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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 | |