Qualitative Research: Analyzing Life - Softcover

Omasta, Matt; Saldana, Johnny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1506305490 ISBN 13: 9781506305493

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2017

Synopsis

This innovative text explores qualitative research through a unique analytic lens and elaborates on methods in each chapter, showing that analysis is – in its broadest sense – a process undertaken throughout the entire research experience. Renowned authors Johnny Saldana and Matt Omasta prepare readers to work strategically with their empirical materials in their own fieldwork.

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Review:

“Very accessible and comprehensive text with a unique approach to teaching qualitative research.” (Sharon Lynn Casapulla)

“Qualitative Research: Analyzing Life presents students with the most important dimensions of qualitative research through a unique analytic lens. It offers students an intimate exploration of the fascinating world of naturalistic inquiry through a nuanced examination of material essential to their success as qualitative researchers.” (Nathan R. Durdella)

“Johnny Saldaña and Matt Omasta flawlessly weave together powerful examples, valuable sample material, and complex ideas to create a methods text for everyone. It both enriches and demystifies the work of qualitative researchers.” (Sally Campbell Galman)

“This book is exceptional and unique for starting with the basics of doing analysis in the first chapter and then having each chapter add further analysis as more qualitative methods are discussed. I know students will love it.” (Karla B. Hackstaff)

“The authors provide accessibility to the topic of scientific research practices for the student qualitative researcher. [Qualitative Research: Analyzing Life] provides interesting activities and nicely articulated step-by-step instructions on major areas of focus including interviewing, coding, and analysis.” (Kristina N. Kahl)

“This is a creative and deeply explanatory text that takes new qualitative researchers through the depths of doing methods work.” (Lauren Moret)

“This book offers a refreshing approach to teaching qualitative research that will most certainly give students a deeper understanding of what it means to engage in qualitative inquiry.” (Eric D. Teman)

“Saldaña and Omasta have written a user-friendly, comprehensive text with enlightening examples for those desiring to learn how to become qualitative researchers. They remind us at every turn that each aspect of the process is analytical, and they provide the necessary tools for us to be thoughtful, creative, and consistent in our choices as researchers from start to finish.” (Silvia Bettez)

“Saldaña and Omasta’s Analyzing Life provides a text for both emerging and experienced scholars.  Through their methodological examples, ontological thinking, and theoretical guiding, this book demystifies the process of analyzing qualitative data.” (Cassie F. Quigley,)

“This book marks an important transition in the teaching of qualitative research methods by emphasizing in a clear and practical way the importance of analytic insight throughout the research process.” (Rachel Campbell)

About the Author:

Johnny Saldaña is Professor Emeritus of Theatre from the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts’ School of Film, Dance, and Theatre at Arizona State University. He has been involved in the field of theatre as a teacher educator, director, playwright, and qualitative researcher. Saldaña’s research methods have been used and cited internationally for studies in K-12 and higher education, the fine arts, business, technology, social sciences, government, social services, communication, human development, sport, health care, and medicine. He is the author of Longitudinal Qualitative Research: Analyzing Change Through Time (AltaMira Press, 2003), recipient of the 2004 Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association’s Ethnography Division; Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre (AltaMira Press, 2005), an edited collection of ethnographic-based plays; The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers (Sage Publications, 2009; second edition, 2013), a handbook on qualitative data analysis; Fundamentals of Qualitative Research (Oxford University Press, 2011), a commissioned introductory textbook and volume one of the Understanding Qualitative Research series; Ethnotheatre: Research from Page to Stage (Left Coast Press, 2011), a playwriting primer for performance ethnography and recipient of the American Educational Research Association’s Qualitative Research Special Interest Group’s 2012 Outstanding Book Award; and Qualitative Data Analysis: A Methods Sourcebook, third edition (Sage Publications, 2014), a commissioned update and revision of the late Matthew B. Miles and A. Michael Huberman’s second edition (1994) book, Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expanded Sourcebook.

Matt Omasta is Associate Professor and Theatre Education Program Director at Utah State University. He received his BA from Ithaca College, his MA from Emerson College, and his PhD from Arizona State University. He is the author of Play, Performance, and Identity: How Institutions Structure Ludic Spaces (Routledge), Playwriting and Young Audiences (Intellect), and numerous articles in journals including Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, Youth Theatre Journal, Theatre for Young Audiences Today, Theatre Topics, and the International Journal of Education and the Arts among others. Omasta's work has been recognized by honors including the Founders' Award from the Educational Theatre Association, the Lin Wright Special Recognition Award and the Research Award from the American Alliance for Theatre & Education, and the Arts and Learning Special Interest Group (A & L SIG) Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1506305490
• ISBN 13: 9781506305493
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 472