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Qualitative inquiry & research design : choosing among five approaches / John W. Creswell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, [2007]Copyright date: �2007Edition: 2nd edDescription: xvii, 395 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1412916062
  • 9781412916066
  • 1412916070
  • 9781412916073
Other title:
  • Qualitative inquiry and research design
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 300.72 22
LOC classification:
  • H61 .C73 2007
Contents:
Introduction -- Philosophical, paradigm, and interpretive frameworks -- Designing a qualitative study -- Five qualitative approaches to inquiry -- Five different qualitative studies -- Introducing and focusing the study -- Data collection -- Data analysis and representation -- Writing a qualitative study -- Standards of validation and evaluation -- "Turning the story" and conclusion.
Summary: This new version of the text explores the philosophical underpinnings, history, and key elements of each of five qualitative inquiry traditions: narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case study. In this text, John W. Creswell, relates research designs to each of the traditions of inquiry. Creswell compares theoretical frameworks, ways to employ standards of quality, and strategies for writing introductions to studies, collecting data, analyzing data, writing a narrative, and verifying results.
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Previous ed. cataloged as: Qualitative inquiry and research design : choosing among five traditions / John W. Creswell.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-369) and indexes.

Introduction -- Philosophical, paradigm, and interpretive frameworks -- Designing a qualitative study -- Five qualitative approaches to inquiry -- Five different qualitative studies -- Introducing and focusing the study -- Data collection -- Data analysis and representation -- Writing a qualitative study -- Standards of validation and evaluation -- "Turning the story" and conclusion.

This new version of the text explores the philosophical underpinnings, history, and key elements of each of five qualitative inquiry traditions: narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case study. In this text, John W. Creswell, relates research designs to each of the traditions of inquiry. Creswell compares theoretical frameworks, ways to employ standards of quality, and strategies for writing introductions to studies, collecting data, analyzing data, writing a narrative, and verifying results.

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