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Making Research Work: Promoting Child Care Policy and Practice
Iwaniec
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Description for Making Research Work: Promoting Child Care Policy and Practice
Paperback. Making Research Work demonstrates how research can be fostered and applied more effectively to child care policy and practice. Drawing on a wealth of experience, current literature and government documents, the contributors present a comprehensive discussion of key contemporary issues relating to child care research. Editor(s): Iwaniec, Dorota; Pinkerton, John. Num Pages: 302 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JHBC; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 512.
Making Research Work demonstrates how research can be fostered andapplied more effectively to child care policy and practice. Drawingon a wealth of experience, current literature and governmentdocuments, the contributors present a comprehensive discussion ofkey contemporary issues relating to child care research.Recommendations are given for recognising and responding to boththe fundamental and the specialist issues that challenge thevarious stages of the research process. Practical guidelines aregiven for
* undertaking single-case design research
* appraising current child care literature and officialstatistics
* accessing hidden or hard-to-reach populations
* dissemination
* establishing a research centre
* preparing a research proposal to submit to a funding body
* commissioning and funding research
This book s practical approach and unique focus will appeal topractitioners, researchers, policy makers and students seeking tounderstand and enhance the relationship of research to policy andpractice in the child care context.
* undertaking single-case design research
* appraising current child care literature and officialstatistics
* accessing hidden or hard-to-reach populations
* dissemination
* establishing a research centre
* preparing a research proposal to submit to a funding body
* commissioning and funding research
This book s practical approach and unique focus will appeal topractitioners, researchers, policy makers and students seeking tounderstand and enhance the relationship of research to policy andpractice in the child care context.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780471979524
SKU
V9780471979524
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Ref
99-50
About Iwaniec
Dorota Iwaniec is a Professor of Social Work and Director of the Institute of Child Care Research at Queen's University of Belfast. She has extensive clinical and research experience of working with children and their families and, in particular, in failure to thrive, neglect, emotional abuse, and behavioural and emotional problems of children and adolescents. She has been researching failure-to-thrive children for the last 25 years and has recently completed a 20-year follow-up study. Prior to coming to Queen's University she worked as a social worker, researcher, and trainer in Leicester for nearly 30 years, both at the Social Services Department and at the Department of Child Health at Leicester Royal Infirmary.
Reviews for Making Research Work: Promoting Child Care Policy and Practice
"... a solid overview of issues relevant to agency-based research in child care... provides a useful complement to the specialised research literature." (European Journal of Social Work, Volume 3/2, 2000)