Special issue on social science research methods education

Informing Science Special Issue on Information Science Research

The papers in this Special Issue of Informing Science highlight research areas in the interdisciplinary field of Information Science. Key research problems for Information Science include: (1) how to model and effectively support human information behaviors, including information seeking and use behaviors, and interaction with information retrieval (IR) technologies, (2) how information should ...

Special Issue: State of the Art Reviews in Membrane Science and Research

Special issue on multigrid methods

This special issue of Computing and Visualization in Science contains selected papers from the 2014 European Multigrid conference (EMG 2014), which took place in Leuven, Belgium, from 9 to 12 September, 2014. European Multigrid (EMG) is a series of conferences on the theme of multigrid methods and related fields. EMG is one of the most important conference series on this topic worldwide. Previo...

Special iSSue on poStmodern methodS

1 Exploring “Events” as an Information Systems Research Methodology Anita Greenhill, University of Manchester, UK and Gordon Fletcher, University of Salford, UK This article builds upon existing research and commentary from a variety of disciplinary sources, including information systems, organisational and management studies, and the social sciences that focus upon the meaning, significance an...

Curriculum and methods research in special education

More than 15 years ago, we concluded that the preparation of teachers remains an unstudied problem in education (Sarason, Davidson, and Blatt, 1961). We later concluded that it is unsatisfac­ torily studied for the same reasons that curriculum and methods research is of little consequence, inadequate because for the most part their basic underpinnings are inadequate (Blatt and Garfunkel, 1973);...