ABSTRACT
Chapter 5, ‘Research Strategy and Design’, presents the research design of the study and offers a brief account of its methodological foundations and methods of data collection and analysis. It also presents the characteristics of the schools that took part in the study, outlines the rationale for their selection and discusses the sampling procedures. This chapter is divided into seven sections. Section one starts by presenting an overview of the relevant research. Section two explores the ontological and epistemological assumptions of the study. Section three discusses the research approach and the methodology. Section four describes the methods of data collection and data analysis. Section five focuses on sampling and the procedures of the fieldwork itself. Section six gives consideration to the ethical issues that arose during this research study. Lastly, section seven presents the dissemination procedures of the findings (how, to whom and for what purposes).
