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Qualitative Research for Education: An Introduction to Theory and Methods
Qualitative Research for Education An Introduction to Theory and Methods Author:Robert C. Bogdan, Sari Knopp Biklen Contains examples from studies illustrating the various steps of a fieldwork project from design to analysis and writing. The text aims to combine accessibility with conceptual sophistication. — This concise, applied, and very clearly written introduction to qualitative research methods can be used effectively in a semester, or year-long course.
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This introductory-level text provides the reader with a background for understanding the uses of qualitative research in education (and other professions) examining its theoretical and historical underpinnings, and providing 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.« less