How to Do Your Case Study - Gary Thomas

How to Do Your Case Study

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Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2015 | 2nd Revised edition
SAGE Publications Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-4462-8265-6 (ISBN)
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Adopting jargon-free language, this book grounds its advice in concrete experience and real-world cases to provide a vibrant and insightful introduction to the basics of case study research.


 
Vibrant and insightful, this book introduces students and researchers to the basics of case study research. Adopting jargon-free language, it grounds its advice in concrete experience and real-world cases. Using examples from across the social sciences, Gary Thomas provides practical guidance on how best to read, design and carry out case study research with a focus on how to manage and analyze data.


The new edition of this bestselling book addresses crucial issues around ethics and has improved coverage of key themes such as rigor, validity, generalization and the analysis of case studies. It demystifies case study research and answers important questions such as:




What is a case study?
When and why should case study methods be used?
How are case studies designed?
What methods can be used?
How do we analyze and make sense of our data?
How do we write up and write about our case?


Bursting with real-world examples and multidisciplinary cases, and supported by a dynamic new website, this book is essential reading for any student or researcher in the social sciences and humanities.

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.

Part 1: Getting Your Bearings
Chapter 1: What Is a Case Study?
Chapter 2: Case Study and Research Design
Chapter 3: Models of the Whole
Chapter 4: Ensuring Quality in Your Case Study: What′s Important?
Part 2: Getting Down to Doing It
Chapter 5: Kinds of Case Studies: Finding Your Case
Chapter 6: Your Purpose
Chapter 7: Your Approach
Chapter 8: Your Process
Part 3: Getting On With It and Finishing
Chapter 9: Out in the Field: Some Ways to Collect Data and Evidence
Chapter 10: A Toolkit for Analyzing and Thinking
Chapter 11: Writing Your Study
Chapter 12: The Fancy Stuff: Generalization, Induction, Abduction, Phronesis and Theory

Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 170 x 242 mm
Gewicht 500 g
ISBN-10 1-4462-8265-1 / 1446282651
ISBN-13 978-1-4462-8265-6 / 9781446282656
Zustand Neuware
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