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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Qualitative Research and Habits of Mind | |
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| Identifying Habits | |
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| Getting Feedback and Writing About It | |
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| Finding Your Theoretical Habit | |
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| Developing Habits of Mind | |
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| Terms Used to Describe Qualitative Research | |
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| Characteristics of Qualitative Work | |
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| Questions Suited to Qualitative Research Methods | |
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| Using Theory in Qualitative Research | |
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| Artistic Approaches to Qualitative Research | |
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| Why Try These Exercises? | |
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| How to Use This Book | |
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| The Audience for This Book | |
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| Bibliography as Resource List | |
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| The Observation and Writing Habit | |
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| Observing a Still Life Scene | |
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| Description of a Still Life Scene: 10 Minutes' Worth | |
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| Constructing a Reflective Portfolio | |
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| Portfolios and Assessment | |
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| Types of Portfolios | |
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| How the Electronic Portfolio Works | |
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| Portfolio Contents | |
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| Physical Description of This Setting | |
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| Observation in the Home or Workplace | |
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| Description of a Familiar Person or a Stranger | |
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| The Critical Case Use of Observation of a Student: Lessons Learned for the Professional Development of the Educator in Training (Edited) | |
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| Critical Case Study | |
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| The Qualities of Exemplary Case Studies | |
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| Missing Dad | |
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| Observing at an Art Museum or at a Movie | |
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| Observing an Animal at Home, the Zoo, or a Pet Shop | |
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| Drawing to Become a Better Observer: Drawing Upside Down | |
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| Advancing the Observation and Reflection Habit | |
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| Nonparticipant Observation Assignment | |
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| The Cutie Beauty Salon | |
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| Reflecting to Strengthen the Writing Habit | |
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| Writing Your Educational Autobiography | |
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| Writing a Pedagogical Letter | |
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| Next Steps | |
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| Sample Reflection (Edited) for Adding to the Reflective Journal | |
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| Pitfalls | |
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| Advancing the Observation and Reflection Habit | |
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| Resources for Understanding Observation | |
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| The Interview and Writing Habit | |
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| Two People Talking, Communicating, and Constructing Meaning | |
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| Types of Interview Questions | |
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| Preparing Questions | |
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| Examples of Interview Questions From a Recent Study | |
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| Example of a Transcript | |
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| Interviewing Someone You Know | |
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| Interviewing a Stranger | |
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| The Oral History Interview | |
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| The Focus Group interview Demonstration Exercise | |
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| Presenting Interview Data as a Found Data Poem | |
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| The Digital, Virtual interview and Google Groups | |
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| interviewing Someone Twice | |
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| Practicing an Online Interview | |
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| The Interview and Writing Habit | |
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| Resourcess to Improve Your Knowledge of Interviewing Skills | |
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| The Creative Habit | |
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| The Role of the Researcher and the Researcher Reflective Journal | |
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| Variations on Writing Your Name | |
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| The Camera as an Extension of the Eye, the Eye as an Extension of the Soul | |
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| Building a Collage: My Role as a Researcher | |
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| Constructing a YaYa Box or Making a Quilt Patch | |
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| The Qualitative Researcher as User of All of One's Senses, Including the intuitive Sense | |
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| Writing About Your Favorite Vegetable | |
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| Serendipity | |
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| Intuition and Creativity in Research | |
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| The Pas de Deux of Intuition and Creativity: Lessons for Today | |
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| Writing the Researcher Reflective Journal | |
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| Your Journey | |
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| Future Directions | |
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| Reflective Journal Writing Practice in Dialogue Form | |
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| Haiku and Any Form of Poetry on the Role of the Researcher | |
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| Framed Photograph and Narrative Writing Exercise | |
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| The Creative Habit | |
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| Resources and Readings | |
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| The Analysis and Writing Habit: Making Sense of the Data, Ethics, and Other Issues | |
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| The Qualitative Researcher as Historian | |
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| Checkpoints for Data Analysis, Reporting, and Interpretation | |
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| Example of Using a Transcript to Get to a Code | |
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| Example of Thinking Through an Analysis | |
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| Ethics and the Qualitative Researcher | |
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| True Stories: Sample Ethical Dilemmas | |
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| Other Issues | |
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| Rules of Thumb for Qualitative Researchers | |
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| Writing the Qualitative Dissertation | |
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| Suggested Sections for the Qualitative Research Proposal | |
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| Attributes of the Qualitative Researcher | |
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| Interpretation of Data | |
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| Some Thoughts on Qualitative Researchers interacting With Institutional Review Boards | |
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| The Analysis and Writing Habit | |
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| Design and Create a Cover for the Researcher Reflective Journal | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Sample Letter to Participants | |
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| Examples of Researcher Reflective Journals | |
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| Sample Interview Protocols From a Completed Study | |
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| Qualitative Research Methods: Sample Syllabus | |
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| Sample Projects From Various Classes | |
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| Sample Consent Form Recently Accepted by the Institutional Review Board | |
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| Conducting Qualitative Interviews: Rules of Thumb | |
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| Sample Sets of Themes and Categories From a Completed Study | |
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| Electronic Resources | |
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| Qualitative Dissertation Costs | |
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| Sample Member Check Form | |
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| Samples of Interview Transcripts (Edited) | |
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| The Analytical Process of Coding | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |