Revised edition of the author's A guide to qualitative field research, 2007.

This book leads the new researcher into the field by explaining the core concepts through theory, research and applied examples. This Fourth Edition now provides boxes that include real-world examples; new content on using social media, blogs, and doing research online; and more international examples.

This new text provides students with the background and the process of statistical analysis along with the nuts and bolts tools for applying specific statistical tools to data from research studies.

This classic text successfully provides a comprehensive overview of methods to prepare students to carry out, report, and evaluate research on human development, with a focus on the whole lifespan.

This book unpacks what it means to effectively lead an intelligent, responsive school that is a learning environment for all.

Cost effective, interdisciplinary PBL is within reach with this inspiring guide to +1Pedagogy (TM)! Integrate college and career readiness and technology. This book includes sample units, templates.

This book seeks to guide the student through the practical issues of doing conversation analysis, while providing the theoretical foundation for making research decisions. Each chapter highlights the challenges, debates, and important questions that arise in discursive research projects.

Brings together over 90 recent readings on gender, sexuality, and intimate relationships from Contexts, the award-winning magazine published by the American Sociological Association.

Focused on exploring human experience from an integrative perspective, Heuristic Inquiry: Researching Human Experience Holistically presents heuristic inquiry as a unique phenomenologically aligned, experiential, and relational approach to qualitative research that is also rigorous and evidence based. The author describes a distinguishing perspective of this research that treats participants not as subjects of research but rather as co-researchers in an exploratory process marked by genuinene...

This book will help educators design authentic learning experiences that allow students to practice their 21st Century communication skills.