Researching Care with Case Studies offers a fresh perspective on the universe of care practices, using case studies to illuminate their stretch and complexities.
Researching Care with Case Studies offers a fresh perspective on the universe of care practices, using case studies to illuminate their stretch and complexities.
Building on Robert Stakes foundational work with qualitative methods and Merel Visses integrating insights from care studies, this book offers a comprehensive approach to understanding care across various disciplines. It bridges the gap between research ethodology and both professional and personal realities and concerns of care. Readers will benefit from its focus on the "collaborative-expressive" model of morality, exploring shared responsibility and dynamic interactions in care settings. This practical approach contrasts with traditional theoretical models, offering a more inclusive and adaptable understanding of care. Here, "care" is broadly defined as encompassing all that is done to enhance personal and other well-being, including shared responsibilities, responsiveness to evolving needs, and the ongoing negotiation of optimal solutions.
Step by step, this book guides both novice and experienced researchers in prioritizing issues and concerns, context, specific details, relationships, the richness of lived experiences, and personal narratives when studying and advancing care. It provides insights into the strengths of case studies in revealing the essence of care ethics and supports a more nuanced, responsive approach to care research and practice.
1. Care: Holding Reality Dear
2. The Study of Care
3. Using Case Study
to Study Care
4. Organizing the Case Study
5. Experiential Orientation
6.
Objectivity and Subjectivity
7. Field Work
8. Data Analysis
9. Writing the
Report
10. Making the case for understanding care; Appendices I. The School
Board Meeting Dialogue II. Story-telling III. Critiquing Quality of
Performance IV. Ellipse Planner of Reader Focused Writing V. Shadow Study of
a Sixth Grader VI. Judgmental Validity of a Case Study Report VII. Storyboard
Report Mock-Up VIII. Analysis Table IX. Sample Outline Report X. Report
Review Checklist XI. Ethical Problems in Case Study
Robert Stake is a widely known educational researcher and Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of Illinois, USA. He has been a prominent figure in the field of program evaluation, having made more than a few contributions to its theory and practice. With Merel, together they work on various case studies and publications.
Merel Visse is a scholar, artist, editor, and educator, who, for three decades, successfully initiated various grant-funded, innovative, cross-disciplinary programs around care and the arts with civic and academic impact. As of now, she holds a faculty position at Drew Universitys Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, USA.
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