Qualitative software programs have gained in popularity but researchers often have little training in using them and a limited understanding of important issues. This presentation will explain factors to be considered when deciding on a qualitative software program.
Innovation is the creation of new objects or ideas - it is the process by which people introduce, re-think, adapt, surprise, generate, transform, and otherwise move some part of the world in a new direction. Innovation brings attention to human agency and creativity, and the importance of recognizing our capacity to think, act, and react beyond "the norm" or what is expected. The 2010 NCFR annual conference theme is "Families and Innovation." [See page for links to the conference program booklet; audio/video order form; program schedule; presentation downloads/handouts; and more]
In this issue of NCFR Report, we have collected some of the best articles from the Family Focus section and republished them in this double issue. We hope you enjoy this anthology assembled by Guest Co-editor Alexis Walker and staff Editor Nancy Gonzalez.
The Society for Research in Child Development just released a social policy report brief entitled Making Schools Safe for Sexual Minority and All Students.
Every theory consists of both a description of some causal logic (the theoretical orientation) and an application of that logic to some class of empirical situations (the theory itself). This workshop will show ways to make this distinction so as to heighten the clarity of theory discourse.
Ronald Sabatelli, Ph.D., Professor and Department Head, Human Development and Family Studies, University of Connecticut, and Editor, Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies
The purpose of this essay is to offer advice on how to write for publication. Papers giving advice on how to write articles and how to succeed at publishing, in theory, reduce the anxieties that accompany the writing process. Advice provides information that, in turn, makes the writing process a little less intimidating.
In this issue of NCFR Report, we are going to underscore our logo’s tagline “catalyzing research, theory and practice” completely. Its authors are some of NCFR’s most respected researchers, including two of our journal editors. Research and theory will come alive as you read how other expert researchers have taken their studies and applied them to the media and public policy.
