Qualitative Research : An Introduction to Methods and Designs

The authors—noted scholars and researchers—provide an up-to-date guide to qualitative study design, data collection, analysis, and reporting. Step by step, the authors explain a range of methodologies and methods for conducting qualitative research focusing on how they are applied when conducting an actual study. The book includes methods of data collection, specific approaches to qualitative research, and current issues in the field. Specifically, chapters cover the methods, designs, and analyses related to the methodologies of history, case study, program evaluation, ethnography, autoethnography, narrative, life histories, emancipatory discourses, feminist perspectives, African American inquiry, indigenous studies, and practitioner qualitative research. Machine Generated Contents Note: Pt. One A Qualitative Frame Of Mind -- 1.introduction To Qualitative Research / Frances Julia Riemer -- 2.ethics In Qualitative Research In Education And The Social Sciences / Donna M. Mertens -- 3.grounded Theory / Kathy Charmaz -- 4.methodology, Methods, And Tools In Qualitative Research / Jean J. Schensul -- Pt. Two Drawing On The Disciplines -- 5.biography And Life Story Research / Cynthia E. Winston -- 6.mystery Solved: Detective Skills And The Historian's Craft / Laurie Moses Hines -- 7.ethnographic Research / Frances Julia Riemer -- 8.trekking Through Autoethnography / Carolyn Ellis -- Pt. Three Integrating The Disciplines -- 9.narrative Inquiry: Stories Lived, Stories Told / Roland W. Mitchell -- 10.case Study Research / Mary Lynn T. Quartaroli -- 11.arts-based Research / Tom Barone -- 12.practitioner Action Research / Stephen D. Lapan -- 13.program Evaluation / Mary Lynn T. Quartaroli -- Pt. Four Emancipatory Discourses -- 14.preliminary Considerations Of An African American Culturally Responsive Evaluation System / Rodney K. Hopson -- 15.what Makes Critical Ethnography Critical? / Angelina E. Castagno -- 16.feminist Research / Lucy E. Bailey -- 17.reclaiming Scholarship: Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies / Jessica A. Solyom -- 18.democratizing Qualitative Research / Ernest R. House. Stephen D. Lapan, Marylynn T. Quartaroli, Frances Julia Riemer, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [473]-507) And Index. The authors noted scholars and researchers provide an up-to-date guide to qualitative study design, data collection, analysis, and reporting. Step by step, the authors explain a range of methodologies and methods for conducting qualitative research focusing on how they are applied when conducting an actual study.