Approaches to Research

Defines the nature and objectives of research and examines the tasks of the researcher. The book explores the relationship between research and the researcher, and examines the preconceptions a researcher may have before undertaking a new project. Some preliminary questions; the idiom of research; questions; the spectrum of research; imagination and research; heuristic, phenomenological and hermeneutic research; ethnography and research; forming and testing a hypothesis, building a model.