Designing Qualitative Research - Hardcover

Marshall, Catherine; Rossman, Gretchen B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 141292488X ISBN 13: 9781412924887

Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc, 2006

Synopsis

'This updated edition maintains the authors' admirably practical focus - their primary aim is to offer a step by step approach to crafting a viable qualitative research proposal' - Stefan Krug, Science Direct

With expanded coverage of ethics, analysis processes and approaches, the authors have updated their bestselling text to reflect recent advances and challenges. Features in the Fourth Edition include:

- Recent thinking on `the researcher in the research setting'

- Consideration of the current political climate

- Updated references and Further Reading sections

- Postscripts at the end of each chapter that consist of a dialogue between a student and an advisor, illustrating design dilemmas in real time

- A step-by-step guide to crafting a research project from start to finish.

About this title

Review:

"The book is just fabulous, straight-forward, not lofty-but still elegant, grounded. I searched carefully for a text to support my methods, and was disappointed by many. I enjoy that the text contains relatively little jargon, clear definitions of terms in common use and the vignettes are practical." (Karen Sue Rolph 2007-07-16)

About the Author:

Catherine Marshall is Professor in the Department of Educa­tional Leadership at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Once a teacher in Rhode Island, studies and career moves include doctoral studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles,  and faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University before moving in 1991 to Chapel Hill. The ongoing goal of her teaching and re­search has been to use an interdisciplinary approach to ana­lyze cultures-of schools, state policy systems, and the professional development of adults working in organizations. She has published extensively about the politics of education, qualitative methodology, and women's access to careers as well as about the socialization, language, and values in educa­tional leadership. She is the author of Reframing Educational Politics for Social Justice, Leadership for Social Justice: Making Revolutions in Education, Culture and Education Policy in the American States and Designing Qualitative Research, and other books, as well as numerous articles on the administrative career, es­pecially the entrant, the assistant principal. 

About this edition

• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 141292488X
• ISBN 13: 9781412924887
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 280