Author: James P. Spradley
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Keywords: observation, participant
Number of Pages: 195
Published: 1980-01-02
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0030445019
ISBN-13: 9780030445019

This text is a follow up to Spradley’s earlier ethographic research handbook, The Ethnographic Interview, and guides students through the technique of participant observation to research ethnography and culture. Spradley also teaches students how to analyze the data they collect, and write an ethnography. The appendices include research questions and writing tasks.

Author: Ted Wragg
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: observation, classroom, introduction
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1999-05-14
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 0415194407
ISBN-13: 9780415194402

The first edition of this book was a bestseller, and is generally regarded as the most widely used and authoritative text on this topic. This completely revised and updated second edition takes into account the latest changes in educational practice, and includes coverage of recent developments in teacher appraisal and school inspection procedures. Ted Wragg is an international expert on research into teaching and learning, but has always been someone who writes with the teacher in mind. Using a combination of case studies, photographs and illustrations, Wragg shows how various people stud

Author: Elizabeth Joh
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: observation, nature, homer, winslow
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-11-04
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0520227255
ISBN-13: 9780520227255

With close analysis of Homer’s art and of the personal challenges he faced throughout his life, Winslow Homer: The Nature of Observation is the most comprehensive study to date of the relationship between the artist’s work and the psychological stages of his life. Elizabeth Johns uses theories advanced by Erik Erikson and Daniel Levinson to look at Homer’s evolution as a painter and a person within the context of the continuing dynamics of his family. Her incisive and absorbing readings of the artist’s work take into account the developmental stages of young, middle, an

Author: Brian Curtis
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Keywords: reprint, observation, drawing
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2009-05-22
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0077356276
ISBN-13: 9780077356279

Perceptual drawing, in which one renders the physical world as it appears to an observer, is the focus of this new text for the introductory drawing course. With an emphasis on progressive skill development, Drawing from Observation offers a balanced mix of hands-on technique and perceptual theory while making a compelling argument for the long-term value of studying perception-based drawing.

Author: J.Y. Buchanan
Publisher: Buchanan Press
Keywords: reasoning, observation, rendus, comptes
Number of Pages: 520
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $33.45
ISBN-10: 1406759899
ISBN-13: 9781406759891

Text extracted from opening pages of book: COMPTES RENDUS OF OBSERVATION AND REASONING, BY J. Y. BUCHANAN, M. A., F. R. S. Commandeur de 1’ Ordre dc Saint Charles de Monaco Vice-President du Comite de Perfectionnement de I’lnstitut Oceanographique ( Fondation Albert 1 ( T Prince de Monaco) Prove all things. Hold fast that which is good. I Thess. v. 21 Cambridge : at the University Press 1917 < Sx~^-,^ PREFACE AS the title of this volume indicates, the book consists of accounts rendered of work dotte. at different times, in different places and on different subjects. In republishing

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Publisher: Cengage Learning Australia
Keywords: settings, childhood, reflection, observation
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 017012973X
ISBN-13: 9780170129732

Author: David F. Gray
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: photospheres, stellar, analysis, observation
Number of Pages: 550
Published: 2005-11-28
List price: $103.99
ISBN-10: 0521851866
ISBN-13: 9780521851862

Revising topics and results to include the latest research, this updated third edition describes the equipment, observational techniques, and analysis used to investigate stellar photospheres. Topics covered include radiation transfer, models of stellar photospheres, spectroscopic equipment, observing stellar spectra, and techniques for measuring stellar characteristics. The comprehensive textbook is ideal for advanced students of stellar physics. Each chapter contains exercises, and useful real star data and primary references can be found throughout.