Improving Schools Through Action Research (What's New in Ed Psych / Tests & Measurements)
by Cher Hendricks
Gives readers a brief, user-friendly, solid look at the action research cycle and the knowledge to work through each step. KEY TOPICS: Education, action research, improving schools, reflection, teacher empowerment, teacher research, school administrators, educational leadership MARKET: Written for pre-service and in-service educators, including principals, counselors, administrators, and support staff.
This powerful resource is for researchers and educational leaders who are interested in understanding and applying research methods that emphasize youth voice. The authors argue that most educational research either omits critical understandings of youth or, even worse, presents inaccuracies due to faulty techniques. Researching how youth experience their schools and communities requires specific conceptual tools that address researcher bias, power dynamics, and the contextual considerations tha...
This approachable introduction to doing data science in R provides step-by-step advice on using the tools and statistical methods to carry out data analysis. Introducing the fundamentals of data science and R before moving into more advanced topics like Multilevel Models and Probabilistic Modelling with Stan, it builds knowledge and skills gradually. This book: Focuses on providing practical guidance for all aspects, helping readers get to grips with the tools, software, and statistical method...
Praxis II Social Studies (5081) Study Guide
by Praxis II Social Studies Exam Prep
Managing Transitions examines the history and roles of China's minor parties and groups (MPG's) in the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) united front between the 1930's and 1990's using Antonio Gramsci's principles for the winning and maintaining of hegemony. Gramsci advocated a "war of position," the building of political alliances to isolate existing state powers and win consent for revolutionary rule and transform society. Economic reform is now creating new socio-economic groups and the CCP is...
Trends in Fatal Car-occupant Accidents (Road Safety Research Report S., #76)
by Heather Ward, Nicola Christie, Ronan Lyons, Jeremy Broughton, David Clarke, and Patrick Ward
The concept of "chaos", and chaos theory, though it is a field of study specifically in the field of mathematics with applications in physics, engineering, economics, management, and education, has also recently taken root in the social sciences. As a method of analyzing the way in which the digital age has connected society more than ever, chaos and complexity theory serves as a tactic to tie world events and cope with the information overload that is associated with heightened social connectiv...
Conducting Meaningful Experiments
by Professor Emeritus R Barker Bausell
Changing Values, Attitudes and Behaviours in Ireland
by Michael J. Breen and Amy Erbe Healy
The European Social Survey (the ESS) is an academically-driven social survey designed to chart and explain the interaction between Europe’s changing institutions and the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of its diverse populations. Established in 2001, and currently preparing for its seventh round, this biennial cross-sectional survey covers more than thirty nations and employs the most rigorous methodologies. This volume provides an analysis of the Irish data over six rounds of the Euro...
Schools' Concerns and Their Implications for Local Authorities
by Tamsin Chamberlain, Karen Gail Lewis, and David Teeman
Rsf: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences (Rsf: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Scien)
Digital Methods for Complex Datasets (International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing Special Issues)
Seeking to challenge the focus on 'big data' by understanding it outside of the computational power required to process it, this volume explores the role of digital methods in the future of digital humanities research. The essays are united by the theme of complexity - but manifest that complexity across an unusual spectrum. The methods included rise out of fields of study including library and information science, informatics, literary studies, English, and computer science. Sources explored in...
Have you ever thought research is boring? "Research" writes Umberto Eco "should be fun". It seems unlikely that Umberto Eco has read many of the standard social science or education research texts. But social research does offer the possibility of involvement in projects that are informative, sometimes revealing, and fun to do. This book shows us that teaching, learning and research are essentially social and deeply personal activities and that fun needs to be an integral part of this. This is n...
Enjeux de la Diffusion lectronique Des Recherches (Omn.Univ.Europ.)
by Begault-B
Lost Childhood explores the everyday lives of street children in India. It presents insights on their life on the streets to provide a comprehensive understanding of why they are driven to extreme means of livelihoods. This volume, * Inquiries into the histories of street children, and discusses their socio-economic and socio-demographic characteristics to provide a sense of their living conditions; * Sheds light on the social injustice experienced by these children, their health and hygiene,...
This book is specifically devoted to qualitative research methods in fashion studies. It traces the history of fashion studies and provides readers with a guided introduction to the entire research process. It gives an overview of the key methodological approaches such as ethnography, semiology, and object-based research, and shows the student reader how "to do" research by combining theoretical and practical perspectives. Using case studies, the author outlines the major issues and methodologic...
European Perceptions of China and Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative (East and West, #11)
European Perceptions of China and Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative is a collection of fourteen essays on the way China is perceived in Europe today. These perceptions - and they are multiple - are particularly important to the People's Republic of China as the country grapples with its increasingly prominent role on the international stage, and equally important to Europe as it attempts to come to terms with the technological, social and economic advances of the Belt and Road Initiat...
Poverty in the 1990s
by Tim Callan, Brian Nolan, Brendan J. Whelan, Christopher T. Whelan, and James Williams