Understanding research methods textbooks: pedagogy, production and practice
Understanding research methods textbooks: pedagogy, production and practice
Social science research methods textbooks are a resilient and highly cited area of academic publishing. However, little attention has been given to the pedagogies these resources enact. We use research by the authors to examine leading social science research methods textbooks. In addition, Patrick draws on 11 years of experience as a research methods publisher at SAGE, observing and participating in the ongoing process of developing methods textbooks. By reflecting on publishing practice and combining this with textual research, we identify the explicit pedagogies such texts embody and draw on, and examine how textbooks seek to foster and support methods learning.
research methods pedagogy, textbook pedagogy
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Brindle, Patrick
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Lewthwaite, Sarah
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Brindle, Patrick
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Lewthwaite, Sarah
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Brindle, Patrick and Lewthwaite, Sarah
(2023)
Understanding research methods textbooks: pedagogy, production and practice.
In,
Nind, Melanie
(ed.)
Handbook of Teaching and Learning Social Research Methods.
London.
Edward Elgar Publishing, .
(doi:10.4337/9781800884274.00037).
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Social science research methods textbooks are a resilient and highly cited area of academic publishing. However, little attention has been given to the pedagogies these resources enact. We use research by the authors to examine leading social science research methods textbooks. In addition, Patrick draws on 11 years of experience as a research methods publisher at SAGE, observing and participating in the ongoing process of developing methods textbooks. By reflecting on publishing practice and combining this with textual research, we identify the explicit pedagogies such texts embody and draw on, and examine how textbooks seek to foster and support methods learning.
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Accepted/In Press date: 2023
e-pub ahead of print date: 19 September 2023
Keywords:
research methods pedagogy, textbook pedagogy
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/485730
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Patrick Brindle
Editor:
Melanie Nind
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