Seeing for yourself : research handbook for girls' education in Africa /

This book reflects a new dimension in the Bank ' s efforts to create effective strategies for girls ' education. It recognizes the need to reach deeper into the community and to draw upon local participation to help produce reliable, timely, and culturally sensitive information on issues a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kane, Eileen
Corporate Author: Banco Mundial. Instituto de Desarrollo Económico
Format: Book
Published: Washington, D.C. : World Bank. Economic Development Institute, 1995
Series:EDI learning resources series
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505 0 |a Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Pt. 1. Before we begin: 1. Introduction -- 2. Social research: the debate today -- Pt. 2. Planning your research: 3. What do you want to study and why? -- 4. Planning research that describes -- 5. Planning research that explains and predicts -- 6. Whom will you study? -- Pt. 3. Research techniques: the basic tools: 7. Selecting your techniques and strategies -- 8. Using what is already available -- 9. Surveys -- 10. Measures, scales, and indices -- 11. Unstructured and semistructured interviews -- 12. Two qualitative strategies: case studies and participant observation -- 13. Other qualitative approaches -- 14. Rapid assessment and participatory learning approaches -- 15. Recording and organizing qualitative information -- Pt. 4. Working with your results: 16. Qualitative analysis -- 17. Quantitative analysis -- 18. Presenting your results -- 19. Epilogue: What next? -- Appendix 1. Sample research outline -- Appendix 2. Grid approach for assessing a situation or evaluating a project -- Appendix 3. Some measures, scales, and indices used to study girls' education -- Bibliography -- Index 
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