1st Edition

The Methodological Dilemma Creative, critical and collaborative approaches to qualitative research

Edited By Kathleen Gallagher Copyright 2008
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

This thought-provoking book challenges the way research is planned and undertaken and equips researchers with a variety of creative and imaginative solutions to the dilemmas of method and representation that plague qualitative research. Fascinating and inspiring reading for any researcher in the Social Sciences this comprehensive collection encourages the reader to imagine the world in evermore... Read more

Introduction  Part I: Representation and Contexts  1.The Politics of Making Claims: Challenges of Qualitative Web-Based Research, Megan Boler  2.Linking Global Trends and Local Lives: Mapping the Methodological Dilemmas, Kiran Mirchandani and Roxana Ng  3.Coming to Terms: Methodological and Other Dilemmas in Research, Kari Dehli  4.The Art of Methodology: A Collaborative Science, Kathleen Gallagher  Part II: Representation and Relationships  5.Performed Ethnography: Possibilities, Multiple Commitments, and the Pursuit of Rigour, Tara Goldstein  6. Moving Towards Postcolonial, Digital Methods in Qualitative Research: Contexts, Cameras, and Relationships, Kathleen Gallagher and Isabelle Kim  7. A Measure of Trust in an Era of Distrust: Informed Consent Meets Critical Analysis, Jane Gaskell  8.Finding Form for Curriculum Research, Madeleine Grumet, Amy Anderson and Chris Osmond  Part III: Representation and Bodies  9. ‘Naked Truths’?: Ethnographic Dilemmas of Doing Research on the Body in Social Spaces, Caroline Fusco  10.Exploring Historicity and Temporality in Social Science Methodology: A Case for Analytical and Methodological Justice, Jo-Anne Dillabough  11.Getting Lost: Critiquing Across Difference as Methodological Practice, Patti Lather  12.Writing on cellophane: Studying Teen Women’s Sexual Desires, Inventing Methodological Release Points, Sara McClelland and Michelle Fine

Biography

Kathleen Gallagher is Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Urban School Research in Pedagogy and Policy, and the Academic Director of the Centre for Urban Schooling at the University of Toronto.