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• List of Tables and Figures
• Foreword by Michael Quinn Patton
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• 1| Qualitative Research as Learning
• Doing Qualitative Research: Tales of Three Characters
• Defining Qualitative Research
• Common Characteristics
• Typical Purposes and Overall Approaches
• The Characters’ Choices
• Descriptive Studies
• Evaluation or Policy Studies
• Action Research
• Ways of Using Research
• Instrumental Use
• Enlightenment Use
• Symbolic Use
• Transformative Use
• Dispositions and Skills
• Overview of the Book
• Activities for Your Community of Practice
• Further Readings
• 2| The Researcher as Learner
• What Is Learning?
• The Reflexivity of Qualitative Research
• Paradigms
• Interpretivist and Objectivist
• The Nature of Reality
• The Nature of Knowledge and Knowing
• The Nature of Human Agency
• Methodology
• Improvement or Radical Change
• Four Paradigms
• Positivism
• Descriptive Interpretivism
• Critical Humanism
• Critical Realism
• Perspective in Practice
• The Self at Work: Reflexivity
• Establishing Perspective
• Dispositions and Skills
• Activities for Your Community of Practice
• Notes
• Further Readings
• 3| The Researcher as Competent and Ethical
• Why Does Trustworthiness Matter?
• What Makes a Trustworthy Study?
• Systematic Practice
• What Is the Truth Value of This Work?
• What Can the Researcher Do?
• How Rigorously Was the Study Conducted?
• What Can the Researcher Do?
• How Is the Study Useful for Other Situations?
• What Can the Researcher Do?
• General Strategies for Ensuring Credibility and Rigor
• Our Characters’ Strategies
• Beyond Systematicity
• Ethical Practice
• Ethical Reasoning
• Procedural Ethics: Institutional Review Boards
• Challenges in Ethical Practice
• Privacy and Confidentiality
• Deception and Consent
• Trust and Betrayal
• Coping With Micropolitics
• What Can the Researcher Do?
• Our Characters’ Dilemmas and Challenges
• Dispositions and Skills
• Activities for Your Community of Practice
• Notes
• Further Readings
• 4| Major Qualitative Research Genres
• Choosing the Locus of Interest
• Ethnographic Genres
• Internet Ethnographies
• Autoethnographies
• Compressed Ethnographies
• Critical Ethnographies
• Our Characters’ Choices
• Phenomenological Genres
• Our Characters’ Choices
• Sociolinguistic Genres
• Our Characters’ Choices
• Case Studies
• Our Characters’ Choices
• Dispositions and Skills
• Activities for Your Community of Practice
• Further Readings
• 5| Conceptualizing and Planning the Research
• Practical Considerations
• Do-Ability
• Want-to-Do-Ability
• Should-Do-Ability
• What Is a Research Proposal?
• Conceptual Framework
• Use of the Literature
• Introduction
• The Topic
• Statement of the Research Problem or Issue
• Our Characters’ Choices
• Purpose
• Our Characters’ Choices
• Significance
• Overview Questions and Subquestions
• Our Characters’ Choices
• Limitations
• Design and Methods
• Overall Genre and Rationale
• Site or Population Selection and Sampling Strategies
• Data-Gathering Procedures
• Data Management and Preliminary Analysis Procedures
• Dispositions and Skills
• Activities for Your Community of Practice
• Further Readings
• 6| Entering the Field
• Preparation
• Intended Involvement
• Degree of Involvement
• Portrayal of Involvement
• Approach and Negotiations
• Time
• Introduction and Invitation
• Obtaining Permission
• Expectations and Relationships
• Reciprocity
• Organizational Gatekeepers
• Dispositions and Skills
• Activities for Your Community of Practice
• Further Readings
• 7| Gathering Data in the Field
• Decisions About Gathering Data
• Depth or Breadth
• Prefigured or Open Ended
• Ebb and Flow
• Systematic Inquiry
• Data That Inform the Research Questions
• Data About the Process and Yourself
• Generic In-Depth Interviewing
• Types of Interviews
• Strengths and Limitations of Interviewing
• Social Group Identities
• Follow-Up Questions
• Specialized In-Depth Interviewing
• Interviewing Within Ethnographic Genres
• Interviewing Within Phenomenological Genres
• Narrative Inquiry Interviewing
• Interviewing and Sociolinguistic Genres
• Special Considerations
• Interviewing Elites or Experts
• Focus Group Interviewing
• Interviewing Children
• Interviewing Using Computer Applications and the Internet
• Digital Storytelling
• Transcribing and Translating
• Observing People, Actions, and Events
• Taking Field Notes
• Making Raw Field Notes Usable
• Studying Material Culture
• Dispositions and Skills
• Activities for Your Community of Practice
• Further Readings
• 8| Issues That Arise in the Field
• How Do I Prepare to Gather Data?
• Our Characters
• How Can I Get Comfortable in the Field?
• What Are the Data?
• How Do I Turn Sights, Sounds, and Objects Into Data?
• Two Languages: Which Do I Use?
• How Can I Change My Research Plan?
• What Do I Reflect On?
• How Do I Leave the Field?
• Dispositions and Skills
• Activities for Your Community of Practice
• Further Readings
• 9| Our Characters’ Data
• Anthony’s Data
• Field Notes 1
• 10/10. 12:15–1:00 p.m. Community Arts Center Office
• Field Notes 2
• 11/3. 4:00–6:15 p.m. Watercolor Class
• Interview 1
• 11/8
• Interview 2
• 11/15
• Marla’s Data
• Interview 1
• 10/22
• Interview 2
• 10/23
• Field Notes 1
• 10/10. 6:46 p.m. Clinic. Observation by Julia
• Field Notes 2
• 11/3. Clinic Observation. Early Evening (5:30 p.m.). Observation by Aida
• Field Notes 3
• 11/9. 9:00 p.m. Clinic Observation
• Ruth’s Data
• Field Notes 1
• 9/24. Culverton After School Center
• Field Notes 2
• 10/3. Culverton After School Center
• Interview 1
• 10/5. Second Interview With Mark
• Interview 2
• 10/9. First Interview With Katrine
• Activities for Your Community of Practice
• 10| Analyzing and Interpreting Data
• Analysis Happens
• Analysis Is Ongoing
• Categorical or Holistic Analysis
• Thick Description
• Quantifying Qualitative Data
• Analysis Related to Qualitative Genres
• Generic Analysis
• Organizing the Data
• Our Characters
• Familiarizing Yourself With the Data
• Identifying Categories and Generating Themes
• Coding
• Interpretation
• Searching for Alternative Understandings
• Writing the Report
• Writing In-Process Analytic Memos
• Strategies for Analyzing Interview Data
• Analyzing Ethnographic Interview Data
• Analyzing Phenomenological Interview Data
• Analyzing Narrative Interview Data
• Analyzing Voice-Centered Interview Data
• Analyzing Sociolinguistic Data
• Strategies for Analyzing Field Notes From Observations
• Strategies for Analyzing Material Culture
• Dispositions and Skills
• Activities for Your Community of Practice
• Further Readings
• 11| Our Characters’ Analyses
• Anthony’s Analysis
• Analytic Memo: What Participation Means
• Attendance
• A Culture of Inclusion
• Ruth’s Analysis
• On Agency
• Sense of Efficacy
• Acceptance
• Next Steps
• Marla’s Analysis
• Memo 1: Collaborative Analysis: The Process and Some Preliminary Insights
• Memo 2: Taking Action
• Dispositions and Skills
• Activities for Your Community of Practice
• 12| Presenting the Learnings
• Presentation
• Audience and Purpose
• Possible Formats
• Voice
• An Example
• Thick Description: Starr
• Analysis: “It’s Not Easy Being a Member of the Model Minority”
• Play: Scene Based on a Doctoral Dissertation With Six Asian American Girls
• Characters
• Scene I
• Organizing the Report
• Chronology
• Life History
• Themes
• Composite
• Critical Events
• Portraits
• Using the Dispositions and Skills to Generate Useful Knowledge
• Activities for Your Community of Practice
• Notes
• Further Readings
• References
• Index