Case Study Methods in Education

Gary Thomas is a professor of education at the University of Birmingham. His teaching and research have focused on inclusion, special education and research methodology in education, with a particular focus on case study. He has co-edited the International Journal of Research and Method in Education and the British Educational Research Journal and is currently executive editor of Educational Review.

VOLUME ONE: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES AROUND THE USE OF CASE STUDIES IN SOCIAL SCIENCE Do Physicists Use Case Studies? Thoughts on Public Administration Research - Mary Timney Bailey Cases, Causes, Conjunctures, Stories, Imagery - Howard Becker Informing Generality and Explaining Uniqueness - York Bradshaw and Michael Wallace The Place of Case Studies in Comparative Research The Narrative Construction of Reality - Jerome Bruner Observation, Context and Sequence in the Study of Politics - Richard Fenno Five Misunderstandings about Case Study Research - Bent Flyvbjerg The Issue of Quality in Qualitative Research - Martyn Hammersley Introduction - Martyn Hammersley and Roger Gomm Case Studies as Natural Experiments - Allen Lee Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method - Arend Lijphart 'Case Study' in American Methodological Thought - Jennifer Platt Introduction - Charles Ragin Cases of 'What Is a case?' How Narratives Explain - Paul Roth Persuasion with Case Studies - Nicolaj Siggelkow A Typology for the Case Study in Social Science Following a Review of Definition, Discourse and Structure - Gary Thomas Doing Case Study - Gary Thomas Abduction not Induction; Phronesis not Theory Redefining Case Study - Rob Van Wynsberghe and Samia Khan Case Studies - Michel Wieviorka History or Sociology? VOLUME TWO: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES AROUND THE USE OF CASE STUDIES IN EDUCATION Bread and Dreams or Bread and Circuses? A Critique of 'Case Study' Research in Education - Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont Educational Research and Inter-Textual Forms of (Re) Presentation - Carl Bagley and Mary Beth Cancienne The Case for Dancing the Data Pedagogic Research - Michael Bassey On the Relative Merits of Search for Generalization and Study of Single Events Pedagogic Research into Singularities - Michael Bassey Case Studies, Probes and Curriculum Innovations Making the Case - David Garvin Professional Education for the World of Practice The Imagination of the Case and the Invention of the Study - Stephen Kemmis This Is Your Father's Paradigm - Patti Lather Government Intrusion and the Case of Qualitative Research in Education Case Study and the Social Philosophy of Educational Research - Barry MacDonald and Rob Walker In Search of Subjectivity - One's Own - Alan Peshkin Ethics of Case Study in Educational Research and Evaluation - Helen Simons The Paradox of Case Study - Helen Simons An Evolving Logic of Participant Observation, Educational Ethnography and Other Case Studies - Louis Smith The Case Study Method in Social Inquiry - Robert Stake Case Study and Case Records - Lawrence Stenhouse Towards a Contemporary History of Education The Study of Samples and the Study of Cases - Lawrence Stenhouse The Case - Gary Thomas Generalization and Theory in Case Study Three Good Reasons for not Doing Case Studies in Curriculum Research - Rob Walker Case Study, Case Records and Multimedia - Rob Walker VOLUME THREE: THE CASE STUDY IN PRACTICE - GENERAL ISSUES AND SPECIFIC EXAMPLES After Cultural Competency - Peter Benson and Kedron Thomas Research Practice and Moral Experience in the Study of Brand Pirates and Tobacco Farmers The Last People Alive - J. Diamond Pitcairn and Henderson Islands Theory -Building from Cases - Kathleen Eisenhardt and Melissa Graebner Opportunities and Challenges Extract from Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud Deep Play - Clifford Geertz Notes on the Balinese Cockfight Phase One - A.L. George and A. Bennett Designing Case Study Research What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good for? - John Gerring A Case for Case Studies in Social Work Research - Jane Gilgun First Developments of the Young Savage of Aveyron - J.M.G. Itard From Interview to Story - Christine Elizabeth Kiesinger Writing Abbie's Life Case and Situation Analysis - J.Clyde Mitchell The First Night - J. Patrick Participatory Photography - Esther Prins A Tool for Empowerment or Surveillance? Embodiment, Academics and the Audit Culture - Andrew Sparkes A Story Seeking Consideration What Is a Case Study? - Gary Thomas Extract from 'The Polish Peasant in Europe and America' - W.I. Thomas and F. Znaniecki VOLUME FOUR: EXAMPLES OF CASE STUDIES IN EDUCATION Adolescents, Social Life and School Life - S.J. Ball 'Five on the First of December!' - Liz Brooker What Can We Learn from Case Studies of Early Childhood Literacy? The Crux of Leadership - Hugh Busher Shaping School Culture by Contesting the Policy Contexts and Practices of Teaching and Learning Working with Teaching Assistants - Hilary Cremin, Gary Thomas and Karen Vincett Three Models Evaluated Achievement of Black Caribbean Pupils - Feyisa Demie Good Practice in Lambeth Schools An Unconventional Setting for a Conventional Occasion - Jon Driessen and Julene Newland Pyfer A Case Study of an Experimental Adult Education Program Teaching as Research - Eleanor Duckworth The Puzzle of Inclusion - Philip Ferguson A Case Study of Autistic Students in the Life of One High School 'A Few of the Brightest, Cleanest Mexican Children' - David Garcia, Tara Yosso and Frank Barajas School Segregation as a Form of Mundane Racism in Oxnard, California, 1900-1940 Julie's Approach - S. Hart et al Access, Security and Success A Dialogic Inquiry Approach to Working with Teachers in Developing Classroom Dialogue - Sara Hennessy, Paul Warwick and Neil Mercer Theory in Initial Teacher Education - Chris Holligan Students' Perspectives on Its Utility - a Case Study Lessons and Dilemmas Derived from the Literacy Instruction of Two Latina/o Teachers - Robert Jimenez and Russell Gersten Understanding Reading Disability - Peter Johnston A Case Study Approach The Making of the Inclusive School - G. Thomas, D. Walker and J. Webb Extract from Learning to Labour - P. Willis Learning to Laugh - Travis Wright A Portrait of Risk and Resilience in Early Childhood The School and Community - H.F. Wolcott