Qualitative research : an introduction to methods and designs Stephen D. Lapan, MaryLynn T. Quartaroli, Frances Julia Riemer, editors - 1st ed. - San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2012. - xxviii, 526 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [473]-507) and index.

The authors-noted scholars and researchers-provide an up-to-date guide to qualitative study design, data collection, analysis, and reporting. Step by step, the authors explain a range of methodologies and methods for conducting qualitative research focusing on how they are applied when conducting an actual study. The book includes methods of data collection, specific approaches to qualitative research, and current issues in the field. Specifically, chapters cover the methods, designs, and analyses related to the methodologies of history, case study, program evaluation, ethnography, autoethnography, narrative, life histories, emancipatory discourses, feminist perspectives, African American inquiry, indigenous studies, and practitioner qualitative research.

9780470548004 0470548002 (pbk.)

2011030028

015884549 Uk


Qualitative research
Research--Methodology
Education--Research--Methodology
Social sciences--Research--Methodology

H62 / .Q83 2012

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