Qualitative Research: An Introduction to Methods and Designs [Paperback]

The authors—noted scholars and researchers—provide an up-to-date guide to qualitative study design, data collection, analysis, and reporting. Step by step, the authors explain a range of methodologies and methods for conducting qualitative research focusing on how they are applied when conducting an actual study. The book includes methods of data collection, specific approaches to qualitative research, and current issues in the field. Specifically, chapters cover the methods, designs, and analyses related to the methodologies of history, case study, program evaluation, ethnography, autoethnography, narrative, life histories, emancipatory discourses, feminist perspectives, African American inquiry, indigenous studies, and practitioner qualitative research.Tables, Figures, and Exhibits xi

Preface xiii

The Editors xix

The Contributors xxi

Part One A Qualitative Frame of Mind

1 Introduction to Qualitative Research 3
Stephen D. Lapan, MaryLynn T. Quartaroli, and Frances Julia Riemer

2 Ethics in Qualitative Research in Education and the Social Sciences 19
Donna M. Mertens

3 Grounded Theory 41
Robert Thornberg, Kathy Charmaz

4 Methodology, Methods, and Tools in Qualitative Research 69
Jean J. Schensul

Part Two Drawing on the Disciplines

5 Biography and Life Story Research 107
Cynthia E. Winston

6 Mystery Solved: Detective Skills and the Historian's Craft 137
Laurie Moses Hines

7 Ethnographic Research 163
Frances Julia Riemer

8 Trekking Through Autoethnography 1l"