Table of Contents

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 García, 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

About the Author

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.