Evaluative Research Methods: Managing the Complexities of Judgment in the Field - Couverture souple

Livre 9 sur 13: Evaluation and Society

Kushner, Saville

 
9781681236889: Evaluative Research Methods: Managing the Complexities of Judgment in the Field
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ISBN 10 : 1681236885 ISBN 13 : 9781681236889
Editeur : Information Age Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

How do research students and their supervisors respond in a world of 'fake news', the destabilisation of public institutions and the rise of populism? The very foundations of our liberal democracies seem to be under threat, and this implicates social inquiry. Postgraduate research remains one of the few information spaces which are still free of politicisation and committed to validation. This book focuses on democracy in inquiry, and on the role of inquiry in a democracy how research helps us to deliberate over what counts as of public value. It is a research methods book, but methods shaped by political and ethical purposes, and by the challenge of making judgements about what, in the public sphere, is worthy. We may be looking at a police training program, the siting of a clean energy project, a new school curriculum, maternal health program or an environmental adaptation project in each case and in others like them we have to negotiate perspectives and claims, forge and justify a consensus, support competing stakeholders with the best information and analyses possible. And we have to make our work defensible undeniable in the forum of public debate and exchange, examination and accountability. This book, full of examples from contemporary research projects, is designed to help navigate our way through the complexities of social research which focuses on judgements about public action. The book was written with research students and includes examples of their work. It recognises that supervisors often struggle as much as students in meeting the challenges of inquiry that involves some element of evaluative judgement inquiry that potentially carries consequences. Where there are no quick-and-ready recipes, check-lists or theoretical frameworks where we confront the particularities of the context in which the research takes place, we are all forced back onto good methodological thinking, and this is the pedagogical framing of the book.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

How do research students and their supervisors respond in a world of 'fake news', the destabilisation of public institutions and the rise of populism? The very foundations of our liberal democracies seem to be under threat, and this implicates social inquiry. Postgraduate research remains one of the few information spaces which are still free of politicisation and committed to validation. This book focuses on democracy in inquiry, and on the role of inquiry in a democracy how research helps us to deliberate over what counts as of public value. It is a research methods book, but methods shaped by political and ethical purposes, and by the challenge of making judgements about what, in the public sphere, is worthy. We may be looking at a police training program, the siting of a clean energy project, a new school curriculum, maternal health program or an environmental adaptation project in each case and in others like them we have to negotiate perspectives and claims, forge and justify a consensus, support competing stakeholders with the best information and analyses possible. And we have to make our work defensible undeniable in the forum of public debate and exchange, examination and accountability. This book, full of examples from contemporary research projects, is designed to help navigate our way through the complexities of social research which focuses on judgements about public action. The book was written with research students and includes examples of their work. It recognises that supervisors often struggle as much as students in meeting the challenges of inquiry that involves some element of evaluative judgement inquiry that potentially carries consequences. Where there are no quick-and-ready recipes, check-lists or theoretical frameworks where we confront the particularities of the context in which the research takes place, we are all forced back onto good methodological thinking, and this is the pedagogical framing of the book.

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Éditeur
Information Age Publishing
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1681236885
ISBN 13 
9781681236889
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
296
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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ISBN 10 :  1681236893 ISBN 13 :  9781681236896
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