
98(1)
Care for your participants - and yourself
99(1)
Where do I put discussion about ethics in my case study write-up?
99(1)
Getting clearance - ethical review
99(3)
If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this
102(1)
Reflective activity
103(1)
Further reading
103(3)
STAGE 2 CHOOSING A CASE AND STRUCTURING YOUR STUDY
106(94)
6 Different kinds of case studies: selecting a subject for your case study
109(18)
How do you select your case study subject?
110(12)
Same starting points, different paths - there is no single right way
122(1)
The typology in practice
123(1)
If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this
124(1)
Reflective activity
125(1)
Further reading
125(2)
7 Your purpose: thinking about the object of your study
127(17)
Intrinsic
128(1)
Instrumental
128(1)
Evaluative
129(2)
Explanatory
131(4)
Exploratory
135(6)
If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this
141(1)
Reflective activity
142(1)
Further reading
142(2)
8 Your approach: theory testing or theory building; interpretation or illustration
144(30)
Theory testing or theory building
145(1)
Building a theory
145(4)
Testing a theory
149(3)
Drawing a picture - illustrative-demonstrative
152(7)
Interpretative
159(6)
Experimental
165(6)
If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this
171(1)
Reflective activity
171(1)
Further reading
172(2)
9 Your process: the shape, style and manner of your case study
174(26)
The single case
175(3)
Time as a dimension of the case study
178(8)
The multiple or collective or comparative case (or cross-case analysis)
186(5)
Nested case studies
191(4)
Parallel and sequential studies
195(2)
If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this
197(1)
Reflective activity
198(1)
Further reading v
199(1)
STAGE 3 COLLECTING EVIDENCE, ANALYSING AND WRITING IT UP
200(84)
10 Out in the field: some ways to collect data and evidence
203(20)
Interviews
205(1)
Accounts
206(1)
Diaries
207(3)
Group interviews and focus groups
210(1)
Interrogating documents
211(1)
Questionnaires
212(3)
Observation
215(2)
Image-based methods
217(1)
Measurements and tests
218(1)
Official statistics and other numerical data
219(1)
Using social media
220(1)
If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this
220(1)
Reflective activity
221(1)
Further reading
222(1)
11 Analysis: a toolkit for analysing and thinking in case study
223(39)
Interpretative inquiry: eliciting themes
224(12)
Sociograms
236(2)
Systems thinking
238(2)
Drawing storyboards - the nuts and bolts
240(2)
Developing your theory
242(6)
Using narrative
248(6)
Think drama
254(2)
Being intuitive and imaginative
256(2)
If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this
258(1)
Reflective activity
259(1)
Further reading
260(2)
12 Writing your study
262(22)
Structure
262(3)
Writing up your case study
265(5)
Two examples of good analysis, argument and writing
270(5)
Some rules for writers
275(2)
Remember you have an audience
277(1)
If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this...
278(1)
...and this - a final thought
279(1)
Reflective activity
280(1)
Further reading
280(3)
Other reading
283(1)
References 284(10)
Index 294
Gary Thomas is an emeritus 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 conducted research funded by the AHRC, the ESRC, the Nuffield Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, the Department for Education, Barnardos, local authorities, and a range of other organisations. He has coedited the British Educational Research Journal and is currently an executive editor of Educational Review. He is author of many books, most recently Education: A Very Short Introduction published by Oxford University Press.