Qualitative Research for Education

Call no: 370.78 BOG 2007

Physical Description: xiv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:5th ed

Notes: Includes Index

This concise, applied, and very clearly written introduction to qualitative research methods can be used effectively in any semester, or year-long course. The purpose of this introductory-level text is to provide the reader with a background for understanding the uses of qualitative research in education (and other professions), to examine its theoretical and historical underpinnings, and to provide the how-to's of doing qualitative research. This new edition places qualitative research within current debates about research methods and alternative ways of knowing. While the authors approach the subject from a sociological perspective, they also take care to reflect the many changes in conceptualization of qualitative research brought by post-structural and feminist thought.