Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive ApproachSAGE, 2005 - 175 páginas Qualitative Research Design gives researchers and students a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to planning qualitative research. Based on a course that the author taught for 7 years at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, it is written in an informal, jargon-free style and incorporates many examples and hands-on exercises. Rather than the rigid, linear approach to design usually found in research methods textbooks, which is particularly unsuited to qualitative research, the book presents a flexible, systemic model of design. This model not only better fits what experienced qualitative researchers actually do, but provides a clear framework for designing a study and developing a research proposal. This edition includes new or substantially expanded discussions of research paradigms, defining a research problem, site and participant selection, relationships with research participants, data analysis, and validity, as well as more examples and exercises. |
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A Model for Qualitative Research Design | 1 |
The Evolution of a Research Design | 7 |
The Organization of This Book | 10 |
The Exercises in This Book | 11 |
Notes | 13 |
Goals Why Are You Doing This Study? | 15 |
Personal Practical and Intellectual Goals | 16 |
Using Personal Experience to Choose a Dissertation Topic | 17 |
Instrumentalist Questions and Realist Questions | 72 |
Variance Questions and Process Questions | 74 |
Developing Research Questions | 76 |
Methods What Will You Actually Do? | 79 |
Structured and Unstructured Approaches | 80 |
Negotiating Research Relationships | 82 |
Negotiating Relationships in a Practitioner Research Study | 85 |
Reflecting on Your Research Relationship | 86 |
The Importance of Personal Values and Identity | 19 |
What Goals Can Qualitative Research Help You Achieve? | 22 |
Deciding on a Dissertation Topic | 25 |
Exercise 21 Researcher Identity Memo | 27 |
Researcher Identity Memo for a Study of Educational Reform in Bolivia | 28 |
Note | 32 |
Conceptual Framework What Do You Think Is Going On? | 33 |
Connecting With a Research Paradigm | 36 |
Experiential Knowledge | 37 |
Identity Memo on Diversity | 39 |
How One Researcher Used Her Personal Experience to Refocus Her Research Problem | 41 |
Using Existing Theory | 44 |
Concept Maps | 46 |
Creating a Concept Map for Your Study | 52 |
Other Uses of Existing Research | 55 |
Pilot and Exploratory Studies | 56 |
How a Student Used a Pilot Study to Help Design Her Dissertation Research | 57 |
Thought Experiments | 58 |
Using a Thought Experiment to Develop a Theory of the Persistence of Illiteracy | 59 |
Creating a Model of the Development of Friendship Patterns | 60 |
Notes | 63 |
Research Questions What Do You Want to Understand? | 65 |
The Development of Research Questions | 66 |
The Functions of Research Questions | 67 |
Research Questions and Other Kinds of Questions | 68 |
Research Hypotheses in Qualitative Designs | 69 |
Generic Questions and Particularistic Questions | 70 |
Site and Participant Selection | 87 |
Decisions About Data Collection | 91 |
Decisions About Data Analysis | 95 |
A Mismatch Between Questions and Analysis | 99 |
Linking Methods and Questions | 102 |
Notes | 103 |
Validity How Might You Be Wrong? | 105 |
The Concept of Validity | 106 |
Bias and Reactivity | 108 |
A Checklist | 109 |
Identifying and Dealing With Validity Threats | 114 |
Generalization in Qualitative Research | 115 |
Notes | 116 |
Research Proposals Presenting and Justifying a Qualitative Study | 117 |
The Purpose of a Proposal | 118 |
The Proposal as an Argument | 119 |
The Relationship Between Research Design and Proposal Argument | 120 |
A Model for Proposal Argument | 121 |
The Argument of a Dissertation Proposal | 129 |
An Outline of a Dissertation Proposal Argument | 131 |
Developing a Proposal Argument | 135 |
Notes | 137 |
An Example of a Qualitative Proposal | 139 |
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About the Author | |
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