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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Contributor biographies | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Reading, Reviewing and Reflecting | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Research in the Social Sciences | |
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| Working with Literatures | |
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| Ethical Issues in Generating Public Knowledge | |
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| Listening, Exploring the Case and Theorizing | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Ethnography | |
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| Research Diaries | |
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| Case Study | |
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| Interviewing and Focus Groups | |
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| Addressing Issues of Power and Researching for Impact | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Feminist Methodologies | |
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| Critical Race Theory and Its Use in Social Science Research | |
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| Queer Theory/Lesbian and Gay Approaches | |
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| Action Research | |
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| The Purpose, Practice and Politics of Sponsored Evaluations | |
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| Observing, Querying, Interpreting | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Grounded Theory | |
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| Understanding Phenomenology through Reverse Perspectives | |
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| Observation | |
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| Discourse Analysis | |
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| Researching Online Practices | |
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| Identity, Community and Representation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Life History and Narrative Methods | |
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| Social Semiotics and Multimodal Texts | |
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| Communities of Practice | |
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| Activity Theory | |
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| Researching Policy | |
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| Quantitative Methods: Theories and Perspectives | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Practice of Quantitative Methods | |
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| The Positivist Paradigm in Contemporary Social Research: The Interface of Psychology, Method and Sociocultural Theory | |
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| Understanding and Describing Quantitative Data | |
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| Differences and Relationships in Quantitative Data | |
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| An Introduction to Statistical Modelling | |
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| Quantitative Methods in Action | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Social Inquiry | |
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| Random Reflections on Modelling, Geography and Voting | |
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| Methodological Issues in International Comparative Assessments of Educational Progress | |
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| Evaluating Literacy Advance in the Early Years of School | |
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| Working Backwards: The Road Less Travelled in Quantitative Methodology | |
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| Researching in Postmodern Contexts | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Deconstruction | |
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| From Hermeneutics to Post-Structuralism to Psycholanalysis | |
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| From Structuralism to Post-Structuralism | |
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| Feminism/Post-Structuralism | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |