The Routledge Handbook for Advancing Integration in Mixed Methods Research

This groundbreaking edited book, The Routledge Handbook for Advancing Integration in Mixed Methods Research, presents an array of different integration ideas, with contributions from scholars across the globe. This handbook represents the first major volume that comprehensively discusses this topic of integration. Perhaps the most fundamental and longstanding question in mixed methods research is: How does one best integrate disparate forms of information to produce the best form of inquiry? Each of the 34 seminal chapters in this handbook accelerates the discussion of integration across a broad range of disciplines, including education, arts-based analyses, and work in the Global South, as well as special topics such as psychometrics and media research. Many of the chapters present new topics that have never been written about before, and all chapters offer cutting-edge approaches to integration. They also offer different perspectives of integration – leading the introductory chapter to offer a new and comprehensive definition for integration, as follows: "referring to the optimal mixing, combining, blending, amalgamating, incorporating, joining, linking, merging, consolidating, or unifying of research approaches, methodologies, philosophies, methods, techniques, concepts, language, modes, disciplines, fields, and/or teams within a single study." The concluding chapter offers a meta-framework that accounts for this definition and is designed to help scholars think more about integration in a way that represents a continuous, dynamic, iterative, interactive, synergistic, and holistic meaning-making process. This handbook will be an essential reference work for all scholars and practitioners using or seeking to use mixed methods in their research.

Table of Contents:
Introduction; 1. The Routledge Handbook for Advancing Integration in Mixed Methods Research: An Introduction; Part I. Conceptual and Philosophical Issues in Integration 2. Mapping the Landscape of Integration in Mixed Research 3. Adding to the Understanding of Fully Integrated Mixed Methods Research 4. Developing the Meta-Inference in Mixed Methods Research through Successive Integration of Claims 5. Mixed Methods Integration for Transformative Purposes 6. Integration in Mixed Methods Research: An Alternative Perspective; Part II. Integrated Designs 7. Paradigms in Mixed Methods Research 8. Designing Integrated Ethnographic Approaches 9. Phenomenography as a Basis for Fully Integrated Mixed Methodologies 10. A Tale of Inherent Integration: A Model Supporting a Shared Purpose to Investigate Videogame Programming in Libraries 11. Designing Integrated Mixed Methods Action Research Studies 12. Adaptive Practices for a Complexity-Sensitive Approach to Mixed Integration 13. The Emergent Multiphase Design: Demonstrating a Fully Integrated Approach in the Context of Language Research in Education 14. Designing for Integration in Mixed Methods Case Studies; Part III. Integrated Analyses 15. Bayesian Integration Applications in Physical Activity and Sport Research: Barriers and Solutions 16. Use of Bayesian Estimation in the Context of Fully Integrated Mixed Methods Models 17. Rethinking Integration in the Mixed IRT Framework: Advancing Research in Athletic Training 18. Mixed Methods Integration and the Ontological Imperative in Understanding Social Media Analytics 19. Learning Analytics as an Integrated Approach in Mixed Methods Research 20. Data Visualization in the Context of Integrated Analyses; 21. Conceptualizing Q Methodology as an Integrated Analysis Part IV. Arts-Based Integration Approaches 22. Arts-Based Integrated Research: Exemplars from the Literature 23. Toward Artful Integration in Mixed Methods Research 24. Integrating Arts-Based Approaches in Mixed Methods Research with Diverse Stakeholders; Part V. Integrated Approaches to Education and Special Education Research 25. Applying Mixed Methods and Integration Approaches to Early Childhood Intervention Research 26. Using an Integrated Approach When Conducting Juvenile Justice Special Education Mixed Research 27. Using Integration Approaches to Study School and Community Partnerships Across Transition Services; Part VI. Integration Approaches in Developing Nations 28. Conceptualizing Integrated Education Research Teams in Kosovo 29. Understanding Mixed Methods Integration in Chinese Education through Caterpillar Fungi as a Metaphor 30. The Utilization of Integration in Mixed Methods Research in the Caribbean 31. Understanding Integration via a Kaleidoscope Metaphor: The Case of SCRATCHMAPS; Part VII. Software Applications for Integrated Analyses 32. Using IBM SPSS Statistics for Integration in Mixed Methods Research 33. Using MAXQDA for Integration in Mixed Methods Research; Conclusion 34. Towards a Comprehensive Meta-Framework for Full Integration in Mixed Methods Research