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“norma gonzalez”

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  • Funds of Knowledge

    Theorizing Practices in Households, Communities, and Classrooms

    Edited by Norma Gonzalez, Luis C. Moll, Cathy Amanti ...
    The concept of "funds of knowledge" is based on a simple premise: people are competent and have knowledge, and their life experiences have given them that knowledge. The claim in this book is that first-hand research experiences with families allow one to document this competence and knowledge, and that such engagement provides many possibilities for positive pedagogical actions.Drawing from both ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

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  • When Research Goes Off the Rails

    Why It Happens and What You Can Do About It

    Edited by David L. Streiner, PhD, Souraya Sidani, PhD ...
    Few behavioral or health science studies proceed seamlessly. This refreshingly candid guide presents firsthand vignettes of obstacles on the bumpy road of research and offers feasible, easy-to-implement solutions. Contributors from a range of disciplines describe real-world problems at each stage of a quantitative or qualitative research project—from gaining review board approval to collecting and ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Five Ways of Doing Qualitative Analysis

    Phenomenological Psychology, Grounded Theory, Discourse Analysis, Narrative Research, and Intuitive

    by Frederick J. Wertz, PhD, Kathy Charmaz, PhD, Linda M. McMullen, PhD, Ruthellen Josselson, PhD, Rosemarie Anderson, PhD, Emalinda McSpadden, MA ...
    This unique text provides a broad introduction to qualitative analysis together with concrete demonstrations and comparisons of five major approaches. Leading scholars apply their respective analytic lenses to a narrative account and interview featuring "Teresa," a young opera singer who experienced a career-changing illness. The resulting analyses vividly exemplify what each approach looks like ... Read more

    $70.39 CAD

  • Writing the Qualitative Dissertation

    Understanding by Doing

    by Judith M. Meloy ...
    The purpose of this book is to share, in rich detail, an understanding of how it feels and what it means to do qualitative research, and to provide support for doctoral students who choose this form of inquiry for their dissertation research. ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Missing Data

    A Gentle Introduction

    by Patrick E. McKnight, PhD, Katherine M. McKnight, PhD, Souraya Sidani, PhD, Aurelio José Figueredo, PhD ...
    Series series Methodology in the Social Sciences Series
    While most books on missing data focus on applying sophisticated statistical techniques to deal with the problem after it has occurred, this volume provides a methodology for the control and prevention of missing data. In clear, nontechnical language, the authors help the reader understand the different types of missing data and their implications for the reliability, validity, and ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Introductory Statistics

    A Conceptual Approach Using R

    by William B. Ware, John M. Ferron, Barbara M. Miller ...
    This comprehensive and uniquely organized text is aimed at undergraduate and graduate level statistics courses in education, psychology, and other social sciences. A conceptual approach, built around common issues and problems rather than statistical techniques, allows students to understand the conceptual nature of statistical procedures and to focus more on cases and examples of analysis. ... Read more

    $236.99 CAD

  • Evaluation in the Face of Uncertainty

    Anticipating Surprise and Responding to the Inevitable

    by Jonathan A. Morell, PhD ...
    Unexpected events during an evaluation all too often send evaluators into crisis mode. This insightful book provides a systematic framework for diagnosing, anticipating, accommodating, and reining in costs of evaluation surprises. The result is evaluation that is better from a methodological point of view, and more responsive to stakeholders. Jonathan A. Morell identifies the types of surprises ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Understanding and Evaluating Research in Applied and Clinical Settings

    by George A. Morgan, Jeffrey A. Gliner, Robert J. Harmon ...
    Clinically oriented professionals and students need to understand and evaluate the research and statistics in professional articles, especially given today's emphasis on evidence-based practice. This book demonstrates how the research approach and design help determine the appropriate statistical analysis. Understanding and Evaluating Research in Applied and Clinical Settings features:*short, ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD

  • Qualitative Research from Start to Finish

    by Robert K. Yin, PhD ...
    This book will help readers understand the practice of qualitative research--whether they want to do it, teach it, or just learn about it. All the major research phases are encompassed (startup, design, data collection, analysis, and composing), including newly emerging trends. Numerous easy-to-read vignettes show how other scholars have successfully implemented specific procedures. Equally ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • The Research Compendium

    Review and Abstracts of Graduate Research, 1942-1962

    Edited by Margaret Avison, Albert Rose, Florence Strakhovsky ...
    Series series Heritage
    This book represents an important contribution by the School of Social Work at the University of Toronto. It is a record of a carefully designed plan to include a worthwhile research experience in the educational programme of every student engaged in graduate education for the profession. In the introductory essay Dr. Albert Rose explains the methods by which this educational objective has been ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Literacy and Mobility

    Complexity, Uncertainty, and Agency at the Nexus of High School and College

    by Brice Nordquist ...
    Series series Expanding Literacies in Education
    Pushing forward research on emerging literacies and theoretical orientations, this book follows students from different tracks of high school English in a "failing" U.S. public school through their first two years in universities, colleges, and jobs. Analytical and methodological tools from new literacy and mobility studies are employed to investigate relations among patterns of movement and ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Points of Viewing Children's Thinking

    by Ricki Goldman-Segall, Ricki Goldman ...
    This book is about learning and ethnography in the context of technologies. Simultaneously, it portrays young people's "thinking attitudes" in computer-based learning environments, and it describes how the practice of ethnography is changing in a digital world. The author likens this form of interaction to "the double helix," where learning and ethnography are intertwined to tell an emergent story ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD