Reviewing Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences

ISBN-13: 9780415893503 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 236 str.

Audrey A Trainor

Opis

This text provides a useful guide for researchers, reviewers, and consumers who are charged with judging the quality of qualitative studies. In order to embrace the challenges and controversies that accompany this goal, the editors have solicited experts representing multiple disciplines and methods of qualitative inquiry.

Spis treści

Forward James Scheurich Chapter 1: Introduction Audrey Trainor and Elizabeth Graue Chapter 2: Standing at the corner of epistemology ave, theoretical trail and methodology blvd: Intersections in qualitative research Elizabeth Graue and Anne Karabon Chapter 3: Action Research Randy Stoecker and Mary Brydon-Miller Chapter 4: Autoethnography Chris Poulos Chapter 5: Case Studies Catherine Compton-Lilly Chapter 6: Critical Discourse Analysis Rebecca Rogers Chapter 7: Ethnography Nancy Kendall and Miriam Thangaraj Chapter 8: Grounded Theory Antony Bryant Chapter 9: Interview Research Audrey A. Trainor Chapter 10: Mixed Methods Donna Mertens Chapter 11: Oral History, Life History, and Biography Valerie Janesick  Chapter 12: Narrative Research Jean Clandinin Chapter 13: Phenomenology Eileen Porter and Marlene Z. Cohen  Chapter 14: Poetics and Performance Monica Prendergastand and George Belliveau Chapter 15: Positional and Identity-Based Theories Adrienne Dixson and Vanessa Dodo

O autorze

About the Editors -- Audrey Trainor and Beth Graue have been interdepartmental colleagues at the University of Wisconsin, Madison for 7 years. Together with their colleagues and co-members of the Qualitative Research Committee in the School of Education, they have designed a qualitative research minor for doctoral students. Both are members of QSIG, the qualitative research special interest group of the American Education Research Association. Beth is a former chair of QSIG.