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| Vorheriger Titel: | O'Leary, Zina The essential guide to doing research |
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Los Angeles, Calif. [u.a.]
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2010
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| Beschreibung: | Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke Literaturangaben |
| Beschreibung: | X, 308 S. graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 9781848600119 9781848600102 |
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Autor: O Leary, Zina
Jahr: 2010
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements xi
1 Taking the Leap into the Research World 1
The challenge of tackling a research project 1
So what is this thing called research and why do it? 2
The need for research knowledge 2
The potential of research knowledge 3
Delving into the construct of research 4
Ontology and epistemology 4
Competing positions 5
The position of the reflexive researcher 7
Getting help along the way 8
The structure of the book 8
How to get the most out of the book 10
Further reading 10
Chapter summary 12
2 Getting Started 14
On your mark, get set, go! 14
Navigating the process 15
Understanding your programme 16
Getting set up 18
Getting the right advice 18
Managing the workload 20
Staying on course 22
Finding a balance 22
Dealing with crisis 23
Further reading 25
Chapter summary 25
3 Striving for Integrity in the Research Process 27
Power, politics, ethics, and research integrity 27
Understanding the power game 28
vi THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO DOING YOUR RESEARCH PROJECT
Credibility: integrity in the production of knowledge ^
Working with appropriate indicators
Managing subjectivities
Capturing truth „_
Approaching methods with consistency
Making relevant and appropriate arguments
Providing accurate and verifiable research accounts
39
Ethics: integrity and the researched
Legal obligations . „
Moral obligations ..
Ethical obligations „
Ethics approval processes
Integrity indicators and checklist
Further reading , .
Chapter summary
46
4 Developing Your Research Question
The importance of good questions
Defining your topic
Curiosity and creativity
Looking for inspiration
Practicalities
From interesting topics to researchable questions
Narrowing in
The need to redefine
The hypothesis dilemma
Hypothesis defined
Appropriateness
Characteristics of good questions
Further reading
Chapter summary
5 Crafting a Research Proposal 61
The role of the proposal
Demonstrating merits of the research question
Demonstrating merits of the proposed methods
Demonstrating merits of the researcher
Elements of the proposal °4
Writing a winning proposal 66
Following guidelines 66
Writing purposively 67
Drafting and redrafting 67
Obstacles and challenges 68
When your design does not fit proposal requirements 68
When your design is emergent 68
When want to or need to change direction/method 69
CONTENTS vii
Further reading 70
Chapter summary 70
Working with Literature 71
The importance of literature 71
The role of literature 72
Sourcing relevant literature 75
Types of literature 75
Calling on experts 76
Honing your search skills 76
Managing the literature 77
Assessing relevance 78
Being systematic 78
Annotating references 79
Writing the formal literature review 81
Purpose 81
Coverage 82
The writing process 83
Further reading 86
Chapter summary 86
Designing a Research Plan 88
Methodology, methods, and tools 88
The relationship between methodology and methods 89
Moving from questions to answers 89
Finding a path 90
Hitting the target 91
Getting down to the nitty-gritty 98
Fundamental questions 98
Emergent methodological design 101
Further reading 102
Chapter summary 102
Understanding Methodologies: Quantitative, Qualitative,
and Mixed Approaches 104
Understanding the quantitative/qualitative divide 104
The quantitative tradition 106
Scientific/hypothetico-deductive methods 106
Experimental design 107
Exploring a population 110
The qualitative tradition 113
Credibility in qualitative studies 114
Ethnography 115
Phenomenology 119
Ethnomethodology 123
Understanding feminist approaches 126
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127
Mixed methodology
Arguments for mixed methodology
Perspectives and strategies
Challenges and obstacles ™
Further reading
Chapter summary
9 Understanding Methodologies: Evaluative, Action-Oriented,
and Emancipatory Strategies
Research that attempts to drive change
Evaluation research
Summative/outcome evaluation
Formative/process evaluation
The politics of evaluative research
Negotiating real-world challenges of evaluative research I42
Action research
The scope of action research
148
Key elements of action research
Challenges associated with action research
152
Emancipatory research
Participatory action research
Critical ethnography
Issues in emancipatory research
Further reading
158
Chapter summary
10 Seeking Respondents l60
Who holds the answer? 160
Samples: selecting elements of a population *
Opportunities in working with a sample
Sample selection ^
Random samples *
Non-random samples 1
Key informants: Working with experts and insiders 169
Opportunities in working with key informants ^
Informant selection 172
Cases: delving into detail 1^3
Opportunities in working with cases 174
Case selection 175
Further reading 177
Chapter summary 178
11 Direct Data Collection: Surveys and Interviews l80
The challenge of getting data directly from the source l8°
Surveying 180
Options and possibilities 181
CONTENTS ix
Issues and complexities 182
The survey process 183
The survey instrument 186
Interviewing 194
Options and possibilities 194
Issues and complexities 196
The interview process 199
Conducting your interview 202
Further reading 205
Chapter summary 206
12 Indirect Data Collection: Working with Observations
and Existing Text 208
The challenge of gathering indirect data 208
Observation 209
Options and possibilities 209
Issues and complexities 211
The observation process 213
Receiving, reflecting, recording, authenticating 215
Working with existing texts 217
Options and possibilities 218
Issues and complexities 218
The process of textual analysis 221
Delving into documents, history, artefacts, and secondary data 223
Further reading 227
Chapter summary 228
13 Analysing Quantitative Data 230
Moving from raw data to significant findings 230
Keeping a sense of the overall project 230
Doing statistical analysis 232
Managing data and defining variables 233
Data management 233
Understanding variables - cause and effect 236
Understanding variables - measurement scales 236
Descriptive statistics 237
Measuring central tendency 237
Measuring dispersion 238
Measuring the shape of the data 239
Inferential statistics 240
Questions suitable to inferential statistics 241
Statistical significance 242
Understanding and selecting the right statistical test 243
Presenting quantitative data 244
Further reading 253
Chapter summary 254
THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO DOING YOUR RESEARCH PROJECT
14 Analysing Qualitative Data
The promise of qualitative analysis
Keeping the bigger picture in focus
From raw data to significant findings
QDA software J59
The logic of QDA
Balancing creativity and focus
Moving between inductive and deductive reasoning
The methods of QDA 262
Identifying biases/noting impressions
Reducing and coding into themes
Looking for patterns and interconnections
Mapping and building themes
Developing theory
Drawing conclusions
Specific QDA strategies 269
Presenting qualitative data
Further reading
277
Chapter summary
15 The Challenge of Writing Up 278
The writing challenge
Research as communication
979
Knowing and engaging your audience
Finding an appropriate structure and style
The writing process
Writing as analysis 2
Constructing your story Ä
Developing each section/chapter
From first to final draft 288
The need for exposure 2
Attending conferences ^
Giving presentations 293
Writing and submitting articles 294
The final word 294
Further reading 294
Chapter summary 295
Bibliography 297
Index 305
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