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Using Mixed Methods
Frameworks for an Integrated Methodology

December 2010 | 224 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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Using Mixed Methods offers an innovative approach to social and educational research. The author sets out the case for research from an holistic perspective, integrating different methods, different data and overall research strategies.

This book shows how to use an integrated methodology that meets the needs of the postgraduate researcher who wants to challenge the traditional paradigmatic view of research.

The author explores:

- The FraIM and its application to social and educational research

- The contexts of research

- Different methods of data collection

- Types of data and their natural integration within the research process

This book is for final year undergraduate and postgraduate students on social science and education courses.

David Plowright is a lecturer in the Centre for Educational Studies at the University of Hull.

 
From Mixed Methods to an Integrated Methodology
 
The FraIM: Frameworks for an Integrated Methodology
 
Case Selection: Data Source Management
 
Case Selection: Integrated Sampling
 
Data Collection: An Overview
 
Observation
 
Asking Questions
 
Analyzing Artefacts I
 
Analyzing Artefacts II
 
Data Integration
 
Warrantable Research: Using the FraIM as a Guide
 
Ethical Issues in Participant-Centred Research
 
Wider Ethical Issues and the FraIM
 
Holistic Integrationism: Philosophizing Research
 
A Few Final Words

I like the way this book is organised and written. I think it will be a real benefit to the students in the autumn as many of them are hoping to adopt a mixed method approach for their thesis. The information is relevant and it is an enjoyable read.

Dr Alison Kington
School of Education, Nottingham University
March 9, 2011
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A well written easiliy understood textbook allowing the student to ve able to understand the undeprinning concepts in relation to this third paradigm.

Mr Nigel Henderson
Health , Anglia Ruskin University
February 21, 2011
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