Designing Qualitative Research - Softcover

Marshall, Catherine; Rossman, Gretchen B

Softcover

ISBN 10: 141297044X ISBN 13: 9781412970440

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2010

Synopsis

This popular text provides useful and pragmatic guidance for developing and successfully defending proposals for qualitative inquiry. The Fifth Edition addresses the advances and challenges presented by developments and new applications while providing direct guidance. Focusing on the proposal stage of research, this edition allows the reader to have a clear plan for data analysis and for the challenging varieties of final reports of qualitative inquiries.

The new edition includes expanded coverage of ethics, analysis processes, and approaches, and is full of updated vignettes that illustrate the methodological challenges that face today's qualitative researcher. This edition also includes discussions about distance-based research (such as email interviews and online discussion groups), the implications of postmodern turns, integrating archival material in qualitative research, and creative ways of presenting the research.

This text is an invaluable resource to teachers and students of research methods across disciplines and is a must for the library of those using qualitative approaches.

About this title

Review:

"This useful stand by benefits from it's latest revisions, overall an invaluable teaching resource in qualitative research methodology." (Christopher J. Lucas)

About the Author:

Catherine Marshall is Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Formerly a teacher in Rhode Island, her 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. Her teaching and research interests include the use an interdisciplinary approach to analyze school cultures, 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 (Allyn & Bacon, 2004); Leadership for Social Justice: Making Revolutions in Education, Culture and Education Policy in the American States (Allyn & Bacon, 2005); and Designing Qualitative Research, Fifth Edition (SAGE, 2010), as well as a number of other books and numerous journal articles.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 141297044X
• ISBN 13: 9781412970440
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 344