Reason & Rigor

This book helps students understand the functional, comprehensive role of conceptual frameworks in organizing and guiding their empirical research. The authors, Sharon Ravitch and Matthew Riggan, show how conceptual frameworks are a process through which researchers identify the questions and lines of inquiry that matter most to them, develop appropriate strategies for pursuing those questions, and monitor and reflect on their own learning and thinking. Students learn how to use existing knowledge (theory, methods, and empirical research) in conjunction with their own interests and observations to ask better questions, develop robust and justifiable strategies for exploring those questions, and explain both the importance and limitations of their findings.

Publication Information
Sage Publications, 2011
ISBN: 978-1412981255, $49.95 (paperback)       ORDER
216 pages