Early Childhood Qualitative Research (Changing Images of Early Childhood) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415953413 ISBN 13: 9780415953412

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

How can qualitative researchers make the case for the value of their work in a climate that emphasizes so-called "scientifically-based research?" What is the future of qualitative research when such approaches do not meet the narrow criteria being raised as the standard? In this timely collection, editor J. Amos Hatch and contributors argue that the best argument for the efficacy of qualitative studies in early childhood is the new generation of high quality qualitative work. This collection brings together studies and essays that represent the best work being done in early childhood qualitative studies, descriptions of a variety of research methods, and discussions of important issues related to doing early childhood qualitative research in the early 21st century. Taking a unique re-conceptualist point of view, the collection includes materials spanning the full range of early childhood settings and provides cutting edge views by leading educators of new methods and perspectives.

About this title

About the Author:

Amos Hatch is Professor of Theory and Practice in Teacher Education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0415953413
• ISBN 13: 9780415953412
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 262
• Editor: Hatch J. Amos