This four-volume major work collates and contextualises key papers on the use of case study in education. The collection brings together methodological publications and publications which provide exemplars of case study.

VOLUME ONE: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES AROUND THE USE OF CASE STUDIES IN SOCIAL SCIENCE Do Physicists Use Case Studies? Thoughts on Public Administration Research - Mary Timney Bailey Cases, Causes, Conjunctures, Stories, Imagery - Howard Becker Informing Generality and Explaining Uniqueness - York Bradshaw and Michael Wallace The Place of Case Studies in Comparative Research The Narrative Construction of Reality - Jerome Bruner Observation, Context and Sequence in the Study of Politics - Richard Fenno Five Misunderstandings about Case Study Research - Bent Flyvbjerg The Issue of Quality in Qualitative Research - Martyn Hammersley Introduction - Martyn Hammersley and Roger Gomm Case Studies as Natural Experiments - Allen Lee Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method - Arend Lijphart ′Case Study′ in American Methodological Thought - Jennifer Platt Introduction - Charles Ragin Cases of ′What Is a case?′ How Narratives Explain - Paul Roth Persuasion with Case Studies - Nicolaj Siggelkow A Typology for the Case Study in Social Science Following a Review of Definition, Discourse and Structure - Gary Thomas Doing Case Study - Gary Thomas Abduction not Induction; Phronesis not Theory Redefining Case Study - Rob Van Wynsberghe and Samia Khan Case Studies - Michel Wieviorka History or Sociology? VOLUME TWO: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES AROUND THE USE OF CASE STUDIES IN EDUCATION Bread and Dreams or Bread and Circuses? A Critique of ′Case Study′ Research in Education - Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont Educational Research and Inter-Textual Forms of (Re) Presentation - Carl Bagley and Mary Beth Cancienne The Case for Dancing the Data Pedagogic Research - Michael Bassey On the Relative Merits of Search for Generalization and Study of Single Events Pedagogic Research into Singularities - Michael Bassey Case Studies, Probes and Curriculum Innovations Making the Case - David Garvin Professional Education for the World of Practice The Imagination of the Case and the Invention of the Study - Stephen Kemmis This Is Your Father′s Paradigm - Patti Lather Government Intrusion and the Case of Qualitative Research in Education Case Study and the Social Philosophy of Educational Research - Barry MacDonald and Rob Walker In Search of Subjectivity - One′s Own - Alan Peshkin Ethics of Case Study in Educational Research and Evaluation - Helen Simons The Paradox of Case Study - Helen Simons An Evolving Logic of Participant Observation, Educational Ethnography and Other Case Studies - Louis Smith The Case Study Method in Social Inquiry - Robert Stake Case Study and Case Records - Lawrence Stenhouse Towards a Contemporary History of Education The Study of Samples and the Study of Cases - Lawrence Stenhouse The Case - Gary Thomas Generalization and Theory in Case Study Three Good Reasons for not Doing Case Studies in Curriculum Research - Rob Walker Case Study, Case Records and Multimedia - Rob Walker VOLUME THREE: THE CASE STUDY IN PRACTICE - GENERAL ISSUES AND SPECIFIC EXAMPLES After Cultural Competency - Peter Benson and Kedron Thomas Research Practice and Moral Experience in the Study of Brand Pirates and Tobacco Farmers The Last People Alive - J. Diamond Pitcairn and Henderson Islands Theory -Building from Cases - Kathleen Eisenhardt and Melissa Graebner Opportunities and Challenges Extract from Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud Deep Play - Clifford Geertz Notes on the Balinese Cockfight Phase One - A.L. George and A. Bennett Designing Case Study Research What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good for? - John Gerring A Case for Case Studies in Social Work Research - Jane Gilgun First Developments of the Young Savage of Aveyron - J.M.G. Itard From Interview to Story - Christine Elizabeth Kiesinger Writing Abbie′s Life Case and Situation Analysis - J.Clyde Mitchell The First Night - J. Patrick Participatory Photography - Esther Prins A Tool for Empowerment or Surveillance? Embodiment, Academics and the Audit Culture - Andrew Sparkes A Story Seeking Consideration What Is a Case Study? - Gary Thomas Extract from ′The Polish Peasant in Europe and America′ - W.I. Thomas and F. Znaniecki VOLUME FOUR: EXAMPLES OF CASE STUDIES IN EDUCATION Adolescents, Social Life and School Life - S.J. Ball ′Five on the First of December!′ - Liz Brooker What Can We Learn from Case Studies of Early Childhood Literacy? The Crux of Leadership - Hugh Busher Shaping School Culture by Contesting the Policy Contexts and Practices of Teaching and Learning Working with Teaching Assistants - Hilary Cremin, Gary Thomas and Karen Vincett Three Models Evaluated Achievement of Black Caribbean Pupils - Feyisa Demie Good Practice in Lambeth Schools An Unconventional Setting for a Conventional Occasion - Jon Driessen and Julene Newland Pyfer A Case Study of an Experimental Adult Education Program Teaching as Research - Eleanor Duckworth The Puzzle of Inclusion - Philip Ferguson A Case Study of Autistic Students in the Life of One High School ′A Few of the Brightest, Cleanest Mexican Children′ - David García, Tara Yosso and Frank Barajas School Segregation as a Form of Mundane Racism in Oxnard, California, 1900-1940 Julie′s Approach - S. Hart et al Access, Security and Success A Dialogic Inquiry Approach to Working with Teachers in Developing Classroom Dialogue - Sara Hennessy, Paul Warwick and Neil Mercer Theory in Initial Teacher Education - Chris Holligan Students′ Perspectives on Its Utility - a Case Study Lessons and Dilemmas Derived from the Literacy Instruction of Two Latina/o Teachers - Robert Jimenez and Russell Gersten Understanding Reading Disability - Peter Johnston A Case Study Approach The Making of the Inclusive School - G. Thomas, D. Walker and J. Webb Extract from Learning to Labour - P. Willis Learning to Laugh - Travis Wright A Portrait of Risk and Resilience in Early Childhood The School and Community - H.F. Wolcott