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Creative Teamwork

Developing Rapid, Site-Switching Ethnography

Pat Armstrong editor Ruth Lowndes editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:24th May '18

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Creative Team Work describes a new way of doing rapid ethnography to capture the rich complexity and contradictions of social relations. It is about the imagination, stimulation, and reflection that can come with international, interdisciplinary teams sharing the development, application, analysis, and dissemination of research. Although the book is based on a large, seven-year project studying care homes to search for promising practices and is guided by feminist political economy, the lessons we have learned are relevant for everyone undertaking empirical investigation. All research needs to consider theory -- the organization of information, ethics, and dissemination, for example. The specific techniques and approaches the authors discuss can be applied to a wide range of qualitative methods and are not exclusive to this kind of ethnography. By dissecting experiences and uniting chapters through the theme of creative, reflexive team work, the book considers issues and methods of interest to all those struggling through the research process, with or without team support.

[The book] contains promising elements of practice often neglected by traditional quantitative research. This spurs us toward higher valuing of qualitative study and rethinking the need for balance in quantitative assessment and service quality. * Zhong Xin, Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare *

ISBN: 9780190862268

Dimensions: 157mm x 236mm x 18mm

Weight: 458g

224 pages