Using Mixed Methods
Frameworks for an Integrated Methodology
- David Plowright - University of Hull, UK
This book shows how to use an integrated methodology that meets the needs of the postgraduate researcher who wants to challenge the traditional paradigmatic view of research.
The author explores:
- The FraIM and its application to social and educational research
- The contexts of research
- Different methods of data collection
- Types of data and their natural integration within the research process
This book is for final year undergraduate and postgraduate students on social science and education courses.
David Plowright is a lecturer in the Centre for Educational Studies at the University of Hull.
an excellent text for those considering mixed methods as a methodology
Address all relevant issues. Language used at a level that students would find easy to follow and understand as fot most students English is not their mother tongue.
This book provides a novel yet pragmatic approach to mixed methods and will be of great value to researchers embarking on mixed methods. It is more suitable for postgraduate studies than undergraduate and the former are more likely to find the FRaIM a useful tool for their projects.
Very useful for our doctoral candidates who want to combine `hard' quantitative approaches with the `soft' business management aspects of their professional practices.
I like the way this book is organised and written. I think it will be a real benefit to the students in the autumn as many of them are hoping to adopt a mixed method approach for their thesis. The information is relevant and it is an enjoyable read.
A well written easiliy understood textbook allowing the student to ve able to understand the undeprinning concepts in relation to this third paradigm.
