Qualitative Educational Research

<p><em>Qualitative Educational Research </em>is a comprehensive anthology designed to deepen education students' thinking about their qualitative research purposes, questions, and decision-making. Focusing on various epistemological, intellectual, and ethical conflicts in doing social analysis, this<em> </em>reader invites researchers-in-training to explore why, from what perspective, for whose benefit, and with what stakes are research questions being posed. Drawing from her wealth of expertise executing and teaching qualitative research methods, scholar Wendy Luttrell has selected essays that focus specifically on the challenges of qualitative inquiry as they pertain to the field of education. These essays present multiple paradigms and perspectives in qualitative inquiry, including interpretivism, critical theory, cultural studies, feminist theories, critical psychology, and critical race theory. Reflexive writing assignments at the end of the volume expand readers’ understanding of the essays and guide students through developing their own research design. </p> <p>Introduction: The Promise of Qualitative Research in Education</p><p><strong>Section One: On Knowing</strong></p><p>1. Foundations of Qualitative Research for Education, Robert C. Bogdan and Sari Knopp Biklen</p><p>2. The Lives and Values of Researchers, James A. Banks</p><p>3. Studying Urban Schools, Howard S. Becker </p><p>4. Knowledge Accumulation: Three Views on the Nature and Role of Knowledge in Social Science, Jennifer C. Greene </p><p>5. Seeing through Science: Epistemologies, Joey Sprague</p><p>6. On Tricky Ground, Linda Tuhiwai Smith</p><p>7. Practice, Participatory Research and Creative Research Designs: The Evolution of Ethical Guidelines for Research, Walter Haney and M. Brinton Lykes</p><p>8. Unraveling Ethics, Christine Halse and Anne Honey </p><p>9. On Intellectual Craftsmanship, C. Wright Mills</p><p>10. From the Seminar Room, Marjorie L. DeVault</p><p><strong>Section Two: On Doing</strong></p><p>11. Interactive and Reflexive Models of Qualitative Research Design</p><p>12. Culture, Development, Disability, R. P. McDermott and Hervé Varenne </p><p>13. Grounded Theory: Objectivist and Constructivist Methods, Kathy Charmaz</p><p>14. Narrative Inquiry, Susan E. Chase</p><p>15. The Cultural Analysis of Discourse, Naomi Quinn</p><p>16. "Good Enough" Methods for Life-Story Analysis, Wendy Luttrell </p><p>17. Validity: How Might You Be Wrong? Joseph A. Maxwell </p><p>18. Validation in Inquiry-Guided Research: The Role of Exemplars in Narrative Studies, Elliot G. Mishler</p><p>19. Poor Mothers and Habits of Hiding: Participatory Methods in Poverty Research, Lisa Dodson and Leah Schmalzbauer</p><p>20. Don’t Believe the Hype, Ann Arnett Ferguson</p><p><strong>Section Three: On Telling</strong></p><p>21. The Colonizer/Colonized Chicana Ethnographer: Identity, Marginalization, and Co-optation in the Field, Sofia Villenas</p><p>22. "Where Are You Really From?":Representation, Identity and Power in the Fieldwork Experiences of a South Asian Diasporic, Marsha Giselle Henry</p><p>23. White Like Me?: Methods, Meaning, and Manipulation in the Field of White Studies, Charles A. Gallagher</p><p>24. The Power to Know One Thing Is Never the Power to Know All Things: Methodological Notes on Two Studies of Black American Teachers, Michèle Foster</p><p>25. Entering the Inquiry, Susan Talburt </p><p>26. Learning from Kids, Barrie Thorne</p><p>27. Teacher-Researcher Collaboration from Two Perspectives, Polly Ulichny and Wendy Schoener</p><p>28. Writing the "Wrongs" of Fieldwork: Confronting Our Own Research/Writing Dilemmas in Urban Ethnographies, Michelle Fine and Lois Weiss</p><p><strong>Section Four: Reflexive Writing Exercises</strong></p><p>29. Reflexive Writing Exercises, Wendy Luttrell</p><p>30. Summary of Kinds of Responses, Peter Elbow and Pat Belanoff</p><p>31. "Joining In" and "Knowing the I": On Becoming Reflexive Scholars, Rhoda Bernard, Cleti Cervoni, Charlene Desir, and Corinne McKamey </p><p><em>Supplemental Readings</em></p><p><em>Permissions</em></p><p><em>Index</em></p>