An Introduction to Qualitative Research
Learning in the Field
- Gretchen B. Rossman - University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
- Sharon F. Rallis - University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
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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 |
What is Learning? |
The Reflexivity of Qualitative Research |
Paradigms |
Perspective in Practice |
Dispositions and Skills |
Activities for Your Community of Practice |
Further Reading |
What Does Trustworthiness Matter? |
What Makes a Trustworthy Study? |
Systematic Practice |
Ethical Practice |
Dispositions and Skills |
Activities for Your Community of Practice |
Further Reading |
Choosing the Locus of Interest |
Ethnographic Genres |
Phenomenological Genres |
Sociolinguist Genres |
Case Studies |
Dispositions and Skills |
Activities for Your Community of Practice |
Further Reading |
Practical Considerations |
What is a Research Proposal? |
Conceptual Framework |
Design and Methods |
Dispositions and Skills |
Activities for Your Community of Practice |
Further Reading |
Preparation |
Intended Involvement |
Approach and Negotiations |
Expectations and Relationships |
Dispositions and Skills |
Activities for Your Community of Practice |
Further Reading |
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 |
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 |
Anthony's Data |
Marla's Data |
Ruth's Data |
Activities for Your Community of Practice |
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 |
Anthony's Analysis |
Ruth's Analysis |
Marla's Analysis |
Dispositions and Skills |
Activities for Your Community of Practice |
Presentation |
Voice |
An Example |
Organizing the Report |
Using the Dispositions and Skills to Generate Useful Knowledge |
Activities for Your Community of Practice |
Further Reading |
Supplements
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