Conversations About Group Concept Mapping

Applications, Examples, and Enhancements

Mary Kane, Scott Rosas

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781506329185
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781506329192
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Leadership in Education
• Index: Social Sciences

Conversations About Group Concept Mapping: Applications, Examples, and Enhancements takes a concise, practice-based approach to group concept mapping. After defining the method, demonstrating how to design a project, and providing guidelines to analyze the results, this book then dives into real research exemplars.  Conversations with the researchers are based on in depth interviews that connected method, practice and results.

The conversations are from a wide variety of research settings, that include mapping the needs of at-risk African American youth, creating dialogue within a local business community, considering learning needs in the 21st century, and identifying the best ways to support teens receiving Supplemental Social Security Income. The authors reflect on the commonalities between the cases and draw out insights into the overall group concept mapping method from each case.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Publisher Note
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Brief Contents
• Detailed Contents
• Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Section I
• 1 Simple Rules for Constructing Group Knowledge: The What and How of GCM
• 2 GCM in Action: Capturing Knowledge, Valuing Participation
• 3 GCM in Action: Analyzing for Results, Producing the Map
• Section II
• 4 Conversations on Group Concept Mapping With Guest Researchers: Introduction
• 5 A Conversation on Needs of At-Risk African American Youth in Chicago
• 6 A Conversation on Regional Economic Development and Cultural Entrepreneurship
• 7 A Conversation on the Future of Learning: New Ways to Learn New Skills for Future Jobs
• 8 A Conversation on Promoting Readiness for Living, Learning, and Working for Youth Who Have Disabilities Who Receive Supplemental Security Income
• 9 Synthesis: What We’ve Learned
• 10 Forward
• Appendices
• Appendix A Bibliography
• Appendix B: GCM Project Workbook
• Appendix C Technology for Managing and Conducting GCM
• Appendix D Guest Researchers’ Biographies
• Resource Guide
• Index