Conversations About Group Concept Mapping Applications, Examples, and Enhancements By Mary Kane

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.

Chapter 1. Simple Rules for Constructing Group Knowledge: The What and How of GCM
Chapter 2. GCM in Action: Capturing Knowledge, Valuing Participation
Chapter 3. GCM in Action: Analyzing for Results, Producing the Map
Chapter 4. Conversations on Group Concept Mapping With Guest Researchers: Introduction
Chapter 5. A Conversation on Needs of At-Risk African American Youth in Chicago
Chapter 6. A Conversation on Regional Economic Development and Cultural Entrepreneurship
Chapter 7. A Conversation on the Future of Learning: New Ways to Learn New Skills for Future Jobs
Chapter 8. A Conversation on Promoting Readiness for Living, Learning, and Working for Youth Who Have Disabilities Who Receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
Chapter 9. Synthesis: What We’ve Learned
Chapter 10. Forward