Studying Service-Learning: Innovations in Education Research Methodology
This volume represents a breakthrough discussion of the research issues surrounding innovative pedagogies. Using service-learning as its focus, it explores ways in which researchers and evaluators can study a teaching and learning approach that has multiple goals, including both academic and affective development. The chapter authors show how to study a topic that is multilayered, complex, and involves the ways in which individuals make meaning of their experiences.
Systems Engineering: A 21st Century Systems Methodology
This book conceives, presents and exemplifies a contemporary, general systems methodology that is straightforward and accessible, providing guidance in practical application, as well as explaining concept and theory. The book is presented both as a text for students, with topic assignments, and as a reference for practitioners, through case studies.
The process of modeling to be explored in this book is based upon the principles and distinctions of Neuro-Linguistic Progamming - NLP. NLP is a behavioral science that provides: 1. An Epostemology - a system of knowledge and values 2. A Methodology - Processes and procedures for applying knowledge and values. 3. A Technology - Tools to aid in the application of knowledge and values.
Law, Economics, and Morality examines the possibility of combining economic methodology and deontological morality through explicit and direct incorporation of moral constraints into economic models. Economic analysis of law is a powerful analytical methodology. However, as a purely consequentialist approach, which determines the desirability of acts and rules solely by assessing the goodness of their outcomes, standard cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is normatively objectionable.
Econometrics: Alchemy or Science? Essays in Econometric Methodology
A text on econometric modeling in economics, analyzing the various conflicting methods in use today, reviewing the benefits and drawbacks of each. Uses empirical applications, Monte Carlo simulations, and theoretical and econometric analyses to determine best practice as regards the competing approaches. Softcover.
