Democracy and Politics in Social Studies: In Search of Students' Perceptions Through a Multiphase Design

• In Event: Moscone Center North Roundtable Session 7
  In Roundtable Session: Mixed Methods in Practice

Abstract

In this paper, I argue that the use of mixed methods (MM) contributes to research that aims to understand young people’s perceptions in the context of research on social studies education. The paper reports from a research project comprising three separate studies; two using qualitative methods, and one using quantitative methods. Discussing how the three studies were designed sequentially as a multiphase mixed methods research (MMR) project, I argue that the sequential design enabled a richer understanding of students’ perceptions than would have been possible using fewer data collection methods. The main contribution of this paper comes from demonstrating how a sequential design and multiple data sources can provide a richer understanding of students’ perceptions related to social studies education.

Author

• Nora Elise Hesby Mathe, University of Oslo