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Becoming Qualitative Researchers: An Introduction 5th Edition by Corrine Glesne, ISBN-13: 978-0133859393

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Becoming Qualitative Researchers: An Introduction 5th Edition by Corrine Glesne, ISBN-13: 978-0133859393

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pearson; 5th edition (December 24, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0133859398
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0133859393

Beginning researchers get an overview of qualitative research through a concise look at the practice of conducting research and the theory and debates that keep qualitative inquiry vibrant.

Ideal for introducing the novice researcher to the theory and practice of qualitative research, this text opens students to the diverse possibilities within this inquiry approach, while helping them understand how to design and implement specific research methods. The author’s accessible writing style, the wealth of examples, and the numerous exercises provide opportunities for practicing and refining the skills of becoming a qualitative researcher. The new edition focuses on the development of research proposals (Ch. 2); the history and concerns of institutional review boards (IRBs) and issues qualitative researchers sometimes confront when submitting proposals (Ch. 6); greater information and examples on coding and thematic analysis, while also introducing other approaches to data analysis (Ch. 7); and arts based research through a chapter that encourages consideration of creative ways to approach and represent inquiry (Ch. 9). Chapter 10 looks at sharing research results through participation at conferences and in publications.

Table of Contents:

About the Author

Introduction: A Sense of Things to Come

Brief Contents

Contents

Chapter 1 Meeting Qualitative Inquiry

Beginnings

Searching

Ways of Knowing: Paradigms of Research

Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism and Postempiricism

Interpretivism

Critical Theory

Postmodernism/Postcolonialism/Poststructuralism

Mixed Methods

Methodology, Inquiry Questions, and Methods: An Interaction

Interpretive Traditions of Qualitative Inquiry

Ethnography

Ethnography’s Historical Context.

Current Ethnography.

Autoethnography

Action Research

Possibilities of Qualitative Inquiry

What is to Come

Recommended Readings

Exercises

Chapter 2 Research Design and Other Prestudy Tasks: Doing What is Good for You

Introduction and Context

The Research Topic

Conceptual Framework

Seeking Relevant Literature

Using Theory

Creating a Framework for Concepts

Research Purposes

Research Statement and Questions

Selection of Research Methods

Selection of Site and Participants

Selection of Site

Site Selection Decisions.

Backyard Research.

Selection of Study Participants and Locations for Observations

Planning for Trustworthiness and time

Trustworthiness

The Time Frame

Meeting Participants: Access, Research Summaries, and the pilot

Gaining and Maintaining Access

The Lay Summary

The Pilot Study

Recommended Readings

Exercises

Class Exercises

Individual Exercises

Chapter 3 Being There: Developing Understanding Through Participant Observation, Documents, and Visual Research

The Participant-Observation Continuum

Participant-Observation Goals

The Participant-Observation Process

Early Days of Fieldwork

Observations

Fieldnotes

Making Notes.

Descriptive Notes.

Analytic Notes.

Research Diary.

Noting Advice.

Fieldwork Allies: Documents, Artifacts, and Visual Data

Documents and Artifacts

Archival Materials and Historical Research.

Current Documents and Artifacts.

Visual Data: Photography, Video, Maps, and Diagrams

Researcher-Created Visual Data.

Participant-Created or -Used Visual Data.

Collaboratively Created and/or Studied Visual Data.

Marginal or companion?

Recommended Readings

Exercises

Observation Activities

Document, Artifact, and Visual Activities

Chapter 4 Making Words Fly: Developing Understanding Through Interviewing

Developing Questions

Question Content

Shaping Interview Questions

Revising and Piloting Interview Questions

Conducting the Interview

Where? When? How Long? How Often?

The Interactive Nature of Interviewing

Probing

Recording, Transcribing, and Tracking

Recording

Transcribing

Tracking

Some Typical Problems in Interviewing

Focus Group Interviews

A Critique of the Conventional Interview

Recommended Readings

Exercises

Class Exercises

Individual Exercises

Chapter 5 Field Relations: Researcher Roles, Rapport, and Reflexivity

Researcher Roles and Predispositions

Anticipatory

A Learner

Analytic

Reassuring

Grateful

Field Relationships

Establishing and Maintaining Field Relationships

Rapport and Fitting in.

Building Trust and Taking Breaks.

Complicating and Enriching Dynamics in Field Relationships: Friendships and Power

Reflexivity

Subjectivity

Identities and Positionings

Trustworthiness

What Do You Notice?

Why Do You Notice What You Notice?

How Can You Interpret What You Notice?

Transformational Validity.

Asking Reflexive Questions

So What?

Recommended Readings

Exercises

Chapter 6 But Is It Ethical? Considering What Is “Right”

Respect, Beneficence, and Justice

The Principle of Respect: Informed and Voluntary Consent

The Principle of Beneficence: Privacy

Privacy, Consent, and the Internet.

Privacy, Consent, and Visual Research.

The Principle of Justice: The Vulnerable, Reciprocity, and Representation

Reciprocity.

Representation.

Ethical Codes

Researcher Roles and Ethical Dilemmas

Exploiter

Intervener/Reformer

Advocate

Friend

No Easy Solutions

Recommended Readings

Exercises

Chapter 7 Finding Your Story: Data Analysis

Varying Forms of Analysis

Thematic Analysis

Conversation Analysis

Narrative Analysis

Semiotics

Thematic Analysis: The Early Days

Memo Writing

Maintaining Some Semblance of Control

Rudimentary Categorizations

Entering the Code Mines

What Is a Code?

Approaches to Coding

Creating a Codebook

Putting Codes to Work

Displaying Data

Qualitative Data Analysis Software

Making Connections

Trustworthiness and Limitations

How Do You Know That Your Interpretation Is the Right One?

Delimitations and Limitations

Considerations

Recommended Readings

Exercises

Class Exercises

Individual Exercises

Chapter 8 Crafting Your Story: Writing Up Qualitative Data

The Conundrum of Representation

The Tale and the Teller

The Researcher’s Language

Depictions and Interpretations

Mind-Sets for Approaching Research Writing

Artist

Translator/Interpreter

Transformer

Strategies for Writing

Getting Started

Keeping At It

Drafts and Revisions

The Text: Questions of Style

Variety in Text Organization

Thematic.

Natural History.

Chronology.

Zoom Lens.

Narrative.

Separation of Narrative and Interpretation.

Amalgamation.

Data Display.

Specifics Of Style

Beginning and Ending

Recommended Readings

Exercises

Chapter 9 Improvising a Song of the World: Arts Based Research

Why Engage in Arts Based Research?

Approaches to Arts based Research

Ethnodrama

Poetics

Autoethnography

Fiction

Visual

Being accountable and Taking Risks

Being Accountable

Taking Risks

Recommended Readings

Exercises4

Chapter 10 The Continuing Search

Becoming Qualitative Researchers

Applications Of Qualitative Research

The Possibilities of Words and Other Forms of Presenting Research

Conference Presentations.

Publishing in Journals.

Publishing your Dissertation.

Applications of the Research Process

Developing Skills and Self-Learning.

Creating and Deepening Relationships.

Concluding Words

Recommended Readings

Exercises

Appendix A Descriptions of Several Qualitative Methodologies

Narrative Research

Grounded Theory

Case Study

Phenomenological Research

Appendix B Maintaining a Fieldwork Notebook

Glossary

References

Name Index

Corrine Glesne is a qualitative research methodologist and educational anthropologist, Corrine Glesne has conducted ethnographic research in the United States and abroad. Her text Becoming Qualitative Researchers has been translated into several languages, including Turkish and Chinese. In 2014, she was asked to give the keynote at the Eurasian Educational Research Congress, held in Istanbul. Corrine was a professor at the University of Vermont for seventeen years. Later, as a traveling professor with an international educational program, she taught and accompanied undergraduates to India, the Philippines, Mexico, New Zealand, and England. In 2011, she embarked on a year-long, multi-site qualitative study of the “exemplary” academic art museum for the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, resulting in her book The Exemplary Museum: Art and Academia (2013, MuseumsEtc). Corrine did her doctoral work at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. Her home is in Asheville, North Carolina.

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