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| Chapter 1: Introduction | |
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| Purpose | |
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| What Is New in This Edition | |
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| Rationale for This Book | |
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| Selection of the Five Approaches | |
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| Positioning Myself | |
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| Audience | |
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| Organization | |
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| Philosophical, Paradigmatic, and Interpretive Frameworks | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Philosophical Assumptions | |
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| Paradigms or Worldviews | |
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| Interpretive Communities | |
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| Summary | |
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| Additional Readings | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Designing a Qualitative Study | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| The Characteristics of Qualitative Research | |
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| When to Use Qualitative Research | |
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| The Process of Designing a Qualitative Study | |
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| The General Structure of a Plan or Proposal | |
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| Summary | |
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| Additional Readings | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Five Qualitative Approaches to Inquiry | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Narrative Research | |
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| Phenomenological Research | |
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| Grounded Theory Research | |
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| Ethnographic Research | |
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| Case Study Research | |
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| The Five Approaches Compared | |
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| Summary | |
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| Additional Readings | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Five Different Qualitative Studies | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| A Narrative-Biographical Study (Angrosino, 1994) | |
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| A Phenomenological Study (Anderson & Spencer, 2002) | |
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| A Grounded Theory Study (Morrow & Smith, 1995) | |
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| An Ethnographic Study (Haenfler, 2004) | |
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| A Case Study (Asmussen & Creswell, 1995) | |
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| Differences Among the Approaches | |
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| Summary | |
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| Additional Readings | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Chapter 6: Introducing and Focusing the Study | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| The Research Problem | |
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| The Purpose Statement | |
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| The Research Questions | |
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| Summary | |
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| Additional Readings | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Data Collection | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| The Data Collection Circle | |
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| The Site or Individual | |
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| Access and Rapport | |
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| Purposeful Sampling Strategy | |
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| Forms of Data | |
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| Recording Procedures | |
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| Field Issues | |
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| Storing Data | |
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| Five Approaches Compared | |
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| Summary | |
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| Additional Readings | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Data Analysis and Representation | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Three Analysis Strategies | |
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| The Data Analysis Spiral | |
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| Analysis Within Approaches to Inquiry | |
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| Summary | |
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| Additional Readings | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Writing a Qualitative Study | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Several Rhetorical Issues | |
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| Narrative Research Structure | |
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| Phenomenological Structure | |
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| Grounded Theory Structure | |
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| Ethnographic Structure | |
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| Case Study Structure | |
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| A Comparison of Narrative Structure | |
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| Summary | |
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| Additional Readings | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Standards of Validation and Evaluation | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Validation and Reliability in Qualitative Research | |
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| Evaluation Criteria | |
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| Summary | |
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| Additional Readings | |
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| Exercises | |
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| "Turning the Story" and Conclusions | |
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| Turning the Story | |
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| A Case Study | |
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| A Narrative Study | |
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| A Phenomenology | |
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| A Grounded Theory Study | |
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| An Ethnography | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Glossary of Terms | |
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| A Narrative Research Study | |
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| A Phenomenological Study | |
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| An Ethnography | |
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| A Case Study | |