Participatory performances have long been used to invite audiences to embody, voice, and imagine the perspective of different characters, values, and viewpoints. Performances of Research: Critical Issues in K-12 Education provides a collection of performative texts that retell the lived experiences of children and youth in meaningful and engaging ways, while providing readers with an opportunity to participate in the retelling. Performances of Research is for faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students who are engaged in the study of social foundations in education, equity and...

Introduces the researcher to basic methods of gathering, analyzing and interpreting qualitative empirical materials.

'Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry' isolates the major strategies that researchers can use in conducting concrete qualitative studies.

'The Landscape of Qualitative Research' introduces the student to the historical context and background to applied qualitative research. The contributors define the 'self' and the 'other' and discuss the politics and ethics of qualitative inquiry.