1st Edition
Foundations for Research Methods of Inquiry in Education and the Social Sciences
448 Pages
by
Routledge
448 Pages
by
Routledge
448 Pages
by
Routledge
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Designed for introductory research courses in the professional fields and social sciences, this text acquaints students and beginning researchers with a broad view of research methodologies and an understanding of the assumptions that inform each of these approaches. More experienced researchers will also find the book useful in acquainting them with methodologies and theoretical frameworks that... Read more
Contents: Preface. K. deMarrais, S.D. Lapan, Introduction. K. Tisdale, Being Vulnerable and Being Ethical With/in Research. K. Rousmaniere, Historical Research. K. deMarrais, Qualitative Interview Studies: Learning Through Experience. D.L. Kain, Owning Significance: The Critical Incident Technique in Research. P.B. Kleiber, Focus Groups: More Than a Method of Qualitative Inquiry. M.K. Kramp, Exploring Life and Experience Through Narrative Inquiry. J. Johnson-Bailey, Enjoining Positionality and Power in Narrative Work: Balancing Contentious and Modulating Forces. K.J. Roulston, Ethnomethodological and Conversation Analytic Studies. J. Preissle, L. Grant, Fieldwork Traditions: Ethnography and Participant Observation. G.W. Noblit, Reinscribing Critique in Educational Ethnography: Critical and Postcritical Ethnography. P. Lather, Critical Inquiry in Qualitative Research: Feminist and Poststructural Perspectives: Science "After Truth." P.A. Hays, Case Study Research. S.D. Lapan, Evaluation Studies. G. Garaway, Participatory Evaluation. P.A. Schutz, C.B. Chambless, J.T. DeCuir, Multimethods Research. S.R. Hutchinson, Survey Research. K.A. Sealander, Single-Subject Experimental Research: An Overview for Practitioners. L.H. Cross, G.M. Belli, Experimental Research to Inform Educational Policy. E.R. House, Using Multiple Methodologies: The Case of Retention in Chicago.
Biography
deMarrais, Kathleen B.; Lapan, Stephen D.
