Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches

Creswell, John W.,Poth, Cheryl N.

ISBN 10: 150636117X / ISBN 13: 9781506361178

Published by Sage Pubns Ltd, 1694

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches
• Publisher: Sage Pubns Ltd
• Publication Date: 1694
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 150636117X
• ISBN 13: 9781506361178
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In the Fourth Edition of this bestselling book, John W Creswell and new co-author Cheryl N Poth explore the philosophical underpinnings, history and key elements of each of five qualitative inquiry traditions: narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography and case study - putting them side by side, so that we can see the differences. The authors relate research designs to each of the traditions of enquiry. They compare theoretical frameworks and ways to employ standards of quality, as well as strategies for writing introductions to studies, collecting data, analyzing data, writing a narrative and verifying results.

New in this edition:

• Updated materials on each tradition
• More on interpretive frameworks and ethics
• More visual depictions of the five approaches
• Two new topical articles in Chapter 5, reproduced in full in the appendices.

About the Author

John W. Creswell, PhD, is a professor of family medicine and co-director of the Michigan Mixed Methods Research and Scholarship Program at the University of Michigan. He has authored numerous articles and 28 books on mixed methods research, qualitative research, and research design. While at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, he held the Clifton Endowed Professor Chair, served as director of a mixed methods research office, founded SAGE’s Journal of Mixed Methods Research, and was an adjunct professor of family medicine at the University of Michigan and a consultant to the Veterans Administration health services research center. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar to South Africa in 2008 and to Thailand in 2012. In 2011, he co-led a national working group on mixed methods practices at the National Institutes of Health, served as a visiting professor at Harvard’s School of Public Health, and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. In 2014, he was the president of the Mixed Methods International Research Association. In 2015, he joined the staff of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan. John has been teaching research methods courses for the past 40 years..