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Conducting Research in a Changing & Challenging World (Hardcover)
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Conducting Research in a Changing & Challenging World (Hardcover)
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This book is unique in the sense that it presents a broad and
dynamic research narrative, which is filled with phenomena, issues
and challenges facing researchers in various disciplines, cultural
contexts, linguistic and ethical discourses. The content of the
book is addressing three overarching research issues: What are the
diverse challenges, opportunities, and limitations different
cohorts of individuals face? Why and how do these cohorts respond
to these challenges, opportunities, and limitations? How, where,
when, and why do researchers interact with these challenges and
what have they learned from their investigations? One of the
strengths of this edited book is, each of the contributors has
explored these three issues from a somewhat unique perspective, but
collectively they provide a rich discourse and milieu around the
purpose of research and how and why it is conducted and interpreted
within a contemporary multimodal context. Across all the chapters
the contributions have focused on the process of researching and as
a consequence there are two recurring discourses identified. The
first discourse relates to conducting the research and involves
topics, such as methodology, ethics, research populations,
assessment, data, and linguistic complexity. The second discourse
is around the researchers, because they are the "lens" through
which their research is conceived, guided, articulated, and
interpreted. For too long now, too many books about research,
particularly social science related research, have been locked into
a narrow discourse around the benefits of either qualitative or
quantitative research methods. While this topic is explored in this
text, it is not dominated by this one, rather artificial dichotomy.
What is exciting about the book is its diversity and the range of
dichotomies that are explored and the range of contexts and issues
that are reviewed. There is a strong narrative quality throughout
the chapters where the voice of the researchers and their purpose
is amplified. The book is of special interest to
research-orientated students as well as to those who want to learn
more about conducting research in a challenging discourse of
diverse paradigms.
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