Joseph A. Maxwell

Qualitative Research Design

An Interactive Approach

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Produktbeschreibung

This book gives researchers and students a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to planning qualitative research. Based on a course that the author taught for 7 years at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, it is written in an informal, jargon-free style and incorporates many examples and hands-on exercises. Rather than the rigid, linear approach to design that is usually found in research methods textbooks--and which is particularly ill suited for qualitative research--this book presents a flexible, systemic model of design. This model not only better fits what experienced qualitative researchers actually do, but provides a clear framework for designing a study and developing a research proposal. This edition includes new or substantially expanded discussions of research paradigms, defining a research problem, site and participant selection, relationships with research participants, data analysis, and validity, as well as more examples and exercises.

Produktdetails

• Applied Social Research Methods Series 41
• Verlag: Sage Publications
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 56134310, B81194P
• 3rd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 320g
• ISBN-13: 9781412981194
• ISBN-10: 1412981190
• Artikelnr.: 35063297

Autorenporträt

Joseph A. Maxwell is a Professor (Emeritus) in the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University, where he taught courses on qualitative and mixed methods research. He is the author of Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach (3rd ed.; SAGE, 2013), A Realist Approach for Qualitative Research (SAGE, 2012), and papers on qualitative and mixed methods research, program evaluation, sociocultural theory, Native American societies, and medical education. He has a PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. A Model for Qualitative Research Design
Chapter 2. Goals: Why Are You Doing This Study?
Chapter 3. Conceptual Framework: What Do You Think Is Going On?
Chapter 4. Research Questions: What Do You Want to Understand?
Chapter 5. Methods: What Will You Actually Do?
Chapter 6. Validity: How Might You Be Wrong?
Chapter 7. Research Proposals: Presenting and Justifying a Qualitative Study
Appendix A. A Proposal for a Study of Medical School Teaching
Appendix B. A Proposal for a Study of Online Learning by Teachers

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Preface Preface to the First Edition 1. A Model for Qualitative Research
Design 2. Goals: Why Are You Doing This Study? 3. Conceptual Framework:
What Do You Think Is Going On? 4. Research Questions: What Do You Want to
Understand? 5. Methods: What Will You Actually Do? 6. Validity: How Might
You Be Wrong? 7. Research Proposals: Presenting and Justifying a
Qualitative Study Appendix: An Example of a Qualitative Proposal References
Index About the Author

Rezensionen

"This book uses everyday language that will captivate students' attention and embed practical knowledge to supplement the technical."
Gaetane Jean-Marie