Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials

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"This book is a must for anyone teaching, or wishing to better understand, qualitative research . . . This handbook is destined to be a classic text in the field of qualitative research that belongs on every student's and researcher's bookshelf."


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"This book is a must for anyone teaching, or wishing to better understand, qualitative research . . . This handbook is destined to be a classic text in the field of qualitative research that belongs on every student's and researcher's bookshelf."


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"This book is a must for anyone teaching, or wishing to better understand, qualitative research . . . This handbook is destined to be a classic text in the field of qualitative research that belongs on every student's and researcher's bookshelf." --HARVARD EDUCATIONAL REVIEWCollecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials, the third volume in the paperback version of the Handbook of Qualitative Research, 2nd Edition, considers the tasks of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting empirical materials, and comprises the Handbook's Parts IV ("Methods of Collecting and Analyzing Empirical Materials") and V ("The Art of Interpretation, Evaluation, and Presentation"). Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials introduces the researcher to basic methods of gathering, analyzing and interpreting qualitative empirical materials. Part 1 moves from interviewing to observing, to the use of artifacts, documents and records from the past; to visual, and autoethnographic methods. It then takes up analysis methods, including computer-assisted methodologies, as well as strategies for analyzing talk, and text. Esther Madriz reads focus groups through critical feminist inquiry, and Erve Chambers discusses applied ethnography."This may well be 'the one book on qualitative research' that one would want to take 'to a desert island,' as the editors hope."--JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ETHNOGRAPHYThe Handbook of Qualitative Research, Second Edition is widely considered to be the state of the art in evaluating the field of qualitative inquiry. Now published in paperback in response to the needs of classroom teachers, Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials, Second Edition will be an ideal supplement for a course on research methods, across a wide number of academic disciplines. "The Handbook of Qualitative Research represents a major publishing event. It comprehensively gathers together and organizes rapidly-growing developments in the philosophy, theory, and method of conducting qualitative research." --EVALUATION AND PROGRAM PLANNING


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Considers the tasks of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting empirical materials, and comprises the state of the art in evaluating the field of qualitative inquiry. Softcover.


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This volume is part of a three-volume set that developed out of 1994's Handbook of Qualitative Research, also by Denzin (communications, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Lincoln (higher education, Texas A&M U.). Seventeen chapters discuss paradigms, strategies, and methods of interviews, observations, and archival research. They then discuss analysis methods, including those assisted by computer methodologies. Chapters emphasize historical development of and controversies within methodologies. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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