Qualitative Research
An Introduction to Methods and Designs
Research Methods for the Social Sciences
1. Edition January 2012
560 Pages, Softcover
Professional Book
Short Description
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.
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.
Preface xiii
The Editors xix
The Contributors xxi
Part One A Qualitative Frame of Mind
1 Introduction to Qualitative Research 3
Stephen D. Lapan, MaryLynn T. Quartaroli, and Frances Julia Riemer
2 Ethics in Qualitative Research in Education and the Social Sciences 19
Donna M. Mertens
3 Grounded Theory 41
Robert Thornberg, Kathy Charmaz
4 Methodology, Methods, and Tools in Qualitative Research 69
Jean J. Schensul
Part Two Drawing on the Disciplines
5 Biography and Life Story Research 107
Cynthia E. Winston
6 Mystery Solved: Detective Skills and the Historian's Craft 137
Laurie Moses Hines
7 Ethnographic Research 163
Frances Julia Riemer
8 Trekking Through Autoethnography 189
Tony E. Adams, Carolyn Ellis
Part Three Integrating the Disciplines
9 Narrative Inquiry: Stories Lived, Stories Told 215
Christine K. Lemley, Roland W. Mitchell
10 Case Study Research 243
Tricia S. Moore, Stephen D. Lapan, MaryLynn T. Quartaroli
11 Arts-Based Research 271
Sharon Verner Chappell, Tom Barone
12 Practitioner Action Research 291
Stephen D. Lapan
13 Program Evaluation 321
MaryLynn T. Quartaroli
Part Four Emancipatory Discourses
14 Preliminary Considerations of an African American Culturally Responsive Evaluation System 347
Pamela Frazier-Anderson, Stafford Hood, Rodney K. Hopson
15 What Makes Critical Ethnography "Critical"? 373
Angelina E. Castagno
16 Feminist Research 391
Lucy E. Bailey
17 Reclaiming Scholarship: Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies 423
Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Heather R. Gough, Beth Leonard, Roy F. Roehl II, Jessica A. Solyom
18 Democratizing Qualitative Research 451
Ernest R. House
References 473
Index 509
MaryLynn T. Quartaroli, PhD, is Project Director of the NEXUS Math/Science NAU grant for Science Foundation Arizona. She is also evaluating programs funded by the U.S, Department of Education in projects as diverse as the Math Science Partnership and the Carol M. White Physical Education Program.
Frances Julia Riemer, PhD, is Associate Professor in the College of Education at Northern Arizona University and Director of the University's Women and Gender Studies Program. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award, a dissertation fellowship from the Spencer Foundation, a post-doctoral fellowship from the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, and an Elva Knight research grant from the International Reading Association.
