Research

For the early pioneers of the social indicator movement, the possibilities of doing social good by developing the tools of social measurement seemed endless. However, in the early 1980s these high, and perhaps naïve, hopes remained unfulfilled,...

Action! Film is a common and powerful element in the social studies classroom and Cinematic Social Studies explores teaching and learning social studies with film. Teaching with film is a prominent teaching strategy utilized by many teachers on a regular...

This volume, The New Social Studies: People, Projects and Perspectives is not an attempt to be the comprehensive book on the era. Given the sheer number of projects that task would be impossible. However, the current lack of knowledge about the politics,...

The importance of social studies assessment is beyond question. The National Council of the Social Studies' C3 Framework recognizes the importance of high-quality assessments-its major objective, a "deep understanding of the sociocultural world," has as...

(orginally published by Lexington Books, A division of Rowman & Littlefield)Researching and Teaching Social Issues: The Personal Stories and Pedagogical Efforts of Professors of Education is comprised of original personal essays in which notable teacher...

This volume acknowledges two important themes found in recent work in urban sociology. First is the effort to apply new theoretical models to the analysis of the urban landscape, in particular the recent work in the new urban sociology and the renewed...

This fourth volume in the series discusses such topics as building a sense of history in a first-grade classroom, teaching for understanding in a third-grade geography lesson, and social studies education in an urban fourth-grade classroom.Book...

This is the 13th volume in a series designed as a forum for the presentation of conceptual and methodological issues in the field of personnel and human resources management.Book InformationISBN 9781559389433Author Gerald R. FerrisFormat HardbackPage...

First published Open Access under a Creative Commons license as What is Rhythmanalysis?, this title is now also available as part of the Bloomsbury Research Methods series. In recent years, there has been growing interest in Henri Lefebvre’s posthumously...

This volume clearly demonstrates the diversity of our field. Twenty-two scholars have contributed thirteen unique pieces of research on a wide variety of topics including public management innovation; organizational learning; revenue forecasting;...

This volume is divided into two sections, the first presenting work by urban ecologists, the second presenting work by persons working within the broad contours of the new urban sociology. Each section contains chapters written by well-known scholars as...

The concept of community-led research has taken off in recent years in a variety of fields, from archaeology and anthropology to social work and everything in between. Drawing on case studies from Australia, the Pacific and Southeast Asia, this book...

This volume of "Research in Community and Mental Health" is divided into two main sections: social networks within and between organizations and social networks and interpersonal relationships.Book InformationISBN 9781559381406Author Joseph P...

This is the eighth volume in a series on research in community and mental health.Book InformationISBN 9781559381918Author Gary D. LibecapFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint JAI Press Inc.Publisher Emerald Publishing LimitedWeight(grams) 544g

Before the early 1980s, much attention had been given in the social survey literature to the analysis and interpretation of data, but much less to the problems of constructing the individual datum. Yet without good work at datum level a good data set...

The author covers a wider range of software that is used with doing such analysis, and presents how propensity scores can be used to address issues in analyzing data from quasi-experimental designs, and which techniques should be used, and when. This...

This volume covers such topics as the sociology of education, theoretical diversity in the analysis of gender and education, the influence of subject areas on middle school tracking policies, and unifying and differentiating processes in schools and...

This sixth volume in the series covers a variety of topics in research in rural sociology and development.Book InformationISBN 9781559384582Author Thomas A. LysonFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint JAI Press Inc.Publisher Emerald Publishing...

With an annual output, Research in Rural Sociology and Development, publishes scholarly content at the cutting edge of rural sociology. Addressing issues such as rural development and growth, globalization, labour relations, agrarian dynamics, and social...

The turn to biographical methods in social science is yielding a rich harvest of research outcomes and invigorating the relationship between policy and practice. This book uses a range of interpretive approaches to reveal the dynamics of service users'...

While the concept of integration or an interdisciplinary curriculum has been around for decades, the purposeful practice of integration is a relatively new educational endeavour. Though classroom teachers often say they "integrate," there...

This volume of the Research in Global Child Advocacy Series explores participatory methodologies and tools that involve children in research. Perspectives on the role of children have transitioned from viewing children as objects of research, to children...

The importance of social studies assessment is beyond question. The National Council of the Social Studies' C3 Framework recognizes the importance of high-quality assessments-its major objective, a "deep understanding of the sociocultural world," has as...

This work looks at critical issues in social studies teacher education. It covers such topics as: what social studies teachers need to know; social studies teacher education in an era of globalization; social studies teacher education for urban...

The Handbook on Teaching Social Issues, 2nd edition, provides teachers and teacher educators with a comprehensive guide to teaching social issues in the classroom. This second edition re-frames the teaching of social issues with a dedicated emphasis on...

Originally published in 1988 Doing Secondary Analysis is a practical guide to the secondary analysis of large-scale survey data.At a time when funding for primary data collection was increasingly constrained, the secondary analysis of high-quality...

Educational Research is a practical, step-by-step core research text with a truly balanced, inclusive and integrated overview of the processes involved in planning, conducting and evaluating research. It first examines the general steps in the research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783038970095Author Martyn RittmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Mdpi AGPublisher Mdpi AGWeight(grams) 170g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911529248Author Jan OdijkFormat HardbackPage Count 414Imprint Ubiquity PressPublisher Ubiquity PressWeight(grams) 930g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639123838Author Kalaly ChuFormat PaperbackImprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 381g

Reflecting the rising popularity of research that combines qualitative and quantitative social science, Multi-Method Social Science provides the first systematic guide to designing multi-method research. It argues that methods can be productively...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838363288Author Daily LehtmetsFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781485129905Author Renuka & Jonathan Vithal & JansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Juta & Company LtdPublisher Juta & Company...

How do personal networks emerge from social contexts? How do these evolve during the course of a lifetime? How are relationships established, maintained, connected, disrupted? How does the structure of a network evolve as people face transitions and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639171808Author Bamlaku Alamirew AlemuFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639320558Author Heather HarpoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781393799580Author Jose Fernandes Da SilvaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Jose Fernandes Da SilvaPublisher Jose Fernandes Da SilvaWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789987449170Author Hossea M M RwegoshoraFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Mkuki na Nyota PublishersPublisher Mkuki na Nyota PublishersWeight(grams) 549g

Extensively revised and updated to serve today's needs for insight and solutions to the most vexing ethical and regulatory problems faced by researchers today, Planning Ethically Responsible Research, Second Edition guides readers through one of the most...

"A welcome and overdue contribution to the field. Identifying a need for an empirical guide to complement the abundant theoretical literature, this book combines a variety of practical avenues of advice with analytical sophistication, without losing...