Constructivist Approaches and Research Methods: A Practical Guide to Exploring Personal Meanings
Autor Pam Denicolo, Trevor Long, Kim Bradley-Coleen Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 sep 2016
From the theoretical underpinnings of constructivist approaches to the practical values of these techniques, these three expert authors explain how to conduct interpretative, constructivist research from inception to completion. Key topics include:
- Understanding research philosophies and paradigms
- Constructing and exploring personal realities
- Establishing effective research procedures
- Evaluating grids, mapping, narrative and other research methods
- Managing the practicalities of fieldwork
- Analysing and presenting data
An essential companion for both researchers and practitioners looking to understand people’s values, attitudes, beliefs, perceptions, or motivations!
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1473930308
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 170 x 242 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications Ltd
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
An excellent overview of the issues facing the constructivist researcher. Graduate students will value its helpful handling of the paradigm debate, while the newcomer to constructivist research will receive a solid grounding in constructivist methods that goes beyond the basic grid interview technique.
This book illustrates a perfect connection, through the personal constructs theory, between an epistemological perspective, constructivism, and its possible methods. It is a useful and complete guide for researchers who are interested in exploring both how people construe their world and their personal perspectives as researchers themselves.
Theoretically rich and provocative of deep reflection in the field to which it is primarily addressed, but equally in any field of enquiry and practice where one works with human beings to enhance their optimal functioning. Yet, eminently practical and with ‘Activities’ that cannot but challenge habitual modes of meaning-making.
Cuprins
Chapter 1: Introduction and orientation to constructivist research
Chapter 2: Understanding the nature of constructivist approaches
Chapter 3: Linking philosophy and theory to research purpose
Chapter 4: Constructing personal realities
Part II: Practicalities of Engaging in Constructivist Research
Chapter 5: Exploring personal realities
Chapter 6: Setting the climate for effective research encounters
Chapter 7: An evaluation of a range of potential research techniques
Chapter 8: An evaluation of a range of potential research designs
Chapter 9: Realities and practicalities in managing fieldwork
Chapter 10: Data analysis, meaning interpretation and management/presentation issues
Part III: How others have used PCP – sample research cases
Chapter 11: Cases using different designs
Chapter 12: Constructive alternatives, psychic mirrors and narrative turns: reflections on a lifetime as a personal construct researcher
Notă biografică
Working across a range of disciplines (Psychology, Health & Social Care and Pharmacy), Pam Denicolo, a Professor Emerita from the University of Reading, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and an Honorary Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, has wide-ranging experience both of using a range of research approaches and methods and of teaching how to use them well to a broad range of students and professionals world-wide. She has served on executive boards and committees of national and international learned societies and organisations devoted to research and teaching. She continues to publish widely student support materials, books, and journal articles on research because she remains passionately committed to mentoring and coaching newer researchers and academics.