Inside Stories: Qualitative Research Reflections

by deMarrais; Kathleen B.

• ISBN13: 9780805880380
• ISBN10: 0805880380
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781136505829
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-06-01
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Essays by people who have engaged in various qualitative research projects, describing their experiences with methodological and ethical struggles & the issues that emerged during their research process.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Gold Mining History in Search of Personal Understanding	p. 1
Precipitating Myself into Just Manageable Difficulties: Reflections on Constructing an Intellectual Biography of Nicholas Hobbs	p. 9
Traveling Light: A Student's Guide to Packing for Qualitative Research	p. 23
The Role of the Applied Anthropologist: Between Schools and the Navajo Nation	p. 35
Activist or Ethnographer? Researchers, Teachers, and Voice in Ethnographies That Critique	p. 49
Personal Reflections on the Process: The Role of the Researcher and Transformative Research	p. 59
"Studying Up" in Educational Anthropology	p. 67
Revisiting Juanita's Beauty Salon: An Ethnographic Study of an African-American Beauty Shop	p. 79
Mucking Around in the Mud: Doing Ethnography With Yup'ik Eskimo Girls	p. 87
Tracing Literacy Across Three Generations ... Trying Not to Lose the Voices	p. 97
You Never Know When You Might Want To Be a Redhead in Belize	p. 111
Interviewing the Incarcerated: Personal Notes on Ethical and Methodological Issues	p. 127
How Close Is Close Enough?: Reflections on the Experience of Doing Phenomenology	p. 139
Teacher-Researcher: A Long and Winding Road From the Public School to the University	p. 151
Reflections on Collaborative, and Not-So-Collaborative, Research in Early Childhood Settings	p. 161
Who Is Taking Risks? Moving Toward Collaborative Research	p. 173
Incomplete Stories	p. 185
Synonyms and Sequences: The Development of an Intellectual Autobiography	p. 197
Author Index	p. 211
Subject Index	p. 215
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