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Qualitative Research Challenging the Orthodoxies in Standard Academic Discourse(s)

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ISBN-10: 080584838X

ISBN-13: 9780805848380

Edition: 2009

Authors: Sandra G. Kouritzin, Nathalie A. C. Piquemal, Renee Norman, Nathalie A. C. Piquemal, Renee Norman

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Evocative and provocative, this book presents the points of view of scholars in the social sciences who used non-standard methods or writing practices to challenge the "research-as-usual" paradigm in the academy, while at the same time meeting the demands of quality and rigor set by their university examining committees and ethical review boards. The intent is to encourage new researchers who are also considering such a path. The authors discuss their lived personal experiences within and against traditional academic research and writing traditions, as well as their struggles and eventual successes. Chapters are written in dramatic form, in dialogue, in story, and include poetry, vignettes,…    
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Book details

List price: $61.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/22/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 276
Size: 6.18" wide x 8.98" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Foreword: Forward Researching
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Pivotal Moments
The Doctoral Journey: Reflections on Disruptions and Interruptions
Finding the Stories, Telling the Story: Narrative in the Academy
Collaborative Inquiry as Illuminated Manuscript
Entangled Lives: Inquiring into the Negotiation of Relational Stories to Live By in Doctoral Studies and Research
The Chaucerian Dissertation Model That "Got Away"
Transcendence: The Journey from Hard Data into Artistic Depiction-Theatre as Representation
Afternoon Tea at Su's: Participant Voice and Community in Critical Feminist Ethnography
Altered Landscapes: Not the End of the Journey
Whose Story Is It Anyway?
Drinking U.S. Water: Flowing Narratives of a Traveling Korean Woman Researcher in U.S. Higher Education
Integrated Inquiry: Transforming Multiple Research Perspectives
After the Journey: Reflections on the Afterlife of Research
Re-membering Michael: Emotionality, Vulnerability, and the Research Process
Questioning as a Pedagogical Tool in Teaching and Research
Who's Afraid of Virginia's Daughters? Writing, Research, and Relations
Teaching and Learning Qualitative Research: Educational Space as a Fluid
Narrative Inquiry and the Discovery of Self within the Academy
Getting Away With "It"
Conclusion: Valediction, Requiem, and Invocation for Research(ers)
Index