New Approaches to Qualitative Research: Wisdom and Uncertainty

by Savin-Baden; Maggi

• ISBN13: 9780415572415
• ISBN10: 041557241X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-05-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The authors take the stance that qualitative research is a broad approach that encompasses and encourages difference and uncertainty, and provide a routemap to this uncertain but fruitful line of inquiry.

Author Biography

Maggi Savin-Baden is Professor of Higher Education Research at Coventry University, UK.
Claire Howell Major is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Alabama, US.

Table of Contents

Figures and tables	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Notes on the contributors	p. xi
Preface	p. xv
Introduction: The uncertainty of wisdom	p. 1
Stances	p. 7
Positioning positionality: the reflexive turn	p. 9
Values and virtues in qualitative research	p. 19
Relocating truths in the qualitative research paradigm	p. 28
Imagining intersectionality and the spaces in between: theories and processes of socially transformative knowing	p. 37
Taking a stance: socially responsible ethics and informed consent	p. 49
Methodologies and methods	p. 59
Writing ethnodrama: a sampler from educational research	p. 61
Narrative theory and the construction of qualitative texts	p. 70
Multimodality, visual methodologies and higher education	p. 80
Participatory action research: an integrated approach towards professional practice development	p. 89
Deliberative inquiry	p. 100
Qualitative research synthesis: the scholarship of integration in practice	p. 108
Places and spaces	p. 119
Locating space in qualitative research: questioning culture through the corporeal	p. 121
Listening spaces: connecting diverse voices for social action and change	p. 131
The politics of space in qualitative research	p. 145
Urban ethnography: approaches, perspectives and challenges	p. 154
Researching in immersive spaces	p. 162
Afterword	p. 172
Glossary	p. 174
Index	p. 179
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