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Structuring the Thesis

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Critical Reflections on the Conventional Thesis Structure and a Guide to the Research Questions Addressed in the Book
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    Chapter 2 The Collective Voyage of Discovery: How the Book Was Developed and Produced
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    Chapter 3 The Paradigmatic Challenge of Mixed-Methods Research: Positivism, Relativism or Pragmatism?
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    Chapter 4 An Exploration of Epistemological Beliefs, Learning Environment Expectations and Persistence Intentions: Insights into the Shaping of Student Persistence in the First Semester of University Study at Three Australian Universities
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    Chapter 5 The Challenges Faced by Male Primary Teachers
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    Chapter 6 English Language Teaching in Nepal: An Investigation of Issues and Challenges
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    Chapter 7 How Do Students Make Decisions About Overseas Higher Education? A Case Study of Chinese International Students at a Regional Australian University
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    Chapter 8 Linguistic Complexity in English Textbooks: A Functional Grammar Perspective
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    Chapter 9 Structure by Design: Reasoning About Covariation with TinkerPlots
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    Chapter 10 Researching in the ‘Cultural Interface’: Working Between Non-indigenous and Indigenous Research Paradigms
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    Chapter 11 Action Research and Criticality: Working Out the Stone in Your Shoe
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    Chapter 12 Students’ Understanding of Statistical Inference: Implications for Teaching
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    Chapter 13 The Design and Implementation of a Short Course, Focusing on Metacognition, to Develop Writing Skills for University Students for Whom English Is an Additional Language: An Action Research Study
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    Chapter 14 Intersections of Indigenous Knowledge and Place Based Education: Possibilities for New Visions of Sustainability Education in Uganda
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    Chapter 15 ‘I Only Look Forward to Mondays’. Facilitating Creative Writing Groups: Ageism, Action and Empowerment
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    Chapter 16 A Journey Around Tongan Education
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    Chapter 17 Ways of Working in the Interpretive Tradition
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    Chapter 18 Fluid Methods to Make Sense of an Unknown: An Emergent Grounded Theory Study of Cultural Wellbeing
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    Chapter 19 Exploring Interpretations of Sustainability Across Diverse Social Contexts
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    Chapter 20 Embracing Change When ‘Writing for Change’: My Ph.D. Journey
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    Chapter 21 Teaching History in Australian Museums: Pedagogy and Praxis
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    Chapter 22 Social Justice and Constructivist Grounded Theory
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    Chapter 23 Language Learning and Integration of Adult Bhutanese Refugees: An Ethnographic Study
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    Chapter 24 Exposure and Effect: An Investigation into a Culture of Body Pedagogies
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    Chapter 25 Arts-Based Research in Education: Becomings from a Doctoral Research Perspective
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    Chapter 26 Silent, Invisible and Under-Supported? An Autoethnographic Journey Through the Valley of the Shadow of Youth Mental Health in Australia
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    Chapter 27 Emergent Theory and/as Doctoral Research
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    Chapter 28 The Way that Things Are Done Around Here: An Investigation into the Organisational and Social Structures that Contribute to Structural Power Within the Australian Swim Coach Education Pathway
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    Chapter 29 Are We All Foodies Now? An Ethnographic Exploration of Food Experience in Primary Schools
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    Chapter 30 Governing Civil Society: How Literacy, Education and Security Were Brought Together
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    Chapter 31 From Developing Child to Competent Learner: A Genealogical Study of the Kindergarten Child and Progressive Reform in Aotearoa New Zealand
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    Chapter 32 Feeling-Thinking for a Feminist Participatory Visual Ethnography
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    Chapter 33 Girls’ Tales: Experiences of Schooling: Making a Re/Active Documentary Film
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    Chapter 34 Intricacies of Professional Learning in Health Care: The Case of Supporting Self-management in Paediatric Diabetes
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    Chapter 35 Understanding New Spaces and Relations of Global Governance in Education: The OECD’s PISA for Schools
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    Chapter 36 Now, Then, When: Working with Qualitative Longitudinal and Intergenerational Research to Study Pathways and Imagined Futures in Transnational Times
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    Chapter 37 Being Chosen and Performing Choice: Young People Engaging in Imaginative and Constrained Secondary School Practices in Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    Chapter 38 Research Secrets, Research ‘Messiness’ and the Complexity of Knowing: Behind the Thesis and the Content’s Page
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    Chapter 39 Reflections on Methodological Issues
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    Chapter 40 Lessons Learnt About Structuring the Thesis and Implications for Practice
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Title
Structuring the Thesis
Published by
Springer Singapore, January 2018
DOI 10.1007/978-981-13-0511-5
ISBNs
978-9-81-130510-8, 978-9-81-130511-5
Editors

David Kember, Michael Corbett

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Country Count As %
Unknown 103 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 14%
Student > Master 14 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 12%
Researcher 10 10%
Professor 6 6%
Other 14 14%
Unknown 33 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 29 28%
Business, Management and Accounting 9 9%
Arts and Humanities 6 6%
Computer Science 4 4%
Engineering 4 4%
Other 14 14%
Unknown 37 36%