The Anatomy of the Case Study

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

AvGary Thomas,Kevin Myers

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This sharp, stimulating title provides a structure for thinking about, analysing and designing case study. It explores the historical, theoretical and practical bones of modern case study research, offering to social scientists a framework for understanding and working with this form of inquiry. Using detailed analysis of examples taken from across the social sciences Thomas and Myers set out, and then work through, an intricate typology of case study design to answer questions such as:

How is a case study constructed?
What are the required, inherent components of case study?
Can a coherent structure be applied to this form of inquiry?

The book grounds complex theoretical insights in real world research and includes an extended example that has been annotated line by line to take the reader through each step of understanding and conducting research using case study.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-06-03
Mått170 x 242 x 9 mm
Vikt280 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor160
Upplaga1
FörlagSAGE Publications
ISBN9781446248645

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Being of a nervous disposition as a child, Gary Thomas failed to write anything on his 11-plus examination paper, which inaction took him to secondary modern school. He eventually became a teacher, then an educational psychologist, then a professor of education at the University of Birmingham, where his teaching, research and writing have focused on inclusive education and the methods used in social science research. He has led a wide range of research projects and has received research funding from the AHRC, the ESRC, the Nuffield Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, the Department for Education, charities such as Barnardo’s and the Cadmean Trust, local authorities and a range of other organisations. He has written or edited 30 books, lots of boring academic articles, and quite interesting essays on the state of education in the national press. He was the editor of journals such as the British Educational Research Journal and Educational Review.He has two grown-up daughters, one daughter at school, and two grandchildren. He likes, in alphabetical order, birds, chess, cycling, dogs, his family, gardening, reading and writing.Despite supporting Aston Villa football club, he maintains an optimistic outlook on life. Kevin Myers is senior lecturer in Social History and Education at the University of Birmingham. He works on the history and sociology of education, and has specific interests in the application of psychological knowledge in school systems. He serves on editorial boards for the journals History of Education, History of Education Review and Paedagogica Historica: International Journal for History of Education.

IntroductionChapter 1: What is case study?Chapter 2: The history of case study and its epistemological statusChapter 3: Generalisation, phronesis and the case studyChapter 4: Induction and the case studyChapter 5: A typology for case studyChapter 6: Working through the typologyChapter 7: An example in depth: Contesting CertificationChapter 8: Conclusion: drawing from the anatomy and constructing the study