Full Description
The second edition of Qualitative Research focuses on cultivating and bridging theoretical, methodological, and conceptual aspects to provide insight into their interactions in qualitative research. This comprehensive text helps students understand the central concepts, topics, and skills necessary to engage in rigorous, valid, and respectful qualitative research. Authors Sharon M. Ravitch and Nicole Mittenfelner Carl have written this text with student researchers in mind, balancing communicating the foundations and processes of qualitative research with clarity and simplicity while also capturing its complexity and layers. Whether students are new to qualitative research or not, this book will help students develop and deepen their understanding of an approach to research that seeks, designs for, and engages criticality in research.
The new edition of this book includes a more prominently-placed and expanded discussion of research ethics as crucial to students' inquiry, more information on reflexivity in data collection and individual methods for qualitative data collection, a more in-depth chapter on coding and other types of qualitative data analysis, and more thorough resource sections including connections to the extensive appendices so students can further their qualitative research journey.
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The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides. .
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Sharon Would Like to Thank
Nicole Would Like to Thank
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Qualitative Research: An Opening Orientation
An Overview of the Processes of Qualitative Research
Defining and Situating Qualitative Research
Key Components of Qualitative Research
Horizontal Values in Qualitative Research: Criticality, Reflexivity, Collaboration, and Rigor
Approaches to Qualitative Research: An Overview
A Note on the Possibilities of Qualitative Research
Chapter 2: Conceptual Frameworks in Research
Conceptual Frameworks in Research
Developing a Conceptual Framework
Building Your Conceptual Framework
Chapter 3: Qualitative Research Design
Research Design in Qualitative Research
Qualitative Research Design Processes
Sampling: Site and Participant Selection
Writing in Research Design
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Reflexivity in Data Collection
Defining Qualitative Research as Iterative
Reflexivity in Data Collection
Reflexivity and Researcher-Generated Data Sources
Chapter 5: Methods of Data Collection
Interviews
Observational Fieldnotes
Focus Groups
Documents and Archival Data
Open-Ended Questionnaires
Participatory Methods of Data Collection
Revisiting Research Design
Chapter 6: Validity in Qualitative Research
Overview of Validity in Qualitative Research
Assessing Validity
Strategies for Achieving Qualitative Validity
Rigor and Validity in Qualitative Research
Chapter 7: Ethics and Relational Research
Relational Ethics: Taking a Relational Approach to Research
Deepening Research Ethics: Beyond IRB and Informed Consent
Beyond Negotiating Entrée and Building Rapport
Research Boundaries
Informed Consent, with an Emphasis on Informed
Transparency in Goals, Expectations, Processes, and Roles
Confidentiality and Anonymity
The Ethical Dimensions of the Researcher as Instrument
Pushing Against the Expert-Learner Binary
Ethical Collaboration: Dialectics of Mutual Influence
Balancing Design Flexibility and Rigor: Responsive Research as an Ethical Stance
Chapter 8: An Integrative Approach to Data Analysis
Defining and Critically Approaching Qualitative Data Analysis
Analysis and Interpretation
Overview of Qualitative Data Analysis Processes
An Integrative Approach to Qualitative Data Analysis
Chapter 9: Methods and Processes of Data Analysis
Data Organization and Managements
Immersive Engagement
Writing and Representation
Chapter 10: Writing and Representing Research: The Research Report
The Craft of Writing: Outlining, Drafting, and Revising
Writing a Final Report: Building On, Deepening, and Codifying Analysis
Critical Writing Considerations
Concluding Thoughts: The Ethics of Research Writing
Chapter 11: Qualitative Research Proposals
Qualitative Research Proposals
Writing Quality Research Proposals
Adapting Research Proposals
Epilogue
Revisiting the Horizontal Values in Qualitative Research
Closing Thoughts: The Power and Potential of Qualitative Research
Glossary
Appendixes
References
Index
