Gretchen B Rossman, Sharon F Rallis

An Introduction to Qualitative Research

Learning in the Field

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book leads the new researcher into the field by explaining the core concepts through theory, research and applied examples. This Fourth Edition now provides boxes that include real-world examples; new content on using social media, blogs, and doing research online; and more international examples.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Inc
• 4 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 189mm x 236mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 574g
• ISBN-13: 9781506307930
• ISBN-10: 1506307930
• Artikelnr.: 44157544

Autorenporträt

Gretchen B. Rossman is Professor Emerita of International Education and the Center for International Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She received her PhD in education from the University of Pennsylvania, with a specialization in higher-education administration. She has served as a visiting professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education. Prior to coming to the University of Massachusetts, she was senior research associate at Research for Better Schools in Philadelphia. With an international reputation as a qualitative methodologist, she has expertise in qualitative research design and methods, mixed-methods monitoring and evaluation, and inquiry in education. Over the past 30+ years, she has coauthored 15 books, 2 of which are editions of major qualitative research texts (Learning in the Field, third edition, with Sharon F. Rallis, and the present seventh edition of Designing Qualitative Research, with Catherine Marshall and Gerardo L. Blanco-both widely used guides for qualitative inquiry). In addition, she has published a book titled The Research Journey: An Introduction to Inquiry (with Sharon Rallis). She has also authored or coauthored more than 50 articles, book chapters, and technical reports focused on methodological issues in qualitative research synthesis, mixed-methods evaluation, and ethical research practice, as well as the analysis and evaluation of educational reform efforts both in the United States and internationally. Professor Rossman has served as principal investigator (PI) or co-PI on several large U.S. Agency for International Development-funded projects (in Palestine, the Southern Sudan, Malawi, Tanzania, and India); as co-PI on a World Bank-funded multigrade schooling project (Senegal and Gambia); as lead trainer for a Save the Children-funded participatory monitoring and evaluation of professional training (Azerbaijan); and as external evaluator on several domestic projects, including a Department of Education-funded reform initiative, a National Science Foundation-funded middle-grades science initiative, and a number of projects implementing more inclusive practices for students with disabilities.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Qualitative Research as Learning Doing Qualitative Research: Tales of Three Characters Defining Qualitative Research Common Characteristics Typical Purposes and Overall Approaches The Characters
Choices Ways of Using Research Dispositions and Skills Overview of the Book Activities for Your Community of Practice Further Reading 2. The Researcher as Learner What is Learning? The Reflexivity of Qualitative Research Paradigms Perspective in Practice Dispositions and Skills Activities for Your Community of Practice Further Reading 3. The Researcher as Competent and Ethical What Does Trustworthiness Matter? What Makes a Trustworthy Study? Systematic Practice Ethical Practice Dispositions and Skills Activities for Your Community of Practice Further Reading 4. Major Qualitative Research Genres Choosing the Locus of Interest Ethnographic Genres Phenomenological Genres Sociolinguist Genres Case Studies Dispositions and Skills Activities for Your Community of Practice Further Reading 5. Conceptualizing and Planning the Research Practical Considerations What is a Research Proposal? Conceptual Framework Design and Methods Dispositions and Skills Activities for Your Community of Practice Further Reading 6. Entering the Field Preparation Intended Involvement Approach and Negotiations Expectations and Relationships Dispositions and Skills Activities for Your Community of Practice Further Reading 7. Gathering Data in the Field Decisions About Gathering Data Systematic Inquiry Generic In-Depth Interviewing Specialized In-Depth Interviewing Special Considerations Observing People, Actions, and Events Studying Material Culture Dispositions and Skills Activities for Your Community of Practice Further Reading 8. Issues That Arise in the Field How Do I Prepare to Gather Data? How Can I Get Comfortable in the Field? What are the Data? How Do I Turn Sights, Sounds, and Objects Into Data? Two Languages: Which Do I Use? How Can I Change My Research Plan? What Do I Reflect On? How Do I Leave the Field? Dispositions and Skills Activities for Your Community of Practice Further Reading 9. Our Character
s Data Anthony
s Data Marläs Data Ruth
s Data Activities for Your Community of Practice 10. Analyzing and Interpreting Data Analysis Happens Generic Analysis Writing In-Process Analytic Memos Strategies for Analyzing Interview Data Strategies for Analyzing Field Notes From Observations Strategies for Analyzing Material Culture Dispositions and Skills Activities for Your Community of Practice Further Reading 11. Our Characters
Analyses Anthony
s Analysis Ruth
s Analysis Marläs Analysis Dispositions and Skills Activities for Your Community of Practice 12. Presenting the Learnings Presentation Voice An Example Organizing the Report Using the Dispositions and Skills to Generate Useful Knowledge Activities for Your Community of Practice Further Reading