Qualitative Research: An Introduction to Methods and Designs Book

Tables, Figures, and Exhibits xi

Preface xiii

The Editors xix

The Contributors xxi

Part One A Qualitative Frame of Mind

1 Introduction to Qualitative Research 3
Stephen D. Lapan, MaryLynn T. Quartaroli, and Frances Julia Riemer

2 Ethics in Qualitative Research in Education and the Social Sciences 19
Donna M. Mertens

3 Grounded Theory 41
Robert Thornberg, Kathy Charmaz

4 Methodology, Methods, and Tools in Qualitative Research 69
Jean J. Schensul

Part Two Drawing on the Disciplines

5 Biography and Life Story Research 107
Cynthia E. Winston

6 Mystery Solved: Detective Skills and the Historian's Craft 137
Laurie Moses Hines

7 Ethnographic Research 163
Frances Julia Riemer

8 Trekking Through Autoethnography 189
Tony E. Adams, Carolyn Ellis

Part Three Integrating the Disciplines

9 Narrative Inquiry: Stories Lived, Stories Told 215
Christine K. Lemley, Roland W. Mitchell

10 Case Study Research 243
Tricia S. Moore, Stephen D. Lapan, MaryLynn T. Quartaroli

11 Arts-Based Research 271
Sharon Verner Chappell, Tom Barone

12 Practitioner Action Research 291
Stephen D. Lapan

13 Program Evaluation 321
MaryLynn T. Quartaroli

Part Four Emancipatory Discourses

14 Preliminary Considerations of an African American Culturally Responsive Evaluation System 347
Pamela Frazier-Anderson, Stafford Hood, Rodney K. Hopson

15 What Makes Critical Ethnography "Critical"? 373
Angelina E. Castagno

16 Feminist Research 391
Lucy E. Bailey

17 Reclaiming Scholarship: Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies 423
Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Heather R. Gough, Beth Leonard, Roy F. Roehl II, Jessica A. Solyom

18 Democratizing Qualitative Research 451
Ernest R. House

References 473

Index 509