Joseph A. Maxwell

Qualitative Research Design

An Interactive Approach

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book gives researchers and students a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to planning qualitative research. Based on a course that the author taught for 7 years at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, it is written in an informal, jargon-free style and incorporates many examples and hands-on exercises. Rather than the rigid, linear approach to design usually found in research methods textbooks, which is particularly unsuited to qualitative research, the book presents a flexible, systemic model of design. This model not only better fits what experienced qualitative researchers actually do, but provides a clear framework for designing a study and developing a research proposal. This edition includes new or substantially expanded discussions of research paradigms, defining a research problem, site and participant selection, relationships with research participants, data analysis, and validity, as well as more examples and exercises.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9780761926078
• ISBN-10: 0761926070
• Artikelnr.: 22116875

Autorenporträt

Joseph A. Maxwell is a Professor in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University, where he teaches courses on research design and methods and on writing a dissertation proposal. He has published work on qualitative research and evaluation, mixed method research, sociocultural theory, Native American social organization, and medical education. He has also worked extensively in applied settings. He has presented seminars and workshops on teaching qualitative research methods and on using qualitative methods in various applied fields, and has been an invited speaker at conferences and universities in the United States, Puerto Rico, Europe, and China. He has a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Preface to the First Edition 1. A Model for Qualitative Research
Design 2. Goals: Why Are You Doing This Study? 3. Conceptual Framework:
What Do You Think Is Going On? 4. Research Questions: What Do You Want to
Understand? 5. Methods: What Will You Actually Do? 6. Validity: How Might
You Be Wrong? 7. Research Proposals: Presenting and Justifying a
Qualitative Study Appendix: An Example of a Qualitative Proposal References
Index About the Author

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Chapter 1. A Model for Qualitative Research Design
Chapter 2. Goals: Why Are You Doing This Study?
Chapter 3. Conceptual Framework: What Do You Think Is Going On?
Chapter 4. Research Questions: What Do You Want to Understand?
Chapter 5. Methods: What Will You Actually Do?
Chapter 6. Validity: How Might You Be Wrong?
Chapter 7. Research Proposals: Presenting and Justifying a Qualitative Study
Appendix A. A Proposal for a Study of Medical School Teaching
Appendix B. A Proposal for a Study of Online Learning by Teachers

Rezensionen

"This book uses everyday language that will captivate students' attention and embed practical knowledge to supplement the technical."
Gaetane Jean-Marie