Exploring the key theoretical approaches and methods of intervention with older people, this uniquely positive, practical book helps social workers to identify, understand and facilitate their service-users' wishes for wellbeing and a fulfilling older age.

A practical guide to action research, with both theoretical underpinning and a focus on real issues for researchers. Part of our brand new series on Education Research published in association with BERA.

Looking back over the grounded theory debate and highlighting what's relevant to today's researchers, this book adeptly guides students through this often intimidating area

From creating a supportive learning environment, to philosophy for children, this text helps trainee primary teachers explore a range of philosophies and strategies to develop active learning in the primary classroom.

This handbook provides a clear, critical examination of case-oriented research. It defines case-based social research as a subfield of methodology.

The SAGE Handbook of Power is the first touchstone for any student or researcher wishing to initiate themselves in the state of the art.

This text is a unique and authoritative resource consisting of 25 chapters covering a range of evaluation theories and techniques in a single, accessible volume.

An easy-to-use primer looking at an area that has frequently been neglected in standard research methods books.

Developed by an acclaimed media literacy program, this innovative guide shares strategies and lesson plans that help children ages 5-12 become empowered and responsible communicators.

This text covers the consequences of violating one of the key assumptions of Ordinary Least Squares regression (equal error variances), diagnostic tools to assess the existence of the problem of heteroskedasticity, and statistical techniques to analyse the data correctly.