Author: Alice Cree Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1538160986 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 291
Book Description
This edited collection explores how creativity and creative practice can enhance research in military studies, and shed new light on military power and militarised cultures.
Author: Helen Kara Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350355763 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 345
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This book provides both an overview of, and an insight into, the rapidly expanding field of creative research methods. The contributors, from four continents, range from doctoral students through to independent and practice-based researchers to senior professors, providing a clear view of the applicability of creative research methods in all types of research work. Chapters offer examples of creative research methods in practice, and advice on how to transfer or adapt those methods for different disciplines and settings. Research ethics and research quality are considered throughout. This is a timely handbook which provides information for novice researchers and inspiration for experienced researchers, and is essential reading for anyone interested in creative research methods.
Author: Ronald D. Daniel Publisher: ISBN: Category : Creative ability Languages : en Pages : 0
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Creativity is important for the Army because it is so essential to strategic leadership. The Army, like all institutions, is dependent on strategic leadership, but like most institutions distrusts creativity. A large degree of that distrust is caused by viewing creativity as artistic inspiration outside the realm of science and management, a view that is widely accepted in modern society. Scientific research into creativity, however, indicates that this romantic view of creativity is a myth. Although creativity can not be delivered on demand or even predicted with accuracy, it is subject to explanation and understanding by scientific methods. The knowledge gained by scientific research offers ways for the Army to come to terms with creativity and take steps to ensure it has creative strategic leadership in the future. Matching what is known about creativity with the characteristic of the Army's processes, procedures, and culture shows that the Army is doing very well in certain areas required to produce creative strategic leaders; however, there are also areas where the Army is either missing opportunities to stimulate the development of creative leaders or is actually inhibiting creativity. These uneven results are caused by the Army's tendency to leave the development of creativity to chance. A systematic approach is needed. The approach and recommendations suggested in this article are the first steps in applying scientific knowledge about creativity to ensure future strategic leadership.
Author: Joseph Soeters Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136203303 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 506
Book Description
This volume offers an overview of the methodologies of research in the field of military studies. As an institution relying on individuals and resources provided by society, the military has been studied by scholars from a wide range of disciplines: political science, sociology, history, psychology, anthropology, economics and administrative studies. The methodological approaches in these disciplines vary from computational modelling of conflicts and surveys of military performance, to the qualitative study of military stories from the battlefield and veterans experiences. Rapidly developing technological facilities (more powerful hardware, more sophisticated software, digitalization of documents and pictures) render the methodologies in use more dynamic than ever. The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Military Studies offers a comprehensive and dynamic overview of these developments as they emerge in the many approaches to military studies. The chapters in this Handbook are divided over four parts: starting research, qualitative methods, quantitative methods, and finalizing a study, and every chapter starts with the description of a well-published study illustrating the methodological issues that will be dealt with in that particular chapter. Hence, this Handbook not only provides methodological know-how, but also offers a useful overview of military studies from a variety of research perspectives. This Handbook will be of much interest to students of military studies, security and war studies, civil-military relations, military sociology, political science and research methods in general.
Author: Loretta Lees Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 1800883498 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 456
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With 78 specially commissioned entries written by a diverse range of contributors, this essential reference book covers the breadth and depth of human geography to provide a lively and accessible state of the art of the discipline for students, instructors and researchers.
Author: Naeem Inayatullah Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1538165120 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 157
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Is teaching possible? Is learning possible? Pedagogy as Encounter proposes that new and diverse forms of learning will appear if we abandon teaching as an explicit goal. Through these largely autobiographical vignettes, all grounded in Lacanian theory and critical global political economy, the author inspires a radical form of pedagogy.
Author: Stephen Chan Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1538164981 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 141
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The Lived International is a poetic account of Stephen Chan’s personal engagement in International Relations. It speaks to the inadequacy of an abstract voyeurism while the problems of the world are death, devastation and underdevelopment. Drawn from a lifetime of travel and engagement, and from both published and hitherto unpublished poetry, forming a parallel list to the author’s academic works, the book seeks to inject into debate the sense that language, spoken and written discourse alone, are not a sufficient claim to ‘bearing witness’, and that even activism from afar can often fail to understand a human condition that afflicts the majority of the world’s population. Chan demonstrates that a life of praxis, living international relations, yields more insights than a life of theory alone.
Author: Laura J. Shepherd Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1538169657 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 133
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The Self, and Other Stories lies at the intersection of IR and the personal. Through seven reflexive essays, Shepherd explores themes of writing as a way of being and knowing, but also as a necessary form of self-expression in contemporary academia.
Author: Alison J. Williams Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317042581 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 432
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This new handbook is about the practices of conducting research on military issues. As an edited collection, it brings together an extensive group of authors from a range of disciplinary perspectives whose chapters engage with the conceptual, practical and political questions raised when doing military research. The book considers a wide range of questions around research about, on and with military organisations, personnel and activities, from diverse starting-points across the social sciences, arts and humanities. Each chapter in this volume: Describes the nature of the military research topic under scrutiny and explains what research practices were undertaken and why. Discusses the author's research activities, addressing the nature of their engagement with their subjects and explaining how the method or approach under scrutiny was distinctive because of the military context or subject of the research. Reflects on the author’s research experiences, and the specific, often unique, negotiations with the politics and practices of military institutions and military personnel before, during and after their research fieldwork. The book provides a focussed overview of methodological approaches to critical studies of military personnel and institutions, and processes and practices of militarisation and militarism. In particular, it engages with the growth in qualitative approaches to military research, particularly research carried out on military topics outside military research institutions. The handbook provides the reader with a comprehensive guide to how critical military research is being undertaken by social scientists and humanities scholars today, and sets out suggestions for future approaches to military research. This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, war and conflict studies, and research methods in general.
Author: Alice Cree
Author: Helen Kara
Author: Ronald D. Daniel
Author: Joseph Soeters
Author: Loretta Lees
Author: Sungju Park-Kang
Author: Naeem Inayatullah
Author: Stephen Chan
Author: Laura J. Shepherd
Author: Alison J. Williams