Designing Qualitative Research - Softcover

Marshall, Catherine; Rossman, Gretchen B

Softcover

ISBN 10: 141297044X ISBN 13: 9781412970440

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2010

Synopsis

Offering practical answers to complex questions in qualitative research design

Providing students in applied social and behavioral science disciplines with invaluable guidance on developing and successfully defending qualitative research proposals, the Fifth Edition of this bestselling text offers expanded coverage of ethics, data analysis, and research design techniques. Authors Catherine Marshall and Gretchen B. Rossman cover distance-based research (such as email interviews); the implications of postmodern turns; integrating archival material; and creative ways of presenting the research. The authors include updates to popular features, such as vignettes that illustrate the methodological challenges today′s qualitative researcher face.

New to this Edition

• An entire chapter devoted to ethical issues (as well as continuous coverage throughout the book)
• Expanded discussions of internet ethnography, cultural studies, critical race theory, and queer theory
• A greatly enhanced chapter on data analysis

This book is appropriate for all graduate-level Introduction to Qualitative Methods courses in education, nursing, sociology, human services, and other related fields.

About this title

About the Author:

Catherine Marshall is Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Formerly a teacher in Rhode Island, her studies and career moves include doctoral studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles, and faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University before moving in 1991 to Chapel Hill. Her teaching and research interests include the use an interdisciplinary approach to analyze school cultures, state policy systems, and the professional development of adults working in organizations. She has published extensively about the politics of education, qualitative methodology, and women′s access to careers as well as about the socialization, language, and values in educational leadership. She is the author of Reframing Educational Politics for Social Justice (Allyn & Bacon, 2004); Leadership for Social Justice: Making Revolutions in Education, Culture and Education Policy in the American States (Allyn & Bacon, 2005); and Designing Qualitative Research, Fifth Edition (SAGE, 2010), as well as a number of other books and numerous journal articles.

Review:

"This useful stand by benefits from it′s latest revisions, overall an invaluable teaching resource in qualitative research methodology." Author: Christopher J. Lucas

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 141297044X
• ISBN 13: 9781412970440
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 344