Author: Jenny Kitzinger
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761955689
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book critically examines the potential of, and suggests ways forward in, harnessing a versatile and powerful method of research - focus groups. The book challenges some of the emerging orthodoxies and presents accessible, insightful and reflective discussions about the issues around focus group work. The contributors, an impressive group of experienced researchers from a range of disciplines and traditions, discuss different ways of designing, conducting and analyzing focus group research. They examine sampling strategies; the implications of combining focus groups with other methods; accessing views of `minority' groups; their contribution to participatory or feminist research; use of software packages; discourse anal
Developing Focus Group Research
Author: Jenny Kitzinger
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761955689
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book critically examines the potential of, and suggests ways forward in, harnessing a versatile and powerful method of research - focus groups. The book challenges some of the emerging orthodoxies and presents accessible, insightful and reflective discussions about the issues around focus group work. The contributors, an impressive group of experienced researchers from a range of disciplines and traditions, discuss different ways of designing, conducting and analyzing focus group research. They examine sampling strategies; the implications of combining focus groups with other methods; accessing views of `minority' groups; their contribution to participatory or feminist research; use of software packages; discourse anal
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761955689
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book critically examines the potential of, and suggests ways forward in, harnessing a versatile and powerful method of research - focus groups. The book challenges some of the emerging orthodoxies and presents accessible, insightful and reflective discussions about the issues around focus group work. The contributors, an impressive group of experienced researchers from a range of disciplines and traditions, discuss different ways of designing, conducting and analyzing focus group research. They examine sampling strategies; the implications of combining focus groups with other methods; accessing views of `minority' groups; their contribution to participatory or feminist research; use of software packages; discourse anal
Discussion and Group Methods
Author: Ernest G. Bormann
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This book draws most of the theoretical formulations from small-group research conducted in speech communications, social psychology, industrial and educational psychology, psychiatry, and sociology.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This book draws most of the theoretical formulations from small-group research conducted in speech communications, social psychology, industrial and educational psychology, psychiatry, and sociology.
Advanced Focus Group Research
Author: Edward F. Fern
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761912491
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Broad and international in scope, Advanced Focus Group Research introduces a conceptual framework that can help researchers make informed decisions about how to plan and implement a focus group research project.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761912491
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Broad and international in scope, Advanced Focus Group Research introduces a conceptual framework that can help researchers make informed decisions about how to plan and implement a focus group research project.
Focus Group Discussions
Author: Monique M. Hennink
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199383960
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The Understanding Research series focuses on the process of writing up social research. The series is broken down into three categories: Understanding Statistics, Understanding Measurement, and Understanding Qualitative Research. The books provide researchers with guides to understanding, writing, and evaluating social research. Each volume demonstrates how research should be represented, including how to write up the methodology as well as the research findings. Each volume also reviews how to appropriately evaluate published research. Focus Group Discussions addresses the challenges associated with conducting and writing focus group research. It provides detailed guidance on the practical and theoretical considerations in conducting focus group discussions including: designing the discussion guide, recruiting participants, training a field team, moderating techniques and ethical considerations. Monique Hennink describes how a methodology section is read and evaluated by others, such as journal reviewers or thesis advisors. She provides readers with guidance on specific aspects of presenting research findings, such structuring narrative accounts, developing an argument, using quotations, reporting focus group interaction, visual presentation formats, and strategies for grounding study results. She describes the challenges in assessing focus groups and details practical strategies for assessing scientific rigor. The book includes case study examples of field research across a range of disciplines and international contexts. Hennink concludes the volume with an overview of current debates relating to the evaluation of qualitative research, suggesting ways to critique the research design, methodology and results of focus group research.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199383960
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The Understanding Research series focuses on the process of writing up social research. The series is broken down into three categories: Understanding Statistics, Understanding Measurement, and Understanding Qualitative Research. The books provide researchers with guides to understanding, writing, and evaluating social research. Each volume demonstrates how research should be represented, including how to write up the methodology as well as the research findings. Each volume also reviews how to appropriately evaluate published research. Focus Group Discussions addresses the challenges associated with conducting and writing focus group research. It provides detailed guidance on the practical and theoretical considerations in conducting focus group discussions including: designing the discussion guide, recruiting participants, training a field team, moderating techniques and ethical considerations. Monique Hennink describes how a methodology section is read and evaluated by others, such as journal reviewers or thesis advisors. She provides readers with guidance on specific aspects of presenting research findings, such structuring narrative accounts, developing an argument, using quotations, reporting focus group interaction, visual presentation formats, and strategies for grounding study results. She describes the challenges in assessing focus groups and details practical strategies for assessing scientific rigor. The book includes case study examples of field research across a range of disciplines and international contexts. Hennink concludes the volume with an overview of current debates relating to the evaluation of qualitative research, suggesting ways to critique the research design, methodology and results of focus group research.
Discussion as a Way of Teaching
Author: Stephen Brookfield
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN: 033520161X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This book is written for all university and college teachers interested in experimenting with discussion methods in their classrooms. Discussion as a Way of Teaching is a book full of ideas, techniques, and usable suggestions on: * How to prepare students and teachers to participate in discussion * How to get discussions started * How to keep discussions going * How to ensure that teachers' and students' voices are kept in some sort of balance It considers the influence of factors of race, class and gender on discussion groups and argues that teachers need to intervene to prevent patterns of inequity present in the wider society automatically reproducing themselves inside the discussion-based classroom. It also grounds the evaluation of discussions in the multiple subjectivities of students' perceptions. An invaluable and helpful resource for university and college teachers who use, or are thinking of using, discussion approaches.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN: 033520161X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This book is written for all university and college teachers interested in experimenting with discussion methods in their classrooms. Discussion as a Way of Teaching is a book full of ideas, techniques, and usable suggestions on: * How to prepare students and teachers to participate in discussion * How to get discussions started * How to keep discussions going * How to ensure that teachers' and students' voices are kept in some sort of balance It considers the influence of factors of race, class and gender on discussion groups and argues that teachers need to intervene to prevent patterns of inequity present in the wider society automatically reproducing themselves inside the discussion-based classroom. It also grounds the evaluation of discussions in the multiple subjectivities of students' perceptions. An invaluable and helpful resource for university and college teachers who use, or are thinking of using, discussion approaches.
Moderating Focus Groups
Author: Richard A. Krueger
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761908210
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Volume 4 of this series is indispensable for all wishing to improve their focus group moderating skills. This book provides an overview of critical skills needed by moderators, the skills moderators use, & strategies for handling difficult situations.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761908210
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Volume 4 of this series is indispensable for all wishing to improve their focus group moderating skills. This book provides an overview of critical skills needed by moderators, the skills moderators use, & strategies for handling difficult situations.
Games (& Other Stuff) for Group
Author: Chris Cavert
Publisher: Wood 'N' Barnes Publishing
ISBN: 9781885473394
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
This book contains activities that act as catalyst for discussions. Some of the topics include expressing emotions, learning names, effects of rumors, gender issues, trust, honor, following directions, creative thinking, frustration, and communication.
Publisher: Wood 'N' Barnes Publishing
ISBN: 9781885473394
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
This book contains activities that act as catalyst for discussions. Some of the topics include expressing emotions, learning names, effects of rumors, gender issues, trust, honor, following directions, creative thinking, frustration, and communication.
Group Discussion and Its Techniques
Author: United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adult education
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adult education
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Qualitative Analysis and Documentary Method
Author: Ralf Bohnsack
Publisher: Barbara Budrich
ISBN: 3866492367
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
You need to work with qualitative methods, especially the Documentary Method? This is your book: The first systematic introduction related to the application of the Documentary Method on group discussions, interviews, films and pictures. Since the book is based on a German- Brazilian cooperation, it also provides an overview of the state of the art in Germany and Brazil with regards to Educational Science. From the contents: · Qualitative Methods in Educational Science · The Documentary Method and the Interpretation of Group Discussions · The Documentary Method and the Interpretation of Interviews · The Documentary Method and the Interpretation of Pictures and Videos
Publisher: Barbara Budrich
ISBN: 3866492367
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
You need to work with qualitative methods, especially the Documentary Method? This is your book: The first systematic introduction related to the application of the Documentary Method on group discussions, interviews, films and pictures. Since the book is based on a German- Brazilian cooperation, it also provides an overview of the state of the art in Germany and Brazil with regards to Educational Science. From the contents: · Qualitative Methods in Educational Science · The Documentary Method and the Interpretation of Group Discussions · The Documentary Method and the Interpretation of Interviews · The Documentary Method and the Interpretation of Pictures and Videos
Learning Thru Discussion
Author: W. Fawcett Hill
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
An innovational teaching method designed to increase the understanding and retention of all types of material, with emphasis on authority in the structure and presentation of the subject materials. Specific recommendations are included to facilitate the correlation of the material being discussed with relevant details of group members' experience.
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
An innovational teaching method designed to increase the understanding and retention of all types of material, with emphasis on authority in the structure and presentation of the subject materials. Specific recommendations are included to facilitate the correlation of the material being discussed with relevant details of group members' experience.