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• Preface Acknowledgments About the Authors
• Part 1: What Is Action Research? 1. What Is This Book About? 2. What Is Action Research, and Where Did It Come From? 3. What Are the Key Features of Action Research I Should Remember? 4. How Is Action Research Like and Unlike Other Research? 5. How Do You Choose Your Action Research Style? 6. Why Should I Bother With Action Research? 7. How Is Action Research Cyclical? 8. How Much Time Does an Action Research Project Really Take? 9. What Is an Action Research Disposition? 10. Why Is Knowing Yourself Important While Doing Action Research? 11. Do I Need to Know About Statistics for Action Research?
• Part 2: Preparing for Action Research 12. What's the Difference Between Theory and Conceptual Frameworks in Action Research? 13. How Does Action Research Fit in Education? 14. How Does Action Research Fit in the Health Sciences? 15. How Does Action Research Fit in the Behavioral and Social Sciences? 16. How Does Action Research Fit in Business, Management, and Industry? 17. How Can a Gender Theory Approach Impact Action Research? 18. How Does Critical Race Theory Impact Action Research? 19. What Is the Difference Between Exploratory and Confirmatory Action Research? 20. What Are the Weaknesses of Action Research?
• Part 3: Social Justice in Action Research 21. How Can Action Research Be a Form of Social Justice? 22. Why Is Ethics Important in Educational Research and Action Research in Particular? 23. Do I Need to Get Some Kind of Approval for My Action Research? 24. What Is Informed Consent, and Why Is It Important? 25. Who Are the Stakeholders in Action Research, and Why Are They Important? 26. Why Is It Important to Strive for Confidentiality and Anonymity? 27. Should I Treat Children in Action Research Differently Than Adults? 28. What Does a Sample Consent Letter Look Like?
• Part 4: Research in Your Field 29. What's a Literature Review, and Do I Need One? 30. What Are the Steps in Doing an Efficient Literature Review or Synthesis? 31. Should I Read Action Research Articles? 32. How Do I Evaluate the Articles I Find? 33. How Do I Plan for My Action Research Project Before I Start?
• Part 5: Moving Your Research Forward 34. How Do I Narrow Down My Topic? 35. How Do I Make Sure My Research Is Rigorous? 36. What Do Good Action Research Questions Look Like? 37. What Is the Difference Between Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Action Research Design? 38. What Are Common Qualitative Research Designs in Action Research? 39. What Are Common Quantitative Research Designs in Action Research? 40. What Are Some Better Quantitative Action Research Designs? 41. What Are Some Common Mixed-Method Action Research Designs? 42. Can a Program Evaluation Also Be Action Research? 43. How Do I Choose My Action Research Design?
• Part 6: Research Designs and Methods 44. What Are Referents, and Which Work Best With Action Research? 45. How Do I Randomly Choose My Participants? 46. How Do I Not Randomly Choose My Participants? 47. How Do I Create Groups? 48. What Is a Case Study? 49. When and How Would I Use Interviews? 50. In General, What Are the Different Kinds of Interviews? 51. How Do I Write Interview Questions and Interpret the Answers? 52. Why Would I Use Focus Groups? 53. How Do I Conduct Focus Groups? 54. How Do Ethnographic Data Collection Methods Support Action Research? 55. Can You Tell Me What I Need to Know About Surveys? 56. How Do I Write Good Survey Questions? 57. Can I Use Direct Observations in Action Research? 58. What Are the Elements of Conducting Effective Observations? 59. How Do Interval Observations Enrich Action Research? 60. What Are Experimental Designs, and Are They Practical in Action Research? 61. What Are Quasi-experimental Designs, and Where Do They Fit In? 62. Can You Tell Me More About Action Research Designs That Use Groups? 63. Do I Collect Data Once or a Bunch of Times? 64. Are Single-Case and Single-Subject Designs Different? 65. I Wrote My Question and Chose My Design. What Kind of Data Do I Need?
• Part 7: Collecting and Analyzing Data 66. How Are Descriptive and Inferential Statistics Different? 67. What Is Visual Data Analysis? 68. What Does It Mean to Triangulate My Data? 69. What's the Big Deal About Reliability? 70. What's the Big Deal About Validity? 71. Why Do I Need to Care About Internal Validity? 72. What Kind of Threats to Internal Validity Are Common in Action Research? 73. What Are Blocking Variables? 74. What Are Ordinal, Interval, and Categorical Data Types, and Which Works Best With Action Research? 75. Does Generalizability Matter in Action Research?
• Part 8: Turning Data Into Information 76. Now I Have All These Data. What Is the Best Way to Present My Results? 77. How Do I Tell a Story With My Data? 78. What Is the Difference Between the Mean and Median, and Why Is It Important? 79. How Do Inferential Statistics Work? 80. How Can I Use Inferential Statistics in My Action Research? 81. What Is an Effect Size, and Who Is Cohen? 82. How Do I Deal With Missing Data? 83. What Are Some Good Action Research Analytic Tools I Can Use? 84. Why Is Using Data Displays an Important Step? 85. What Are the Elements of a Good Table? 86. What Are the Elements of a Good Graph? 87. How Do I Evaluate the Quality of My Action Research Project?
• Part 9: Action Research in the Bigger World 88. Now That I Am Done, How Do I Add Value to the Field? 89. What Professional Organizations Are Available to Give Me Support? 90. Are Social Media Outlets Appropriate for Sharing My Action Research? 91. Can I Formally Publish My Action Research Project? 92. What Are the Most Helpful Action Research Journals? 93. Should I Repeat (Replicate) My Action Research Project?
• Part 10: Future Steps 94. Is Action Research in Any Way Political? How Do I Navigate That? 95. How Can I Create an Inquiry-Oriented Disposition in My Everyday Life? 96. Why Develop an Action Research Community? 97. Why Would I Want or Need to Write a Report on My Action Research? 98. What Are the Key Elements of an Action Research Report? 99. I Really Liked Learning About Action Research. What Is Next? 100. What Other Books in This Series Might Interest Me, and How Do They Fit Together? Appendix: Important Action Research Literature Index.
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100 Questions (and Answers) About Action Research by Luke Duesbery and Todd Twyman identifies and answers the essential questions on the process of systematically approaching your practice from an inquiry-oriented perspective, with a focus on improving that practice. This unique text offers progressive instructors an alternative to the research status quo and serves as a reference for readers to improve their practice as advocates for those they serve. The Question and Answer format makes this an ideal supplementary text for traditional research methods courses, and also a helpful guide for practitioners in education, social work, criminal justice, health, business, and other applied disciplines.
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As well as a handy reference for those who may need a refresher on specific areas in qualitative research, this is also a great resource for those who are entirely new to the discipline and need quick answers to questions that may arise when they are taking other courses and need a little more background. It intended for graduate students preparing for comprehensive exams, researchers who need a reference, undergraduates in affiliated programs who will not be taking a primary course in qualitative research methods and anyone curious about how these tools can most effectively be used.
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• Part 1. Understanding the Research Process and Getting Started
• Part 2. Reviewing and Writing About Your Research Question
• Part 3. Introductory Ideas About Ethics
• Part 4. Research Methods: Knowing the Language, Knowing the Ideas
• Part 5. Sampling Ideas and Issues
• Part 6. Describing Data Using Descriptive Techniques
• Part 7. All About Testing and Measuring
• Part 8. Understanding Different Research Methods
• Part 9. All About Inference and Significance.
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In an increasing data driven world, it is more important than ever for students as well as professionals to better understand the process of research, from the initial asking of questions through the analysis and interpretation of data leasing to a final report, and everything in between. 100 Questions (and Answers) about Research Methods summarizes the most important questions that lie in those inbetween spaces that one could ask about research methods while providing an answer as well. This is a short book and intended for those individuals who need a refresher as to what the important topics are within this area of study as well as for those who are entirely new to the discipline and need a resource as to what the key questions are that one might ask. It's for graduate students preparing for comprehensive exams, researchers who need a reference, undergraduates in affiliated programs who will not be taking a primary course in research methods and anyone curious about how these tools can most effectively be used.
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• Part 1. Understanding the Research Process and Getting Started
• Part 2. Reviewing and Writing About Your Research Question
• Part 3. Introductory Ideas About Ethics
• Part 4. Research Methods: Knowing the Language, Knowing the Ideas
• Part 5. Sampling Ideas and Issues
• Part 6. Describing Data Using Descriptive Techniques
• Part 7. All About Testing and Measuring
• Part 8. Understanding Different Research Methods
• Part 9. All About Inference and Significance.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

In an increasing data driven world, it is more important than ever for students as well as professionals to better understand the process of research, from the initial asking of questions through the analysis and interpretation of data leasing to a final report, and everything in between. 100 Questions (and Answers) about Research Methods summarizes the most important questions that lie in those inbetween spaces that one could ask about research methods while providing an answer as well. This is a short book and intended for those individuals who need a refresher as to what the important topics are within this area of study as well as for those who are entirely new to the discipline and need a resource as to what the key questions are that one might ask. It's for graduate students preparing for comprehensive exams, researchers who need a reference, undergraduates in affiliated programs who will not be taking a primary course in research methods and anyone curious about how these tools can most effectively be used.
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• Engagements et paradigmes
• Que devient la théorie? Sciences humaines, politique, philosophie (1970-2010) : réflexions et propositions
• À quelles conditions une pensée peut-elle être critique?
• Économie versus Sociologie. Du moment marxiste au dialogue des disciplines (1970-2010) : le cas de Nanterre
• Disciplines et indisciplines
• L'histoire et les SHS (1970-2010) : des beaux jours de l'impérialisme aux incertitudes de l'interdisciplinarité
• Le terrain transitionnellement: une transdisciplinarité entre géographie, art et psychanalyse
• Transformations et remises en cause des disciplines
• L'évolution des théories économiques dominantes à partir des années 1970 : une approche à partir de la place que la monnaie y tient
• L'évolution de la théorie du droit (1970-2010)
• Le tournant cognitif et les sciences du langage
• De l'anthropologie clinique, ou de la sagesse de l'indiscipline
• Les faces-à-faces transatlantiques
• Le genre en histoire: une question de méthode
• Les Cultural Studies (1970-2010)
• Une nouvelle donne en histoire de l'art (1970-2010)
• Le postcolonialisme (1980-2010)
• Les sciences sociales, le numérique et l'Internet
• Les sciences politiques au coeur du maelstrom
• Diversité culturelle et mondialisation : uniformisation ou production de la différence?
• Le curseur culture/nature aujourd'hui
• Le déterminisme et le libre arbitre aujourd'hui
• Écologie, géographies (physique et humaine) : entrelacements conceptuels et irritations de surface
• Nature et culture en anthropologie
• Le naturalisme est-il l'horizon scientifique des sciences sociales ?
• Perspectives académiques d'aujourd'hui
• Les sciences humaines et sociales : un paysage en recomposition
• Le contexte européen de la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales
• Histoire et histoires : par-delà les nations, comparaisons et frontières
• Approches transdisciplinaires
• Ontologie et sciences sociales
• L'apport de l'histoire des sciences de l'Homme à la compréhension des sciences humaines et sociales
• Quel type d'unité pour les sciences humaines et sociales ?
• Les sciences humaines et sociales, un regard rétrospectif.

"A l'occasion des quarante ans de la création de l'université de Nanterre, un colloque international a fait le point sur les transformations des sciences humaines et sociales de 1970 à nos jours. Ce colloque nécessairement inter- voire transdisciplinaire a été l'occasion de rappeler que, malgré la perte d'audience des SHS, les évolutions des connaissances qui redéfinissent le monde ont de grandes conséquences sur l'engagement politique et la formation pédagogique et citoyenne. Les participants à ce colloque ont également pu constater que les grands paradigmes du passé marxisme, structuralisme, fonctionnalisme se sont enrichis d'autres manières de questionner le monde, en particulier les gender, subaltern et postcolonial studies, et des sciences de la cognition, en plein développement grâce aux progrès des techniques biomédicales. Si les SHS restent indispensables pour l'analyse des relations entre société et individu d'une part, et biologie et culture de l'autre, la prise en compte de certains aspects des sciences de la nature semble ujourd'hui néanmoins nécessaire pour mieux redéfinir l'humain. Enfin, les contributions de ce volume montrent qu'il est encore possible de poursuivre une réflexion épistémologique synthétique permettant de mieux redéfinir le domaine d'analyse des SHS."--P. [4] of cover.

• First pre-election study: Sept. 23, 1972-Oct. 11, 1972
• Second pre-election study: Oct. 20, 1972-Nov. 6, 1972
• Post-election study: Dec. 9, 1972-Dec. 30, 1972.