Designed with the graduate student in mind, Qualitative Research focuses on helping the reader cultivate and integrate theoretical, methodological and conceptual knowledge to provide insight into the interaction and to help understand the central concepts, topics and skills needed to engage in rigorous, valid, and respectful qualitative research. The authors have balanced communicating the foundations and processes of qualitative research with clarity and simplicity, while at the same time capturing its complexity and the multiple layers that were central to writing this book. Whether you are new to qualitative research or not, the goal for this book is to develop and deepen your understanding of an approach to research that seeks, designs for, and engages criticality in qualitative research. Every chapters begins with an overview and key objectives for the chapter. Many diverse examples illustrate key concepts throughout, along with a wide range of memos, conceptual framework narratives, graphics and much more. The new edition will include an earlier discussion of research ethics as crucial to students' inquiry, expanded information on individual methods for qualitative data collection, an expanded chapter on coding and other types of qualitative data analysis, and more thorough resource sections so students can further their qualitative research journey--Provided by publisher.

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Sharon Would Like to Thank

Nicole Would Like to Thank

About the Authors

  Chapter 1: Qualitative Research: An Opening Orientation

An Overview of the Processes of Qualitative Research

Defining and Situating Qualitative Research

Key Components of Qualitative Research

Horizontal Values in Qualitative Research: Criticality, Reflexivity, Collaboration, and Rigor

Approaches to Qualitative Research: An Overview

A Note on the Possibilities of Qualitative Research

  Chapter 2: Conceptual Frameworks in Research

Conceptual Frameworks in Research

Developing a Conceptual Framework

Building Your Conceptual Framework

  Chapter 3: Qualitative Research Design

Research Design in Qualitative Research

Qualitative Research Design Processes

Sampling: Site and Participant Selection

Writing in Research Design

Conclusion

  Chapter 4: Reflexivity in Data Collection

Defining Qualitative Research as Iterative

 Reflexivity in Data Collection

Reflexivity and Researcher-Generated Data Sources

  Chapter 5: Methods of Data Collection

Interviews

Observational Fieldnotes

Focus Groups

Documents and Archival Data

Open-Ended Questionnaires

Participatory Methods of Data Collection

Revisiting Research Design

  Chapter 6: Validity in Qualitative Research

Overview of Validity in Qualitative Research

Assessing Validity

Strategies for Achieving Qualitative Validity

Rigor and Validity in Qualitative Research

  Chapter 7: Ethics and Relational Research

Relational Ethics: Taking a Relational Approach to Research

Deepening Research Ethics: Beyond IRB and Informed Consent

Beyond Negotiating Entrée and Building Rapport

Research Boundaries

Informed Consent, with an Emphasis on Informed

Transparency in Goals, Expectations, Processes, and Roles

Confidentiality and Anonymity

The Ethical Dimensions of the Researcher as Instrument

Pushing Against the Expert–Learner Binary

Ethical Collaboration: Dialectics of Mutual Influence

Balancing Design Flexibility and Rigor: Responsive Research as an Ethical Stance

  Chapter 8: An Integrative Approach to Data Analysis

Defining and Critically Approaching Qualitative Data Analysis

Analysis and Interpretation

Overview of Qualitative Data Analysis Processes

An Integrative Approach to Qualitative Data Analysis

  Chapter 9: Methods and Processes of Data Analysis

Data Organization and Managements

Immersive Engagement

Writing and Representation

  Chapter 10: Writing and Representing Research: The Research Report

The Craft of Writing: Outlining, Drafting, and Revising

Writing a Final Report: Building On, Deepening, and Codifying Analysis

Critical Writing Considerations

Concluding Thoughts: The Ethics of Research Writing

  Chapter 11: Qualitative Research Proposals

Qualitative Research Proposals

Writing Quality Research Proposals

Adapting Research Proposals

  Epilogue

Revisiting the Horizontal Values in Qualitative Research

Closing Thoughts: The Power and Potential of Qualitative Research

Glossary

Appendixes

References

Index

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