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Summary
Summary
This concise, applied, and very clearly written introduction to qualitative research methods can be used effectively in a semester, or year-long course. The purpose of this introductory-level text is to provide the reader with a background for understanding the uses of qualitative research in education to examine its theoretical and historical underpinnings, and to provide the "how-to's" of doing qualitative research. This new edition places qualitative research within current debates about research methods and alternative ways of knowing. While the authors approach the subject from a sociological perspective, they also take care to reflect the many changes in conceptualization of qualitative research brought by post-structural and feminist thought.
Table of Contents
1 Foundations of Qualitative Research in Education: An Introduction |
Characteristics of Qualitative Research |
Traditions of Qualitative Research |
Theoretical Underpinnings |
Ten Common Questions About Qualitative Research |
Ethics |
What Is to Come |
2 Research Design |
Choosing a Study |
Case Studies |
Multi-Site Studies |
Additional Issues Related to Design |
Concluding Remarks |
3 Fieldwork |
Gaining Access |
First Days in the Field |
The Participant/Observer Continuum |
Doing Fieldwork in Another Culture |
Researcher Characteristics and Special Problems with Rapport |
Be Discreet |
Research in Politically Charged and Conflict-Ridden Settings |
Feelings |
How Long Should an Observation Session Be? Interviewing |
Visual Recording and Fieldwork |
Triangulation |
Leaving the Field |
4 Qualitative Data |
Some Friendly Advice |
Fieldnotes |
The Process of Writing Fieldnotes |
Transcripts from Taped Interviews |
Documents |
Photography |
Official Statistics and Other Quantitative Data |
Concluding Remarks |
5 Data Analysis |
Analysis in the Field |
Analysis After Data Collection |
The Mechanics of Working with Data |
Concluding Remarks |
6 Writing It Up |
Writing Choices |
More Writing Tips |
Criteria for Evaluating Writing |
Texts |
A Final Point About Getting Started |
7 Applied Qualitative Research for Education |
Evaluation and Policy Research |
Action Research |
Practitioner Uses of Qualitative Research |
Appendix A Examples of Observational Questions for Educational Settings |
Appendix B Examples of Fieldnotes |
Glossary |
References |
Index |