Foundations for Research; Methods of Inquiry in Education and the Social Sciences

by deMarrais, Kathleen B.; deMarrais, Kathleen; Lapan, Stephen D.

• ISBN13: 9781410609373
• ISBN10: 1410609375
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: LEA, Inc.

Summary

Acquaints students and beginning researchers with a broad view of research methodologies and the assumptions that informs each approach. Text for introductory research courses in the professional fields and social sciences.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
1 Introduction	1	(12)
Kathleen deMarrais and Stephen D. Lapan
2 Being Vulnerable and Being Ethical With/in Research	13	(18)
Kit Tisdale
3 Historical Research	31	(20)
Kate Rousmaniere
4 Qualitative Interview Studies: Learning Through Experience	51	(18)
Kathleen deMarrais
5 Owning Significance: The Critical Incident Technique in Research	69	(18)
Daniel L. Kain
6 Focus Groups: More Than a Method of Qualitative Inquiry	87	(16)
Pamela B. Kleiber
7 Exploring Life and Experience Through Narrative Inquiry	103	(20)
Mary Kay Kramp
8 Enjoining Positionality and Power in Narrative Work: Balancing Contentious and Modulating Forces	123	(16)
Juanita Johnson-Bailey
9 Ethnomethodological and Conversation Analytic Studies	139	(22)
Kathryn J. Roulston
10 Fieldwork Traditions: Ethnography and Participant Observation	161	(20)
Judith Preissle and Linda Grant
11 Reinscribing Critique in Educational Ethnography: Critical and Postcritical Ethnography	181	(22)
George W. Noblit
12 Critical Inquiry in Qualitative Research: Feminist and Poststructural Perspectives: Science "After Truth"	203	(14)
Patti Lather
13 Case Study Research	217	(18)
Patricia A. Hays
14 Evaluation Studies	235	(14)
Stephen D. Lapah
15 Participatory Evaluation	249	(18)
Gila Garaway
16 Multimethods Research	267	(16)
Paul A. Schutz, Courtney B. Chambless, and Jessica T. DeCuir
17 Survey Research	283	(20)
Susan R. Hutchinson
18 Single-Subject Experimental Research: An Overview for Practitioners	303	(26)
Karen A. Sealander
19 Experimental Research to Inform Educational Policy	329	(24)
Lawrence H. Cross and Gabriella M. Belli
20 Using Multiple Methodologies: The Case of Retention in Chicago	353	(18)
Ernest R. House
References	371	(40)
Author Index	411	(10)
Subject Index	421