Includes bibliographical references and index.

This title provides a guide to mixing or combining methods in educational and social research and covers complex interventions, Bayesian approaches, new political arithmetic, triangulation, life histories and design studies.

A third methodological movement : challenging the dominance of single methods -- Simple numeric and textual data : querying the divide -- Triangulation and combining methods across studies -- The "new" political arithmetic : a policy case study -- Understanding life histories by varying the scale -- The interplay of scale and type : complex interventions -- The promise of design studies -- What is the current prevalence of combined methods research? -- Theory as a barrier to the combination of research methods -- Prospects for the "new" education and social science researcher.

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