Part 1: The Social Work Agenda for Qualitative Research -- -- The social work context for qualitative research -- A review of qualitative research in social work -- -- Part 2: Exemplifying Qualitative Social Work Research -- -- Caught not taught : Ethnographic research at a young people's accommodation project / Tom Hall -- Interviewing interviewers and knowing about knowledge / Jonathan Scourfield -- Personal troubles as social issues : A narrative of infertility in context / Catherine Kohler Riessman -- 'People listened to what we had to say' : Reflections on an emancipatory qualitative evaluation / Elizabeth Whitmore -- Auto-ethnography as reflexive inquiry : The research act as self-surveillance / Sue White -- Identifying expert social work : Qualitative practitioner research / Jan Fook -- -- Part 3: Qualitative Work in Social Work -- -- Fieldwork choices in context -- Inquiry and action : Qualitative research and professional practive -- The consequences of qualitative social work research
Summary
This work examines epistemological and methodological issues in qualitative research where the agenda is set by social work practice. It provides a basis for adopting qualitative methodologies in research practice
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-224) and indexes
