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  • Formāts: Hardback, 248 pages, height x width: 242x170 mm, weight: 600 g
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  • ISBN-10: 1473930294
  • ISBN-13: 9781473930292
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Covering theoretical foundations and practical applications, this book introduces the reader to PCP in its entirety and will be instrumental in helping them to do unbiased, rich interpretative, constructivist research

This book provides a comprehensive overview of personal construct psychology (PCP) that will help researchers understand the why's, what's and how's of conducting a rigorous constructivist research project.

From the theoretical underpinnings of constructivist approaches to the practical values of these techniques, these three expert authors explain how to conduct interpretative, constructivist research from inception to completion. Key topics include:

  • Understanding research philosophies and paradigms
  • Constructing and exploring personal realities
  • Establishing effective research procedures
  • Evaluating grids, mapping, narrative and other research methods
  • Managing the practicalities of fieldwork
  • Analysing and presenting data

With activities and procedural examples from a wide range of disciplines woven throughout the text and two special chapters featuring in-depth case studies from a variety of constructivist researchers, this book helps readers grasp the tools, designs, and opportunities of interpretative research.

An essential companion for both researchers and practitioners looking to understand people’s values, attitudes, beliefs, perceptions, or motivations!   



Covering theoretical foundations and practical applications, this book introduces the reader to PCP in its entirety and will be instrumental in helping them to do unbiased, rich interpretative, constructivist research

Recenzijas

This book is a welcome guide to an empirically grounded understanding of the constructivist approach. With its focus on research practice in a multitude of fields, it is of great value both for the budding researcher and the seasoned professional.  -- Jörn Scheer An excellent overview of the issues facing the constructivist researcher. Graduate students will value its helpful handling of the paradigm debate, while the newcomer to constructivist research will receive a solid grounding in constructivist methods that goes beyond the basic grid interview technique. -- Devi Jankowicz This book illustrates a perfect connection, through the personal constructs theory, between an epistemological perspective, constructivism, and its possible methods. It is a useful and complete guide for researchers who are interested in exploring both how people construe their world and their personal perspectives as researchers themselves. -- Massimo Giliberto Theoretically rich and provocative of deep reflection in the field to which it is primarily addressed, but equally in any field of enquiry and practice where one works with human beings to enhance their optimal functioning.  Yet, eminently practical and with Activities that cannot but challenge habitual modes of meaning-making. -- Bill Warren

List of figures and boxes
xi
About the authors xv
Acknowledgements xvii
Part I Making decisions based on philosophy, theory and project purpose
1(50)
1 Introduction and orientation to constructivist research
3(10)
Preamble
3(1)
What this book is about
3(2)
Who should read this book
5(2)
How this book can help you
7(2)
How to use this book
9(2)
Suggested further reading
11(2)
2 Understanding the nature of constructivist approaches
13(12)
Key points
13(1)
Introduction
13(1)
A Constructed Reality
14(3)
How does this fit with your worldview?
17(3)
Personal construct psychology
20(2)
Summary
22(1)
Suggested further reading
23(2)
3 Linking philosophy and theory to research purpose
25(14)
Key points
25(1)
Introduction
25(1)
The nature of phenomena
26(1)
Research philosophy and paradigm
27(6)
Methodology
33(5)
Suggested further reading
38(1)
4 Constructing personal realities
39(12)
Key points
39(1)
Introduction
39(1)
Origins and orientations
39(3)
Formal tenets and our interpretations in the field of research
42(8)
Summary
50(1)
Suggested further reading
50(1)
Part II Practicalities of engaging in constructivist research
51(104)
5 Exploring personal realities
53(16)
Key points
53(1)
Introduction
53(1)
A Conversational Approach
54(2)
Working through a flexible structure
56(6)
Remaining flexible but with more structure
62(5)
Summary
67(1)
Suggested further reading
67(2)
6 Setting the climate for effective research encounters
69(10)
Key points
69(1)
Introduction
69(1)
Earning and giving respect --- the foundation for all constructivist research
70(1)
Ethics and good manners
70(2)
From first contact
72(1)
Rapport --- and the key skill of listening
73(1)
Defining a purpose and negotiating a contract
74(1)
Language --- putting jargon in its place
75(1)
Sensitive recording of data
76(1)
Summary
77(1)
Suggested further reading
78(1)
7 An evaluation of a range of potential research techniques
79(24)
Key points
79(1)
Introduction: Adopting constructivist methods
79(2)
Conducting a repertory grid study
81(7)
Using mapping methods
88(6)
Using storytelling or narrative methods
94(7)
Summary
101(1)
Suggested further reading
102(1)
8 An evaluation of a range of potential research designs
103(16)
Key points
103(1)
Introduction
103(1)
The process of planning
104(1)
General research designs and processes
105(7)
Processes that can be incorporated within designs
112(5)
Advantages and limitations --- a balancing act
117(1)
Summary
118(1)
Suggested further reading
118(1)
9 Realities and practicalities in managing fieldwork
119(12)
Key points
119(1)
Introduction
119(1)
In the beginning
120(1)
Refining the focus
121(1)
What the topic really is
122(1)
Building relationships
123(1)
Engaging participants
124(3)
Collecting the data
127(3)
Summary
130(1)
Suggested further reading
130(1)
10 Data analysis, meaning interpretation and management/presentation issues
131(24)
Key points
131(1)
Introduction
132(1)
Repertory grid analysis
132(11)
Analysing elicited texts
143(7)
Managing the wealth of data
150(1)
Presenting your data
151(2)
Summary
153(1)
Suggested further reading
153(2)
Part III How others have used PCP --- sample research cases
155(46)
11 Cases using different designs
157(30)
Introduction
157(1)
Construing language assessment: the teacher as meaning-maker
158(2)
Using pictures of paintings as aids to communication with people who have learning disabilities
160(2)
Knowledge transfer of the idea of quality within General Motors from western Europe to Poland
162(1)
What really constitutes authentic leadership? Using the repertory grid to unearth and explore leaders' implicit beliefs and attributions
163(2)
Using critical incident charting for reflecting on experience
165(3)
Constructs of mental and physical durability in elite circus artists
168(2)
The impact of women's implicit beliefs about success on their experience of being a mother and being in paid employment
170(2)
Gender and leadership in the UK's armed forces
172(1)
A Model For Effective Supervision From the Student Teachers' Perspective: A Social Constructivist Approach
173(2)
Personal work engagement, disengagement and meaningfulness
175(2)
`Say what you see': using visual metaphors as part of personal development planning
177(1)
Diary-in-group method: a constructivist participative group technique
178(2)
Snakes and ladders LifeMapping: a process for visual data collection
180(2)
Using rivers of experience to explore people's relationships with nature
182(3)
Conclusion
185(2)
12 Constructive alternatives, psychic mirrors and narrative turns: reflections on a lifetime as a personal construct researcher
187(14)
Maureen Pope
Introduction
187(1)
Considering alternatives
188(2)
Centre for the Study of Human Learning
190(2)
Leaving the fold: new landscapes
192(1)
Research communities: home and away
193(3)
Turbulence and transitions
196(1)
Transcending professional boundaries: towards a new research community
197(2)
Coda
199(2)
Postscript
201(4)
Key points
201(1)
Living and working as a constructivist
201(2)
An invitation
203(2)
Glossary
205(4)
Appendix A The fundamental postulate and the 11 corollaries
209(1)
Appendix B Resources and sources of support
210(5)
Internet resources for personal construct psychology
210(1)
Websites with links to PCP resources
210(1)
Mailing lists
211(1)
Journals
211(1)
Societies and major centres
212(1)
Software and services
212(3)
References 215(8)
Index 223
Working across a range of disciplines (Psychology, Health & Social Care and Pharmacy), Pam Denicolo, a Professor Emerita from the University of Reading,  a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and an Honorary Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, has wide-ranging experience both of using a range of research approaches and methods and of teaching how to use them well to a broad range of students and professionals world-wide. She has served on executive boards and committees of national and international learned societies and organisations devoted to research and teaching. She continues to publish widely student support materials, books, and journal articles on research because she remains passionately committed to mentoring and coaching newer researchers and academics.



Trevor Long has just completed a part-time PhD in Applied Psychology at the University of Reading, United Kingdom. He is an Independent Educator and consultant in organisational strategy, leadership and change. He has worked over many years with business schools, including Henley, Warwick, Duke and Cambridge, on MBA and Executive Education programmes, in the United Kingdom, other European countries and further afield, including South Africa, the United States, Caribbean, Middle East and New Zealand. Consultancy projects have included strategic direction, leadership development, change programmes and coaching activities in many different sectors and types of organisation.   Kim Bradley-Cole is a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. She has a PhD in Leadership and Organisational Behaviour from University of Reading, and an MSc in Occupational and Organisational Psychology from University of Surrey.  Kim retrained as a psychologist after a successful career in FMCG marketing and innovations, working on developing some of Britains best loved brands, including Heinz, Bisto, Mr Kipling and Twinings. She has held marketing and HR roles in large organisations, as well as working agency side in market research and as a freelance work psychologist and coach. She actively uses constructivist methods in both academic and practitioner contexts and has taught MSc and PhD students how to effectively develop, apply and analyse different tools in their own research. Her PhD was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and used constructivist techniques to bring greater clarity and depth to an important, but contested, theoretical field by exploring managers implicit beliefs of authentic leadership. Kim is currently Director of Undergraduate Studies in Psychology at University of Surrey, where she teaches organisational psychology and qualitative research methods.