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  • Navigating the Education Research Maze

    Contextual, Conceptual, Methodological and Transformational Challenges and Opportunities for Researchers

    Edited by Dolene Rossi, Francis Gacenga, Patrick Alan Danaher ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book depicts rigorous and vigorous accounts of strategies used successfully by researchers to negotiate their way through the research maze. The metaphor of the maze evokes several different and sometimes contradictory elements of contemporary education research, including complexity, confusion, messiness, multiplicity and risk. While these are not necessarily or wholly negative attributes, ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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  • Geography, Culture and Education

    Edited by Rod Gerber, M. Williams ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    An important challenge for our world is to understand how cultural understanding and geographical education can be linked and used to improve the global society. We readily accept that our world is constituted by numerous groups of people who are organised by committees, tribes, regions, nations or continental entities. How these groups interact, show concern for each others' well-being and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Experts and Consensus in Social Science

    Edited by Carlo Martini, Marcel Boumans ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book brings together the research of philosophers, sociologists, and social scientists. It examines those areas of scientific practice where reliance on the subjective judgment of experts and practitioners is the main source of useful knowledge to address and possibly, bring solutions to social problems. A common phenomenon in applications of science is that objective evidence does not point ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Virtuous Educational Research

    Conversations on Ethical Practice

    by Julian Stern ...
    Series Book 9 - Religion, Education and Values
    This is a book of conversations with researchers working across Europe, the USA and Africa. It aims to illuminate the lived reality of educational research on a wide variety of topics, including family life in rural South Africa, support for self-harming students in the UK, character development in the USA and Korea, educational leadership in the UK and China, philosophical analysis of education ... Read more

    $77.09 USD

  • Inventive Methods

    The Happening of the Social

    Edited by Celia Lury, Nina Wakeford ...
    Series series CRESC
    Social and cultural research has changed dramatically in the last few years in response to changing conceptions of the empirical, an intensification of interest in interdisciplinary work, and the growing need to communicate with diverse users and audiences. Methods texts, however, have not kept pace with these changes.This volume provides a set of new approaches for the investigation of the ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Community Research for Participation

    From Theory to Method

    Edited by Lisa Goodson, Jenny Phillimore ...
    This book bridges a major gap in knowledge by considering, through a range of reflexive chapters from different disciplinary backgrounds, both theoretical and practical issues relating to community research methodologies.The international contributors consider a number of key epistemological, ontological and methodological questions. They explore what community peer research means in a range of ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Making the Moral Case for Social Sciences

    Stemming the Tide

    by K. Spracklen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The social sciences have a legitimacy problem in the modern world. The natural sciences are viewed as 'proper science' by journalists and policy-makers because they discover 'truths', make money, and help governments solve problems. In turn, defenders of the social sciences borrow the language of instrumentality, profit and policy impact. Karl Spracklen, by contrast, makes the moral case for the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Devolution and Governance

    Wales Between Capacity and Constraint

    by Alistair Cole, Ian Stafford ...
    This book examines the development of Welsh devolution in the context of great economic and political uncertainty. Drawing on research carried out over more than a decade, it explores whether Welsh devolution has developed the capacity to resist internal and external pressures and to continue to pursue a distinctive political and policy agenda. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Transhumanism and Society

    The Social Debate over Human Enhancement

    by Stephen Lilley ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book provides an introductory overview to the social debate over enhancement technologies with an overview of the transhumanists' call to bypass human nature and conservationists' argument in defense of it. The author present this controversy as it unfolds in the contest between transhumanists proponents and conservationists, who push back with an argument to conserve human nature and to ban ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Geographical Sociology

    Theoretical Foundations and Methodological Applications in the Sociology of Location

    by Jeremy R. Porter, Frank M. Howell ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The discipline of Sociology has a rich history of including spatial context in the analysis of social issues. Much of this history has revolved around the development and application of spatial theory aimed at understanding the geographic distribution of social problems, the organization of communities, and the relationship between society and the environment. More recently, the social sciences ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Advances in Social Simulation 2015

    Edited by Lex Hoogduin, Andreas Flache, Wander Jager, Rineke Verbrugge, Charlotte Hemelrijk, Gert de Roo ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book highlights recent developments in the field, presented at the Social Simulation 2015 conference in Groningen, The Netherlands. It covers advances both in applications and methods of social simulation. Societal issues addressed range across complexities in economic systems, opinion dynamics and civil violence, changing mobility patterns, different land-use, transition in the energy system ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Intervention Research in Learning Disabilities

    Edited by Thomas E. Scruggs, Bernice Y.L. Wong ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Intervention Research in Learning Disabilities is based on proceedings of the Symposium on Intervention Research sponsored by the Division for Learning Disabilities (DLD) of the Council for Exceptional Children and held at Purdue University, November 14-16, 1988. It presents a wide range of critical issues and insights, both theoretical and practical, related to research with learning disabled ... Read more

    $49.49 USD