Qualitative Research for Education: An Introduction to Theory and Methods

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Allyn and Bacon, 2003 - Education - 291 pages

This concise, applied, and very clearly written introduction to qualitative research methods can be used effectively in a semester, or year-long course.

The purpose of this introductory-level text is to provide the reader with a background for understanding the uses of qualitative research in education (and other professions) to examine its theoretical and historical underpinnings, and to provide the "how-to's" of doing qualitative research. This new edition places qualitative research within current debates about research methods and alternative ways of knowing. While the authors approach the subject from a sociological perspective, they also take care to reflect the many changes in conceptualization of qualitative research brought by post-structural and feminist thought.

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Contents

Traditions of Qualitative Research
7
Theoretical Underpinnings
21
Eleven Common Questions about Qualitative Research
32
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