Full Description
This hands-on guide takes students from start-to-finish through the research process while showcasing the complexities and interrelationships of different methods, schools of thought, and associated analytical strategies.
Encouraging students to think of qualitative research as a flexible, cyclical process rather than a linear one, this book offers a panoramic strategy and dynamic approach to qualitative research that accommodates the fluid nature of research and accounts for lessons learned through lived experience. With an emphasis on the analysis stage—within case, across case, and the dialogue between these insights and existing literature—it uses concrete applications to show how your methodological decisions translate into practice.
It covers:
Forming, defending, and evaluating research questions
Choosing a research approach
Ensuring ethically sound research
Collecting quality data
Analyzing data in layers
Reporting research results
Through a conversational tone that unpacks key vocabulary and acts as a companion supervisor, this book equips you to traverse every step of the qualitative research journey.
Contents
Chapter 1: Choosing qualitative inquiry
The knowledge production process
Qualitative research design
Realm of qualitative epistemologies
Chapter 2: Designing an iterative research project
Designing the research
The writing of a research project
Chapter 3: Choosing an Approach to Guide Methodological Decisions
Phenomenology
Grounded theory
Discourse analysis
Narrative analysis
Ethnography
Chapter 4: Choosing Tools for Your Fieldwork
Observation
Interviews
Documents
Chapter 5: Ethical challenges in qualitative research
Procedural Ethics
Making an Application to the REB
Concerns at the Heart of Research Relationships
Chapter 6: Preparing for analysis and validity requirements
The palimpsest as a metaphor for principles of analysis
Vertical analysis: The first stratum of the palimpsest
Horizontal analysis: The second stratum of the palimpsest
Theoretical analysis: The third stratum of the palimpsest
Initial project
Chapter 7: Vertical Analysis
Contextualizing condensation
Semantic condensation
Chapter 8: Horizontal analysis
Horizontal analysis using discourse analysis through interpretative repertoires
Horizontal analysis using a mixed approached inspired by grounded theory and narrative analysis
Chapter 9: Theorizing and presenting the results
Classification by Typology
Bringing out contrasting characters
Establishing a dialogue to enrich concepts
Ensuring the quality of the study
