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Introduction | |
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Introduction to the Book | |
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Who is This Book For? | |
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The Qualitative Research Cycle | |
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Structure of the Book | |
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Features of this Book | |
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The Nature of Qualitative Research | |
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What is Qualitative Research? | |
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When to Conduct Qualitative Research | |
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The Underlying Interpretive Paradigm | |
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Qualitative and Quantitative Research | |
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Verstehen and Understanding | |
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The Emic and Etic Perspective | |
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Subjectivity and The Need for Reflexivity | |
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Our Approach to Qualitative Research | |
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Evaluating quality | |
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The Design Cycle | |
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The Design Cycle | |
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Introduction | |
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Formulating Qualitative Research Questions | |
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Incorporating Literature and Theory | |
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Developing a Conceptual Framework | |
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Selecting a Fieldwork Approach | |
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Evaluating Quality | |
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Ethical Issues in Qualitative Research | |
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Introduction | |
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What is Ethics? | |
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Ethics in Qualitative Research | |
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Ethical Issues in the Design Cycle | |
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Ethical Issues in the Ethnographic Cycle | |
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Ethical Issues in the Analytic Cycle | |
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Evaluating quality | |
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The Ethnographic Cycle | |
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Participant Recruitment | |
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What is Participant Recruitment? | |
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Defining and Refining the Study Population | |
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How Many to Recruit: The Principle of Saturation | |
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Recruitment Goals | |
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Strategies for Participant Recruitment | |
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Evaluating quality | |
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In-Depth Interviews | |
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What is an In-Depth Interview? | |
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When to Conduct an In-Depth Interview | |
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Purpose of an In-Depth Interview | |
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The Cyclical Nature of Data Collection | |
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Developing an Interview Guide | |
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Preparing for Data Collection | |
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Reflecting on Subjectivity and Positionality | |
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Conducting the Interview | |
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Strengths and Limitations | |
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Evaluating Quality | |
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Focus Group Discussions | |
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What is a Focus Group Discussion? | |
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When to Conduct Focus Group Discussions | |
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The Cyclical Nature of Data Collection | |
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Developing the Discussion Guide | |
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Preparing for Data Collection | |
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Conducting the Focus Group Discussion | |
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Post-Discussion Information | |
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Strengths and Limitations | |
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Evaluating quality | |
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Observation | |
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What is Observation? | |
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When to Conduct Observation | |
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What to Observe | |
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Types of Observation | |
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Preparing and Conduct of Observation | |
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Writing an Observation | |
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Strengths and Limitations | |
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Evaluating Quality | |
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The Analytic Cycle | |
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Data Preparation and Developing Codes | |
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Introduction | |
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The Nature of Qualitative Data Analysis | |
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Our Approach to Analysis | |
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Foundations of Grounded Theory | |
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Data Preparation | |
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Developing Codes | |
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Making a Codebook | |
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Coding Data | |
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Evaluating Quality | |
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Textual Data Analysis | |
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Introduction | |
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Formulating a Project-Specific Plan of Analysis | |
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Searching Data | |
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The Cyclical Process of Analysis | |
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Thick Description | |
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Comparison | |
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Categorizing and Conceptualizing | |
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Theory Development | |
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Evaluating Quality | |
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Writing Qualitative Research | |
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Writing in Qualitative Research | |
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Who is the Audience? | |
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Structure of Writing | |
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Beginning to Write | |
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Writing a Methodology | |
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Presenting Qualitative Results | |
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Evaluating Quality | |