Chapter 1: Introduction | |
Purpose | |
What Is New in This Edition | |
Rationale for This Book | |
Selection of the Five Approaches | |
Positioning Myself | |
Audience | |
Organization | |
Philosophical, Paradigmatic, and Interpretive Frameworks | |
Questions for Discussion | |
Philosophical Assumptions | |
Paradigms or Worldviews | |
Interpretive Communities | |
Summary | |
Additional Readings | |
Exercises | |
Designing a Qualitative Study | |
Questions for Discussion | |
The Characteristics of Qualitative Research | |
When to Use Qualitative Research | |
The Process of Designing a Qualitative Study | |
The General Structure of a Plan or Proposal | |
Summary | |
Additional Readings | |
Exercises | |
Five Qualitative Approaches to Inquiry | |
Questions for Discussion | |
Narrative Research | |
Phenomenological Research | |
Grounded Theory Research | |
Ethnographic Research | |
Case Study Research | |
The Five Approaches Compared | |
Summary | |
Additional Readings | |
Exercises | |
Five Different Qualitative Studies | |
Questions for Discussion | |
A Narrative-Biographical Study (Angrosino, 1994) | |
A Phenomenological Study (Anderson & Spencer, 2002) | |
A Grounded Theory Study (Morrow & Smith, 1995) | |
An Ethnographic Study (Haenfler, 2004) | |
A Case Study (Asmussen & Creswell, 1995) | |
Differences Among the Approaches | |
Summary | |
Additional Readings | |
Exercises | |
Chapter 6: Introducing and Focusing the Study | |
Questions for Discussion | |
The Research Problem | |
The Purpose Statement | |
The Research Questions | |
Summary | |
Additional Readings | |
Exercises | |
Data Collection | |
Questions for Discussion | |
The Data Collection Circle | |
The Site or Individual | |
Access and Rapport | |
Purposeful Sampling Strategy | |
Forms of Data | |
Recording Procedures | |
Field Issues | |
Storing Data | |
Five Approaches Compared | |
Summary | |
Additional Readings | |
Exercises | |
Data Analysis and Representation | |
Questions for Discussion | |
Three Analysis Strategies | |
The Data Analysis Spiral | |
Analysis Within Approaches to Inquiry | |
Summary | |
Additional Readings | |
Exercises | |
Writing a Qualitative Study | |
Questions for Discussion | |
Several Rhetorical Issues | |
Narrative Research Structure | |
Phenomenological Structure | |
Grounded Theory Structure | |
Ethnographic Structure | |
Case Study Structure | |
A Comparison of Narrative Structure | |
Summary | |
Additional Readings | |
Exercises | |
Standards of Validation and Evaluation | |
Questions for Discussion | |
Validation and Reliability in Qualitative Research | |
Evaluation Criteria | |
Summary | |
Additional Readings | |
Exercises | |
"Turning the Story" and Conclusions | |
Turning the Story | |
A Case Study | |
A Narrative Study | |
A Phenomenology | |
A Grounded Theory Study | |
An Ethnography | |
Conclusion | |
Exercises | |
Glossary of Terms | |
A Narrative Research Study | |
A Phenomenological Study | |
An Ethnography | |
A Case Study | |
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