The role of the school in the assimilation of immigrant children

  Case study Order Description   Both Merriam (Chapter 9—The role of the school in the assimilation of immigrant children) and Creswell (Appendix F: p.337--Campus response to a student gunman) explore with the reader the case study approach to qualitative inquiry. Scrutinize either of these readings as examples of case studies. Write 3-4 pages about what makes either a case study? What frameworks and methodologies do their authors use? How do they employ the ideas of the researchers on case study? What is the case—the entity for the study? What is it bounded by? What type of case study does the author propose? What are their findings or themes? How do they draw their conclusions? Reminder: this assignment is an X-ray of the chapters in the Merriam or Creswell texts—it is NOT meant as a summary of the chapter or as another explanation of the findings of each of the chapters. Rather it is an analysis of the process used by the authors to demonstrate the characteristics of writing a case study, and it is precisely those characteristics I am interested in you analyzing. For example, your assignment may simply answer the questions I have raised in this assignment, or you may develop your own structure to analyze their structure. Do this assignment as a group and present with a paper 3 pages.