Doing development research / 
Vandana Desai and Robert B. Potter 
 - London :  SAGE Publications,  2006. 
 - 324 p. 
<br/><br/>PART ONE: INTRODUCTION<br/>The Raison d'etre of Doing Development Research<br/>PART TWO: STRATEGIC ISSUES IN PLANNING SOUND RESEARCH<br/>Doing Fieldwork in Developing Countries - Tony Binns<br/>Planning and Logistics<br/>Ethical Practices in Doing Development Research - Lynne Brydon<br/>Working in Different Cultures - Caesar R A Apentiik and Jane L Parpart<br/>Issues of Race, Ethnicity and Identity<br/>Women, Men and Fieldwork - Janet Henshall Momsen<br/>Gender Relations and Power Structures<br/>Working with Children in Development - Lorraine van Blerk<br/>Collecting Sensitive and Contentious Information - Margaret E Harrison<br/>Dealing with Conflicts and Emergency Situations - Morten Boas, Kathleen M Jennings and Timothy M Shaw<br/>Working with Partners - Bill Gould<br/>Educational Institutions<br/>Working with Partners - Mansoor Ali and Andrew Cotton<br/>Government Ministries<br/>Working with Partners - Claire Mercer<br/>NGOs and CBOs<br/>Doing Development Studies 'At Home' - Tim Unwin<br/>PART THREE: INFORMATION AND DATA COLLECTION METHODS<br/>METHODS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH AND ASSOCIATED FORMS OF ANALYSIS<br/>Quantitative, Qualitative or Participatory - Linda Mayoux<br/>Which Method, for What and When?<br/>Field Surveys and Inventories - David Barker<br/>Interviewing - Katie Willis<br/>Focus Groups - Sally Lloyd-Evans<br/>Your Questions Answered: Conducting Questionnnaire Surveys - David Simon<br/>Lost in Translation? The Use of Interpreters in Fieldwork - Janet Bujra<br/>Ethnographic and Participant Observation - Jan Kees van Donge<br/>Participatory Methods and Approaches - Harriot Beazley and Judith Ennew<br/>Tackling the Two Tyrannies<br/>Diaries and Case Studies - JoAnn McGregor<br/>USING EXISTING KNOWLEDGE AND RECORDS<br/>Literature Reviews and Bibliographic Searches - Paula Meth and Glyn Williams<br/>Using the Indigenous Local Knowledge and Literature - Cathy McIlwaine<br/>Using Images, Films and Photography - Cheryl McEwan<br/>Using Archives - Michael Jennings<br/>Remote Sensing, GIS and Ground Truthing - Denis Conway and Shanon Donnelly<br/>The Importance of Census and Other Secondary Data in Development Studies - Allan M Findlay<br/>Using the World Wide Web for Development Research - Emma Mawdsley<br/>Data from International Agencies - Jonathan Rigg<br/>DISSEMINATING FINDINGS/RESEARCH<br/>Writing an Effective Research Report or Dissertation - Steve Morse<br/>How is Research Communicated Professionally? - Sally Gainsbury and Cheryl Brown 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781412902847 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Action research; Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Research; Developing countries -- Social conditions -- Research; Developing countries -- Politics and government -- Research 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.907 2 DES P