This concise, applied, and very clearly written introduction to qualitative research methods can be used effectively in a semester, or year-long course. The purpose of this introductory-level text is to provide the reader with a background for understanding the uses of qualitative research in education to examine its theoretical and historical underpinnings, and to provide the "how-to's" of doing qualitative research. This new edition places qualitative research within current debates about research methods and alternative ways of knowing. While the authors approach the subject from a sociological perspective, they also take care to reflect the many changes in conceptualization of qualitative research brought by post-structural and feminist thought.
- ISBN10 0205512259
- ISBN13 9780205512256
- Publish Date 6 September 2006 (first published 18 December 1981)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 April 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pearson
- Edition 5th edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English