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Research methods for adult educators in Africa / Bagele Chilisa, Julia Preece.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: African perspectives on adult learningPublication details: Hamburg, Germany : UNESCO Institute for Education ; Cape Town, South Africa : Pearson Education , 2005.Description: xvii, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9282011186
  • 9789282011188
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 374.960072   22
Partial contents:
Contexts -- Foundations of inquiry -- African perspectives -- Doing a literature review -- Getting started -- Carrying out a survey -- Work ing with survey data -- Qualitative research -- Doing a qualitative stu dy -- Combining methods -- Action research -- Feminist research -- Rese arch ethics -- Writing up and disseminating research.
Summary: This book explores and critiques existing research paradigms, presen ts African counter-arguments and examples, and proposes methodologies m ore appropriate for African contexts. The emphasis is on African realit ies, values and ways of knowing.--Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contexts -- Foundations of inquiry -- African perspectives -- Doing a literature review -- Getting started -- Carrying out a survey -- Work ing with survey data -- Qualitative research -- Doing a qualitative stu dy -- Combining methods -- Action research -- Feminist research -- Rese arch ethics -- Writing up and disseminating research.

This book explores and critiques existing research paradigms, presen ts African counter-arguments and examples, and proposes methodologies m ore appropriate for African contexts. The emphasis is on African realit ies, values and ways of knowing.--Publisher's description.

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