Research Methods for African Scholarship Applying Qualitative and Quantitative Socio-cultural Methods in African Countries
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Date
2024
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Routledge Taylor & Francis
Abstract
This book spotlights and demystifies under-researched elements of research design to support successful research initiatives undertaken by students in African universities.
This volume marks a significant and important move way from research design books rooted in European and American socio-cultural context, and places emphasis on contextual realities in Africa. Attending to socio-cultural oral and written methods of eliciting data from participants; contextual sampling techniques; oral and third-party open ended survey instrumentation; and multi-prong data analysis schemes that emphasize ontological, epistemological, and axiological findings, these chapters constitute a novel and much-needed focus on realities and examples from the continent of Africa.
Written by African scholars, the book will appeal to post-graduate students and early-career scholars and researchers with interests in research methods across the social sciences.
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Table of Content:
1. Introduction 2. Theory and Methodological Dilemma for Research in Africa:
A Defense of Afrocentricity Frameworks 3. At a Disjuncture? African Research Epistemologies and Ontologies 4. Literature Assessment 5. Africa’s Narratives & Oral Cultures 6. Scientific Review of Research Protocols, Ethics and Academic Integrity in Africa 7. Qualitative Research & Application in the African Context 8. Quantitative Research & Application in African Context 9. Multiple Research Methods and the African Context 10. Mixed Method Research and the African Context 11. Language, Translation of Measurement Instruments, and Data Analysis
Keywords
Area Studies, Communication Studies, Education, Research Methods
Citation
Langmia, K., Onwumechili, C., Ayiro, L., & Lucy Lando, A. (2024). Research Methods for African Scholarship: Applying Qualitative and Quantitative Socio-cultural Methods in African Countries (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032657929