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This four-volume set is part of the Fundamentals of Applied Research series and sits alongside Stephen Gorard's major reference collection Quantitative Research Methods in Education. It brings together seminal and cutting edge articles on qualitative research internationally, and shows how the field has developed in influence in recent years. The use of qualitative research methods in educational research has a long and distinguished history, both in the UK and internationally. Importantly, this major reference collection reviews the ongoing debates and various issues about qualitative methods and the contribution they make to understanding educational issues. The set also comprises a timely analysis of the contribution which qualitative methods have made and can continue to make to understanding educational issues.
The volumes review the methodological arguments for using ...
Editor's Introduction: Qualitative Research Methods in Education
Background to the Handbook's Development
Qualitative research attempts to come to an understanding of a situation from the perspective of the participants within it. This involves the researcher talking to people, observing them in their ‘natural working habitat’ of the school or the hospital or the local community, and analysing artefacts and documents that might be produced in such working environments. Qualitative research can also involve extensive collaboration and negotiation with research respondents or participants, over the design, conduct and findings of such research, as will be explored in the course of this Introduction. For the moment however, we can briefly summarise the approach as involving the use of interview, observation, document analysis and various combinations thereof.
The use of ...
Table of Contents
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Volume I: Theoretical Origins of Qualitative Research Methods in Education
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Anthropology, Symbolic Interactionism, Phenomenology, Ethnomethodology and the Social Construction of Knowledge and Action in Everyday Life
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1. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture
Clifford Geertz
1973
The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays
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2. Extracts from Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method
Herbert Blumer
1969
Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method
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3. Extracts from Collected Papers I: The Problem of Social Reality
Alfred Schutz
1962
Collected Papers I: The Problem of Social Reality
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4. Extracts from Studies in Ethnomethodology
Harold Garfinkel
1967
Studies in Ethnomethodology
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5. Extracts from the Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Erving Goffman
1959
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
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Case Study, Ethnography and Evaluation
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6. Extracts from Boys in White: Student Culture in Medical School
Howard Becker | Blanche Geer | Everett Hughes | Anselm Strauss
1961
Boys in White: Student Culture in Medical School
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7. Extracts from the Man in the Principal's Office: An Ethnography
Harry Wolcott
1973
The Man in the Principal's Office: An Ethnography
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8. Structuring School Structure
Hugh Mehan
1978
Harvard Educational Review
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9. Extracts from Social Relations in a Secondary School
David Hargreaves
1967
Social Relations in a Secondary School
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10. Extracts from Problems of Sociological Fieldwork: A Review of the Methodology of Hightown Grammar
Colin Lacey
1976
The Process of Schooling: A Sociological Reader
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11. Extracts from Beachside Comprehensive: A Case-study of Secondary Schooling
Stephen Ball
1981
Beachside Comprehensive: A Case-study of Secondary Schooling
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12. The Countenance of Evaluation
Robert Stake
1967
Teachers College Record
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13. Evaluation and the Control of Education
Barry MacDonald
1987
Evaluating Education: Issues and Methods
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14. The Conduct of Educational Case Study: Ethics, Theory and Procedures
Rob Walker
1974
Innovation, Evaluation Research and the Problem of Control
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15. The Case Study Method in Social Inquiry
Robert Stake
1978
Educational Researcher
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16. The Imagination of the Case and the Invention of the Study
Stephen Kemmis
1980
Towards a Science of the Singular
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17. Evaluation as Illumination: A New Approach to the Study of Innovatory Programmes
Malcolm Parlett | David Hamilton
1987
Evaluating Education: Issues and Methods
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Lawrence Stenhouse
1976
An Introduction to Curriculum Research and Development
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19. Extracts from Fourth Generation Evaluation
Egon Guba | Yvonna Lincoln
1989
Fourth Generation Evaluation
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20. The Deliberative Democratic View
Ernest House | Kenneth Howe
1999
Values in Evaluation and Social Research
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Volume II: Language, Philosophy and Politics – Additional Theoretical Tributaries and Methodological Developments in Qualitative Research in Education
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Other Contributory Social Scientific Traditions: Classroom Interaction Studies; Critical Discourse Analysis; Language Acquisition and Use; Cultural Capital; Sociology of the Curriculum; Cultural Psychology; Critical Psychology
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21. Extracts from Class, Codes and Control: Theoretical Studies towards a Sociology of Language
Basil Bernstein
1971
Class, Codes and Control: Theoretical Studies towards a Sociology of Language
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22. Extracts from the Forms of Capital
Pierre Bourdieu
1986
Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education
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Michael Young
1971
Knowledge and Control: New Directions for the Sociology of Education
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Gaby Weiner
1994
Feminisms in Education: An Introduction
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25. Extracts from Common Knowledge: The Development of Understanding in the Classroom
Derek Edwards | Neil Mercer
1987
Common Knowledge: The Development of Understanding in the Classroom
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26. Text and Discourse in Education: An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis
Allan Luke
1995
Review of Research in Education
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27. Introduction: Thinking and Learning in Social Context
Barbara Rogoff
1984
Everyday Cognition: Its Development in Social Context
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28. Extracts from Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation
Jean Lave | Etienne Wenger
1991
Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation
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29. Extracts from Discourse and Cognition
Derek Edwards
1997
Discourse and Cognition
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Valerie Walkerdine
1993
Theory & Psychology
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Engaging with Philosophy and the Humantities: Developing the Political, Ethical, Epistemological and Emancipatory Implications of Qualitative Approaches for Changing Educational and Social Practices: Qualitative Methods as a Political and Post-structural Project
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31. Extracts from Action Research for Educational Change
John Elliott
1991
Action Research for Educational Change
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Patti Lathre
1986
Harvard Educational Review
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33. Poststructural Feminism in Education: An Overview
Elizabeth St. Pierre
2000
Qualitative Studies in Education
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34. Transformative Approaches to Student Voice: Theoretical Underpinnings, Recalcitrant Realities
Michael Fielding
2004
British Educational Research Journal
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35. Silence Speaks: Whiteness Revealed in the Absence of Voice
Lisa Mazzei
2008
Teaching and Teacher Education
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Dan Goodley
1999
Qualitative Inquiry
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Laurence Parker | Marvin Lynn
2002
Qualitative Inquiry
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38. On Tricky Ground: Researching the Native in the Age of Uncertainty
Linda Smith
2005
The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research
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39. Rhizovocality
Alecia Jackson
2003
Qualitative Studies in Education
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40. Aesthetics and the Practices of Qualitative Inquiry
Norman Denzin
2000
Qualitative Inquiry
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41. The Bone in the Throat: Some Uncertain Thoughts on Baroque Method
Maggie MacLure
2006
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
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Volume III: Key Substantive Fields and Topics of Inquiry in Qualitative Research in Education
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Social Scientific Topics and Issues
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42. Extracts from Life in Classrooms
Philip Jackson
1990
Life in Classrooms
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43. A Model of Classroom Coping Strategies
Andrew Pollard
1982
British Journal of Sociology of Education
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44. Coping at School through Humour
Peter Woods
1983
British Journal of Sociology of Education
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45. Extracts from Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs
Paul Willis
1977
Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs
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46. Deadlier than the Male? Girl's Conformity and Deviance in School
Lynn Davies
1979
Schools, Pupils and Deviance
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47. Cherokee School Society and the Intercultural Classroom
Robert Dumont | Murray Wax
1969
Human Organization
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48. Empowerment and Cultural Conflict: Navajo Parents and the Schooling of Their Children
Donna Deyhle
1991
Qualitative Studies in Education
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49. The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children
Lisa Delpit
1988
Harvard Educational Review
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Máirtín an Ghaill
1989
Qualitative Studies in Education
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Naz Rassool
1999
British Journal of Sociology of Education
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52. Who Is ‘Us’? Students Negotiating Discourses of Racism and National Identification in Australia
Julie McLeod | Lyn Yates
2003
Race Ethnicity and Education
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53. I Don't Need This: Acts of Transgression by Students with Special Educational Needs
Julie Allan
1999
Inclusive Education: International Voices on Disability and Justice
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Deborah Youdell
2005
Gender and Education
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55. Becoming Schoolgirls: The Ambivalent Project of Subjectification
Bronwyn Davies | Suzy Dormer | Sue Gannon | Cath Laws | Sharn Rocco | Hillevi Taguchi | Helen McCann
2001
Gender and Education
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Investigating Education Policy and Practice
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56. Extracts from the Man in the Principal's Office: An Ethnography
Harry Wolcott
1973
The Man in the Principal's Office: An Ethnography
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57. The Reconstruction of Primary Teachers' Identities
Peter Woods | Bob Jeffrey
2002
British Journal of Sociology of Education
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58. Good School/Bad School: Paradox and Fabrication
Stephen Ball
1997
British Journal of Sociology of Education
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59. ‘I'll Be a Nothing’: Structure, Agency and the Construction of Identity through Assessment
Diane Reay | Dylan Wiliam
1999
British Educational Research Journal
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60. Extracts from High Stakes Education: Inequality, Globalization, and Urban School Reform
Pauline Lipman
2004
High Stakes Education: Inequality, Globalization, and Urban School Reform
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61. Investigating Formative Classroom Assessment
Harry Torrance | John Pryor
2004
Learning to Read Critically in Teaching and Learning
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Andy Hargreaves | Ivor Goodson
2006
Educational Administration Quarterly
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Volume IV: Contemporary Methods, Issues and Debates in Qualitative Research in Education - Ethics, Science, Policy and Politics
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63. Extracts from Action Research: A Methodology for Change and Development
Bridget Somekh
2006
Action Research: A Methodology for Change and Development
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Ivor Goodson
1997
Teaching and Teacher Education
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Pat Sikes
2005
Qualitative Research
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66. Visual Methods and the Visual Culture of Schools
Jon Prosser
2007
Visual Studies
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Bella Dicks | Bambo Soyinka | Amanda Coffey
2006
Qualitative Research
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68. Ethnography and Data Reuse: Issues of Context and Hypertext
Bella Dicks | Bruce Mason | Matt Williams | Amanda Coffey
2006
Methodological Innovations On-line
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69. Multiple Methods in Qualitative Research with Children: More Insight or Just More?
Philip Darbyshire | Colin MacDougall | Wendy Schiller
2005
Qualitative Research
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70. Developing an Emancipatory Research Agenda: Possibilities and Dilemmas
Len Barton
1998
Articulating with Difficulty: Research Voices in Inclusive Education
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71. Ethics, Institutional Review Boards, and the Changing Face of Educational Research
Kenneth Howe | Katharine Dougherty
1993
Educational Researcher
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72. Qualitative Research and Institutional Review Boards
Yvonna Lincoln | William Tierney
2004
Qualitative Inquiry
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Paul Atkinson
2009
21st Century Society
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74. Research Ethical Guidelines and Anonymity
Geoffrey Walford
2005
International Journal of Research & Method in Education
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75. Rethinking Ethics Review as Institutional Discourse
Christine Halse | Anne Honey
2007
Qualitative Inquiry
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76. ‘Caught in the Act’: Ethics Committee Review and Researching the Sexual Culture of Schools
Louisa Allen
2009
Qualitative Research
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77. ‘Reading’ the Nursery Classroom: A Foucauldian Perspective
Liz Jones | Tony Brown
2001
Qualitative Studies in Education
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78. Deterritorializations: Putting Postmodernism to Work on Teacher Education and Inclusion
Julie Allan
2004
Educational Philosophy and Theory
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79. Scientific Culture and Educational Research
Michael Feuer | Lisa Towne | Richard Shavelson
2002
Educational Researcher
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80. Comments: Culture, Rigor, and Science in Educational Research
Frederick Erickson | Kris Gutierrez
2002
Educational Researcher
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Patti Lather
2004
Qualitative Inquiry
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82. The Issue of Quality in Qualitative Research
Martyn Hammersley
2007
International Journal of Research & Method in Education
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83. ‘Clarity Bordering on Stupidity’: Where's the Quality in Systematic Review?
Maggie MacLure
2005
Journal of Education Policy
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84. Synthesis through Meta-Ethnography: Paradoxes, Enhancements, and Possibilities
Lynn Doyle
2003
Qualitative Research
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85. How Can Systematic Reviews Incorporate Qualitative Research? A Critical Perspective
Mary Dixon-Woods | Sheila Bonas | Andrew Booth | David Jones | Tina Miller | Alex Sutton | Rachel Shaw | Jonathan Smith | Bridget Young
2006
Qualitative Research
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86. Building Confidence in Qualitative Research: Engaging the Demands of Policy
Harry Torrance
2008
Qualitative Inquiry
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