Spark: A Book Review

Spark, a social research novel by Patricia Leavy, innovatively explores the complexities of doing collaborative, complex research. The story follows Sociology Professor Peyton Wilde during a week-long research seminar in Iceland with, as her invitation reads, "some of the greatest thinkers of o...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:The Qualitative Report
Main Author: Watson, Ashleigh
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Nova Southeastern University 2019
Subjects:
3901 Curriculum and Pedagogy
3903 Education Systems
3904 Specialist Studies In Education
39 Education
anzsrc-for: 3901 Curriculum and Pedagogy
anzsrc-for: 3903 Education Systems
anzsrc-for: 3904 Specialist Studies In Education
anzsrc-for: 39 Education
anzsrc-for: 1303 Specialist Studies in Education
Iceland
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/104345
https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2019.4050
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Summary:Spark, a social research novel by Patricia Leavy, innovatively explores the complexities of doing collaborative, complex research. The story follows Sociology Professor Peyton Wilde during a week-long research seminar in Iceland with, as her invitation reads, "some of the greatest thinkers of our time." With an intriguing setup, swift plotline and lively characters, Leavy reaches to the heart of key concerns in interdisciplinary and mixed-methods research. Such concerns are well-discussed in the wider scholarly literature; Leavy uniquely handles and examines these concerns in fiction in a way that will be valuable to teachers and students alike. Spark makes an impressive contribution to fiction-based inquiry.

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