Qualitative research design : an interactive approach

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Title:

Qualitative research design : an interactive approach

Author:

Maxwell, Joseph Alex, 1941-

ISBN:

9780761926085

9780761926078

Personal Author:

Maxwell, Joseph Alex, 1941-

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication Information:

Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, c2005.

Physical Description:

xiv, 174 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series:

Applied social research methods series ; no. 41

Series Title:

Applied social research methods series ; no. 41

Contents:

1. A model for qualitative research design -- 2. Goals : why are you doing this study? -- 3. Conceptual framework : what do you think is going on? -- 4. Research questions : what do you want to understand? -- 5. Methods : what will you actually do? -- 6. Validity : how might you be wrong? -- 7. Research proposals : presenting and justifying a qualitative study -- App. An example of a qualitative proposal.

Abstract:

"Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach, Second Edition provides researchers and students a user-friendly step-by-step guide to planning qualitative research. A bestseller in its first edition, this book presents an innovative approach to the components of design and how they interact with each other. The text presents a clear strategy for creating coherent and workable relationships among these design components and highlights key design issues. Based on a course the author taught for seven years at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the work is written in an informal, jargon-free style and incorporates many examples and hands-on exercises." "Experienced researchers will welcome author Joseph A. Maxwell's refreshing approach and clear, direct style, and professors across the social sciences will find this an invaluable text for graduate research courses."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Research -- Methodology.

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Qualitative Research Design gives researchers and students a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to planning qualitative research. Based on a course that the author taught for 7 years at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, it is written in an informal, jargon-free style and incorporates many examples and hands-on exercises. Rather than the rigid, linear approach to design usually found in research methods textbooks, which is particularly unsuited to qualitative research, the book presents a flexible, systemic model of design. This model not only better fits what experienced qualitative researchers actually do, but provides a clear framework for designing a study and developing a research proposal. This edition includes new or substantially expanded discussions of research paradigms, defining a research problem, site and participant selection, relationships with research participants, data analysis, and validity, as well as more examples and exercises.