How to do your Case Study: A Guide for Students and Researchers - Softcover

Thomas, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857025635 ISBN 13: 9780857025630

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

Case Study is one of the most widely applied methods of research and instruction in use today. Cases are used to frame research, aid teaching and help learning the world over. Yet, despite being so widely used, there remains a great deal of uncertainty about what constitutes case study research and how case studies should be designed and carried out.

In this lucid, accessible and often witty new text, Gary Thomas introduces students and researchers to the basics of case study research. Using a wide range of real-life examples, this  book sets how best to design and carry out case studies in the social sciences and humanities for those new to the method. How to do your case study: a guide for students and researchers deals with the core issues and methods that anyone new to case study will need to understand:

• What is a case study?
• When and why should case study methods be used?
• How are case studies designed?
• What methods can be used?
• How do we analyze and make sense of our data?
• How do we write up and write about our case?

How to do your Case Study will be essential reading for any student or researcher in the Social Sciences, Health Sciences, in Business Studies, in Education and the Humanities.

About this title

About the Author

Being of a nervous disposition as a child, Gary Thomas failed to write anything on his 11-plus examination paper, which inaction took him to secondary modern school.

He eventually became a teacher, then an educational psychologist, then a professor of education at the University of Birmingham, where his teaching, research and writing have focused on inclusive education and the methods used in social science research. He has led a wide range of research projects and has received research funding from the AHRC, the ESRC, the Nuffield Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, the Department for Education, charities such as Barnardo’s and the Cadmean Trust, local authorities and a range of other organisations. He has written or edited 30 books, lots of boring academic articles, and quite interesting essays on the state of education in the national press. He was the editor of journals such as the British Educational Research Journal and Educational Review.

He has two grown-up daughters, one daughter at school, and two grandchildren. He likes, in alphabetical order, birds, chess, cycling, dogs, his family, gardening, reading and writing.

Despite supporting Aston Villa football club, he maintains an optimistic outlook on life.

 

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857025635
• ISBN 13: 9780857025630
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248