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Title Qualitative research : an introduction to methods and designs / Stephen D. Lapan, MaryLynn T. Quartaroli, Frances Julia Riemer, editors
Edition 1st ed
Published San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 526 pages) : illustrations
Series Research methods for the social sciences
Research methods for the social sciences.
Contents Partt. 1. A Qualitative Frame of Mind: 1. Introduction to qualitative research / Stephen D. Lapan, MaryLynn T. Quartaroli, and Frances Julia Riemer; 2. Ethics in qualitative research in education and the social sciences / Donna M. Mertens; 3. Grounded theory / Robert Thornberg, Kathy Charmaz; 4. Methodology, methods, and tools in qualitative research / Jean J. Schensul -- Part 2. 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 / Tony E. Adams, Carolyn Ellis -- Part 3. Three Integrating the Disciplines: 9. Narrative inquiry: stories lived, stories told / Christine K. Lemley, Roland W. Mitchell; 10. Case study research / Tricia S. Moore, Stephen D. Lapan, MaryLynn T. Quartaroli; 11. Arts-based research / Sharon Verner Chappeli, Tom Barone; 12. Practitioner action research / Stephen D. Lapan; 13. Program evaluation / MaryLynn T. Quartaroli -- Part 4. Emancipatory Discourses: 14. Preliminary considerations of an African American culturally responsive evaluation system / Pamela Frazier-Anderson, Stafford Hood, 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 / Bryan McKinley [and others]; 18. Democratizing qualitative research / Ernest R. House
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Qualitative research.
Research -- Methodology.
Education -- Research -- Methodology
Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology
SCIENCE -- Research & Methodology.
Education -- Research -- Methodology
Qualitative research
Research -- Methodology
Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology
Qualitative Sozialforschung
Methodologie
Forschungsplanung
Sozialwissenschaften.
Forschung.
Methodologie.
Qualitative Methode.
Form Electronic book
Author Lapan, Stephen D.
Quartaroli, Marylynn T., 1950-
Riemer, Frances Julia, 1955-
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