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Becoming A Researcher: A Research Companion For The Social Sciences

A Companion to the Research Process

By: Dunne, Mairead,Pryor, John,Yates, Paul

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Becoming A Researcher: A Research Companion For The Social Sciences

A Companion to the Research Process

By: Dunne, Mairead,Pryor, John,Yates, Paul

This innovative book combines what most books separate: research as practical activity and research as intellectual engagement. It clarifies and makes explicit the methodological issues that underlie the journey from initial research idea to the finished report and beyond. The text moves the researcher logically through the research process and provides insights into methodology through an in-depth discussion of methods. It presents the research process as an engagement with text. This theme moves through the construction of text in the form of data and the deconstruction of text in analysis. Finally the focus moves to the reconstruction of text through the re-presentation of the research in the report. Following through each of these stages in turn, the chapters consider either a practical issue or a group of methods and interrogate the associated methodological concerns. In addition, the book also addresses the rarely explored issues of the researcher as writer and researcher identity as core elements of the research process. The book provides a range of insights and original perspectives. These successfully combine practical guidance with the invitation to consider the problematic nature of research as social practice. It is an ideal reference for those embarking on research for the first time and provides a new methodological agenda for established researchers.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335213944

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Assessing Children'S Mathematical Knowledge

Social Class, Sex, and Problem-solving

By: Cooper, Barry,Dunne, Mairead

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Assessing Children'S Mathematical Knowledge

Social Class, Sex, and Problem-solving

By: Cooper, Barry,Dunne, Mairead

this work is highly relevant to the proliferation of accountability measures worldwide' James Scheurich and Douglas Foley In many countries, the lives of teachers and children are increasingly dominated by programmes of national testing of mathematics and other subjects. In England, the majority of the items in such tests have set mathematical tasks in every day situations such as 'shopping'. This requires children to make decisions about whether to use or not their own every day knowledge and experience in their problem-solving. Some children are likely to have a better 'feel for this game' than others. Assessing Children's Mathematical Knowledge draws on the analysis of national curriculum test data from more than 600 children of 10-11 and 13-14 years of age, as well as in-depth interviews with 250 of these as they attempt to solve test problems, in order to explore the nature of the difficulties children experience with 'realistic' items. The book shows, by comparing test and interview data, that many children, as a consequence of their confusion over the requirements of 'realistic' test items, fail in tests to demonstrate mathematical knowledge and understanding that they actually possess. The book also explores whether this problem of invalid measurement is equally spread across children from different social backgrounds, and across the sexes. The book will be of interest to academics and teachers studying for advanced degrees in mathematics education, sociology of education and educational assessment.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335203167

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9780335203161

Character, Scene, and Story

New Tools from the Dramatic Writer's Companion

By: Will Dunne

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Character, Scene, and Story

New Tools from the Dramatic Writer's Companion

By: Will Dunne

The author of The Dramatic Writer’s Companion offers forty-two new exercises to help playwrights and screenwriters explore, develop, and strengthen their work. Will Dunne first captured the workshop experience in The Dramatic Writer’s Companion, offering practical exercises to help playwrights and screenwriters work through the problems that arise in developing their scripts. Now writers looking to further enhance their storytelling process can turn to Character, Scene, and Story. Featuring forty-two new workshop-tested exercises, this volume allows writers to dig deeper into their scripts by fleshing out images, exploring characters from an emotional perspective, tapping the power of color and sense memory to trigger ideas, and trying other visceral techniques. The guide also includes a troubleshooting section to help tackle problem scenes, as well as hundreds of examples, many of which have been developed as both plays and films. Character, Scene, and Story is fully aligned with the new edition of The Dramatic Writer’s Companion, with cross-references between related exercises so that writers have the option to explore a given topic in more depth. While both guides can stand alone, together they give writers more than one hundred tools to develop more vivid characters and craft stronger scripts.

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University of Chicago Press

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022639364X

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9780226393643

Shared Lives

Building Relationships and Community with People who Have Intellectual Disabilities

By: Roy McConkey,John Dunne,Nick Blitz

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Shared Lives

Building Relationships and Community with People who Have Intellectual Disabilities

By: Roy McConkey,John Dunne,Nick Blitz

Written by three authors who combine a wealth of expertise as researchers, clinicians and practitioners, this challenging book presents a renewed vision for the support of people with intellectual disabilities.

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BRILL

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908790942X

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A Killing Moon (DI Damen Brook 5)

By: Steven Dunne

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A Killing Moon (DI Damen Brook 5)

By: Steven Dunne

For the young woman kidnapped on her way home from the pub, the nightmare is about to begin... Weeks after Caitlin Kinnear goes missing, the police are unable to break her case. Worse they are not even certain harm has come to her. But determined to pursue all leads, DI Damen Brook and his team begin to trawl through the murky world of cheap migrant labour. Convinced that the answers lie hidden within its depths, Brook soon begins to realise Caitlin is in terrible danger. When the body of another young girl turns up it becomes clear that Caitlin's abduction might not be an isolated incident and the race is on to save her. But with time running out, can Brook put the pieces together and find Caitlin before it's too late?

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Becoming a Researcher

By: Mairead Dunne,John Pryor,Paul Yates

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Becoming a Researcher

By: Mairead Dunne,John Pryor,Paul Yates

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Becoming a Researcher

By: Mairead Dunne,John Pryor,Paul Yates

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Becoming a Researcher

A Companion to the Research Process

By: Máiréad Dunne,John Pryor,Paul Yates

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A Companion to the Research Process

By: Máiréad Dunne,John Pryor,Paul Yates

This volume moves the beginning researcher logically through the research process and provides insights into methodology through an in-depth discussion of methods.

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Becoming A Researcher: A Research Companion For The Social Sciences

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Shared Lives

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