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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 | |