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Cole, Ardra L., Ed.; Knowles, J. Gary, Ed. – 2001
The reflexive turn in qualitative research has transformed the process of doing life history research. No longer are research subjects examined through the lens of the all-knowing but supposedly invisible researcher. According to this book, an introduction to conducting life history research, the process is now one of mutuality, empathy,…
Descriptors: Biographies, Higher Education, Life Events, Qualitative Research
Piantanida, Maria; Garman, Noreen B. – 1999
This guide is for students working on dissertations that are based on qualitative research. The guide attempts to frame the dissertation process as a set of iterative cycles of deliberation which include facing the dissertation, moving into the dissertation, crafting the research proposal, proposing the study, living with the study, entering into…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Guidelines, Higher Education
Bernhardt, Victoria L. – Eye on Education, 2004
This book helps you make sense of the data your school collects, including state student achievement results as well as other qualitative and quantitative data. Easy-to-use templates, tools, and examples are available on the accompanying CD-ROM.
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Student Evaluation, Data Analysis, Computer Uses in Education
Steinberg, Shirley R., Ed.; Cannella, Gaile S., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
This volume of transformed research utilizes an activist approach to examine the notion that nothing is apolitical. Research projects themselves are critically examined for power orientations, even as they are used to address curricular problems and educational or societal issues. Philosophical perspectives that have facilitated an understanding…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Research Problems, Language Usage
Middleton, Sue – 1993
This book explores philosophical differences between feminist teacher-educators of the post-World War II generations and their students, who have experienced the restructured schools and recessionary environment of the "New Right." The volume reaches across boundaries and cultures with a life-history approach to women's studies, giving dimension…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Equal Education, Females, Feminism
Tobin, Kenneth – 2000
This chapter presents the following discussions on the issues of interpretive research: (1) finding quality criteria that pertain to the quality of interpretive research; (2) determining authenticity criteria for interpretive research; and (3) and providing an example of the procedures employed and the outcomes of an intensive interpretive study…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research
Patton, Michael Quinn – 1987
The "CSE Program Evaluation Kit" is a series of nine books intended to assist people conducting program evaluations. This volume, the fourth in the kit, explains the basic assumptions underlying qualitative procedures, suggests evaluation situations where qualitative designs are useful, and provides guidelines for designing qualitative…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods
Hannan, Andrew; Silver, Harold – 2000
This book, based on in-depth qualitative research in 15 universities in the United Kingdom, tells the stories of those who have been involved in rapid institutional changes in higher education. The chapters are: (1) "Introduction: 'Innovation'"; (2) "Researching Innovation"; (3) "The Experience of Innovators"; (4)…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, College Faculty, Educational Innovation
Anderson, Gary L.; Herr, Kathryn G.; Nihlen, Ann – Corwin Press, 2007
Since the publication of the first edition of "Studying Your Own School", practitioner action research has become an established professional development practice in schools and teacher education programs.While the fundamentals of practitioner action research have not changed, the challenges of large scale reform have dramatically…
Descriptors: Research Design, Research Methodology, Educational Practices, Educational Environment
Fink, Dean – 2000
Throughout the Western world, there appears to be a consensus that schools have failed to prepare children for the challenges of the emerging information age. Many high schools that start out as innovative or "break-the-mold" lose their momentum and experience an "attrition of change." They end up becoming like any other…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, High Schools
Opie, Clive – SAGE Publications (CA), 2004
Developed as a hands-on guide for students engaged in educational research, this book provides an introduction to key qualitative and quantitative methods necessary for those commencing research for the first time. The reader is shown how these methods work and how their outcomes may be interpreted. The book includes: (1) A variety of examples and…
Descriptors: Writing Research, Research Methodology, Time Management, Computer Software
Benjamin, Gail R. – 1997
This book recounts the experiences of a U.S. parent with two children in a Japanese elementary school. The author, an anthropologist, blends the roles of observer and parent to illuminate the strengths of the Japanese system and suggest ways in which Americans might learn from it. Chapter titles include: (1) "Getting Started"; (2)…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Comparative Education, Elementary Education
Creswell, John W. – SAGE Publications (CA), 2006
This new version explores the philosophical underpinnings, history, and key elements of each of five qualitative inquiry approaches: narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case study. Using an accessible and engaging writing style, the author compares theoretical frameworks, ways to employ standards of quality, and…
Descriptors: Human Services, Research Design, Critical Theory, Qualitative Research
Mason, Jennifer – 1997
This book is intended to explain principles of qualitative research to potential researchers and to provide them with a set of tools, and guidelines for critical thinking as they carry out such research. The chapters are organized around the elements of the research process which require decisions. Following an introductory chapter, Chapter 2…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Epistemology, Interviews
Hall, Rogers – 2000
This chapter discusses difficulties encountered in research on teaching and learning mathematics to illustrate a set of core problems with appropriate uses of video as data. Problems include: (1) processes of collecting video data and making selections from it are usually deleted from research accounts; (2) production values that are preserved in…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Qualitative Research