This engaging introduction to all aspects of qualitative research challenges students to consider how their research can be culturally responsive. The text introduces the foundations including theory, ethics, and reflexivity; covers practical guidance from writing proposals to data collection; and shows how the quality of research is enhanced, how data are analyzed, and how research accounts are created and disseminated. Areas vital to the health of qualitative research are addressed includin...

This book introduces major aspects of comparative and international education, giving readers a nuanced understanding of key debates and thinkers, as well as the tools necessary to conduct comparisons using secondary sources.Â

Challenges in ethnographic fieldwork are ubiquitous, yet rarely discussed. This book breaks the silence on these issues and, in revisiting ethnography through the lens of diversity, equity and inclusion, seeks to better equip researchers in conducting fieldwork that is safe for them and their research participants.

Your essential coursebook for primary initial teacher training.

This book offers an accessible and comprehensive new introduction to the subject and practise of creativity in early years education. Taylor takes a uniquely rights-based and inclusive approach to creativity, providing students with a holistic, internationally-minded overview of creativity and its place both inside and outside the classroom. Sections focus on:Defining creativity and its benefitsDifferent modes of creativityCreativity in a policy and social contextCreative pedagogy in practice...

This new edition of the landmark text Law and Society exposes readers to the dominant theoretical perspectives and sociological methods that are used to explain the interplay between law and society. This twelfth edition continues to preserve Professor Vago's voice, while Steven E. Barkan's use of chapter outlines and summaries, learning objectives, key terms, and additional readings maintains the text's accessibility for today's readers.

The book's foundational approach is brought fully up-t...

Focus on the fundamentals and help students see connections between problem types

Richard Wolfson’s Essential University Physics is a concise and progressive calculus-based physics textbook that offers clear writing, great problems, and relevant real-life applications in an affordable and streamlined text. The book teaches sound problem-solving strategies and emphasizes conceptual understanding, using features such as annotated figures and step-by-step problem-solving strategies. Realizing ...

A truly comparative introduction to the field of public sector management. This is the perfect textbook for upper undergraduate and postgraduate students to explore the evolving landscape of public administration.

There are many different forms of rationality. In current economic discourse the main focus is on instrumental rationality and optimizing, while organization scholars, behavioural economists and policy scientists focus more on bounded rationality and satisficing. The interplay with value rationality or expressive rationality is mainly discussed in philosophy and sociology, but never in an empirical way.

This book shows that not one, but three different forms of rationality (subjective, social...