Acts of Inquiry in Qualitative Research

by Brizuela, Barbara; Stewart, Julie Pearson; Carrillo, Romina G.; Berger, Jennifer Garvey

• ISBN13: 9780916690366
• ISBN10: 0916690369
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Harvard Educational Pub Group

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Part One: ``Habits of Thought and Work''	1	(72)
The Turn Inward in Qualitative Research	3	(14)
Reba N. Page
The Use of Anthropological Methods in Educational Research: Two Perspectives	17	(10)
George Spindler
Lorie Hammond
Linguistics in the Study of Language in Education	27	(10)
Shirley Brice Heath
Sociology and Qualitative Methodologies in Educational Research	37	(14)
Mary Haywood Metz
When Methods Matter: Qualitative Research Issues in Psychology	51	(10)
Annie G. Rogers
Knowing Teaching: The Intersection of Research on Teaching and Qualitative Research	61	(12)
Magdalene Lampert
Part Two: Ethics and Validity	73	(74)
The Colonizer/Colonized Chicana Ethnographer: Identity, Marginalization, and Co-optation in the Field	75	(20)
Sofia Villenas
Educative Research, Voice, and School Change	95	(24)
Andrew David Gitlin
Validation in Inquiry-Guided Research: The Role of Exemplars in Narrative Studies	119	(28)
Elliot G. Mishler
Part Three: The Relationships between the Researcher and the Participants	147	(82)
Voice, Play, and a Practice of Ordinary Courage in Girls' and Women's Lives	149	(28)
Annie G. Rogers
Teacher-Researcher Collaboration from Two Perspectives	177	(30)
Polly Ulichny
Wendy Schoener
Appearing Acts: Creating Readers in a High School English Class	207	(22)
Joan Kernan Cone
Part Four: Data Collection	229	(62)
Reframing Classroom Research: A Lesson from the Private World of Children	231	(34)
Adrienne Alton-Lee
Graham Nuthall
John Patrick
Understanding Reading Disability: A Case Study Approach	265	(26)
Peter H. Johnston
Part Five: Data Analysis and Interpretation	291	(62)
``To Take Them at Their World'': Language Data in the Study of Teachers' Knowledge	293	(28)
Donald Freeman
Reporting Ethnography to Informants	321	(32)
Reba N. Page
Yvette J. Samson
Michele D. Crockett
Part Six: The Uses of Research	353	(78)
Lessons from Students on Creating a Chance to Dream	355	(34)
Sonia Nieto
Researching Change and Changing the Researcher	389	(22)
Concha Delgado-Gaitan
Good Readers, Good Teachers? Subject Matter Expertise as a Challenge in Learning to Teach	411	(20)
Diane Holt-Reynolds
About the Authors	431	(4)
About the Editors	435