Product Description: The authors explore three ways of conducting causal analysis in case studies. They draw on established practices as well as on recent innovations in case study methodology and integrate these insights into coherent approaches. They highlight the core features of each approach and provide advice on each step of the research process...read more

Product Description: This volume examines the nature, function, development and epistemological assumptions of the legal case in an interdisciplinary context. Using the question of ‘reading’ as a guiding principle, it opens up new ways of understanding case law and the doctrine of precedent by bringing the law into dialogue with the humanities...read more

Product Description: Readable and practical, this workbook provides technical assistance and concrete advice for researching, writing, and teaching with cases. The exercises and worksheets encourage practicing skills and serve as a handy and affordable workshop alternative for both novice and experienced case writers...read more

Product Description: At a time when America’s schools face many of the most difficult challenges ever, the authors of Leading for Democracy: A Case-Based Approach to Principal Preparation return the reader to an agenda for democratic leadership for schools...read more

Product Description: Using a step-by-step approach, Case Study Research for Business takes students right through the case study research process from research design and data collection using qualitative and quantitative methods, to research analysis, writing up and presenting work...read more

Product Description: Lopsided Schools introduces readers to the case method and helps the reader to use the case method to examine the scholastic challenges that critics posed from World War I to the present. Some critics have stirred up educators with threats to reduce their budgets or fire them...read more

Regular and special education administrators regularly encounter problems when attempting to work together to create and maintain successful special education programs. This updated and improved second edition seeks to overcome this obstacle by training readers in shared problem solving. Each chapter focuses on a specific issue--including school reform, fiscal and human-resource matters, school governance, identification and placement, conflict resolution, program evaluation, transportation, and discipline--followed by real-life case studies and questions designed to encourage inclusive thinking and discussion within a cohort. These real-life case studies are an ideal way to hone problem-solving skills in the safety of the classroom and prepare for real-world situations. The second edition integrates new legislation, such as IDEA 2004 and No Child Left Behind, and discusses contemporary developments including Response to Intervention (RtI). Enhanced graphics and semantic maps effectively highlight key terms and concepts. The authors have added a new section featuring concept maps and key vocabulary terms for each case study. Instructors will appreciate this invaluable tool to facilitate discussion and promote critical thinking about the elements presented in each chapter.

This step-by-step handbook guides beginning researchers through the stages of planning and implementing case studies. Starting with how to establish a rationale for conducting a systematic case study and identifying literature that informs the research effort, this indispensable resource shows students how to determine an appropriate research design and conduct informative interviews, observations and document analyses. It also describes how to derive meaning from data and how to communicate results. Finally, the authors delineate the ways to verify the results attained. Students and advisors can use these easy-to-follow steps to shape a thesis, dissertation, or independent project from conceptualization to completion. There are many concrete examples to illustrate key concepts, and questions, illustrations and activities to reinforce what has been learned.

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Product Description: Cases in Sport Marketing, simulates real-life scenarios for sport marketers as exhibition games in the preseason simulate the regular season for professional athletes. The text begins with four introductory chapters to explain the case study method and then dedicates the remaining fifteen chapters to fifteen sport marketing cases that cover a wide range of issues and sport industry segments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is about how German culture and traditions had gotten started.