Edited by Peter Rule, Director of Centre for Higher and Adult Education, Department of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education, Stellenbosch University and Vaughn M. John, Professor, School of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

‘As a professor teaching a graduate course on case study research methodology, I look forward to incorporating Rule and John’s Handbook of Case Study Research in the Social Sciences into my curriculum. I particularly appreciate the book’s clear structure, focusing on the foundations and methodological dimensions of CSR, along with examples from various fields and disciplines. Chapter 5 by Rule and Chapter 6 by Spooner and Myres offer important insights into the relationship between CSR and theory, answering questions that frequently arise among my students. Although the chapters span many disciplines, my field of health services, systems, and policy remains unaddressed—a gap I encourage the editors to explore in future editions. Overall, a welcome addition to the CSR methodology literature!’

• Contents1 Introduction: case study research in the social sciences 1Peter RulePART I FOUNDATIONS2 Case study as meaning making 16Malcolm Tight3 Knowledge and knowing in case study research: towards a relationalepistemology 31Peter Rule and Bedrettin Yazan4 Studying a case in context 51Vaughn M. John5 Theory and theorizing in case study research 67Peter Rule6 Building theoretical frameworks from an intrinsic single case anda diverse multi-case study: a comparison 88Vivienne Spooner and Kerrin MyresPART II METHODOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS7 Multiple case study design 112Veena Vohra8 Navigating participatory methods in childhood research: a qualitativelydriven approach to case study design 131Jane Spiteri9 Case study and narrative 149Mariette Volschenk10 Case study and ethnography 172Joan M. Verd and Germán QuarantaPART III CASE STUDY IN FIELDS AND DISCIPLINES11 Case study research in education: considering possible paradoxes and concerns 194Lorna Hamilton12 The invention of the case study method in anthropology: first steps todecolonise knowledge in colonial and postcolonial societies 215Karen Sykes13 Case study research in social work 231Ian F. Shaw and Mark Hardy, with Peter Sommerfeld14 Case study research in counselling and psychotherapy 248David Edwards15 Case study research in public administration: analytical framework andsystematic review 272J.S. (Kobus) Wessels and J.N. Zongozzi16 Methodology for case studies in business ethics 302Jacob Dahl Rendtorff17 Case study at the nexus of the global and the local 310Adriana Nunez-Picado and Kirsten Martinus18 Concluding reflections on case study research and its prospects 330Vaughn M. JohnIndex 342

Edited by Peter Rule, Director of Centre for Higher and Adult Education, Department of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education, Stellenbosch University and Vaughn M. John, Professor, School of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

‘As a professor teaching a graduate course on case study research methodology, I look forward to incorporating Rule and John’s Handbook of Case Study Research in the Social Sciences into my curriculum. I particularly appreciate the book’s clear structure, focusing on the foundations and methodological dimensions of CSR, along with examples from various fields and disciplines. Chapter 5 by Rule and Chapter 6 by Spooner and Myres offer important insights into the relationship between CSR and theory, answering questions that frequently arise among my students. Although the chapters span many disciplines, my field of health services, systems, and policy remains unaddressed—a gap I encourage the editors to explore in future editions. Overall, a welcome addition to the CSR methodology literature!’

• Contents1 Introduction: case study research in the social sciences 1Peter RulePART I FOUNDATIONS2 Case study as meaning making 16Malcolm Tight3 Knowledge and knowing in case study research: towards a relationalepistemology 31Peter Rule and Bedrettin Yazan4 Studying a case in context 51Vaughn M. John5 Theory and theorizing in case study research 67Peter Rule6 Building theoretical frameworks from an intrinsic single case anda diverse multi-case study: a comparison 88Vivienne Spooner and Kerrin MyresPART II METHODOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS7 Multiple case study design 112Veena Vohra8 Navigating participatory methods in childhood research: a qualitativelydriven approach to case study design 131Jane Spiteri9 Case study and narrative 149Mariette Volschenk10 Case study and ethnography 172Joan M. Verd and Germán QuarantaPART III CASE STUDY IN FIELDS AND DISCIPLINES11 Case study research in education: considering possible paradoxes and concerns 194Lorna Hamilton12 The invention of the case study method in anthropology: first steps todecolonise knowledge in colonial and postcolonial societies 215Karen Sykes13 Case study research in social work 231Ian F. Shaw and Mark Hardy, with Peter Sommerfeld14 Case study research in counselling and psychotherapy 248David Edwards15 Case study research in public administration: analytical framework andsystematic review 272J.S. (Kobus) Wessels and J.N. Zongozzi16 Methodology for case studies in business ethics 302Jacob Dahl Rendtorff17 Case study at the nexus of the global and the local 310Adriana Nunez-Picado and Kirsten Martinus18 Concluding reflections on case study research and its prospects 330Vaughn M. JohnIndex 342

Edited by Peter Rule, Director of Centre for Higher and Adult Education, Department of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education, Stellenbosch University and Vaughn M. John, Professor, School of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

‘As a professor teaching a graduate course on case study research methodology, I look forward to incorporating Rule and John’s Handbook of Case Study Research in the Social Sciences into my curriculum. I particularly appreciate the book’s clear structure, focusing on the foundations and methodological dimensions of CSR, along with examples from various fields and disciplines. Chapter 5 by Rule and Chapter 6 by Spooner and Myres offer important insights into the relationship between CSR and theory, answering questions that frequently arise among my students. Although the chapters span many disciplines, my field of health services, systems, and policy remains unaddressed—a gap I encourage the editors to explore in future editions. Overall, a welcome addition to the CSR methodology literature!’

• Contents1 Introduction: case study research in the social sciences 1Peter RulePART I FOUNDATIONS2 Case study as meaning making 16Malcolm Tight3 Knowledge and knowing in case study research: towards a relationalepistemology 31Peter Rule and Bedrettin Yazan4 Studying a case in context 51Vaughn M. John5 Theory and theorizing in case study research 67Peter Rule6 Building theoretical frameworks from an intrinsic single case anda diverse multi-case study: a comparison 88Vivienne Spooner and Kerrin MyresPART II METHODOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS7 Multiple case study design 112Veena Vohra8 Navigating participatory methods in childhood research: a qualitativelydriven approach to case study design 131Jane Spiteri9 Case study and narrative 149Mariette Volschenk10 Case study and ethnography 172Joan M. Verd and Germán QuarantaPART III CASE STUDY IN FIELDS AND DISCIPLINES11 Case study research in education: considering possible paradoxes and concerns 194Lorna Hamilton12 The invention of the case study method in anthropology: first steps todecolonise knowledge in colonial and postcolonial societies 215Karen Sykes13 Case study research in social work 231Ian F. Shaw and Mark Hardy, with Peter Sommerfeld14 Case study research in counselling and psychotherapy 248David Edwards15 Case study research in public administration: analytical framework andsystematic review 272J.S. (Kobus) Wessels and J.N. Zongozzi16 Methodology for case studies in business ethics 302Jacob Dahl Rendtorff17 Case study at the nexus of the global and the local 310Adriana Nunez-Picado and Kirsten Martinus18 Concluding reflections on case study research and its prospects 330Vaughn M. JohnIndex 342