Handbook of Qualitative ResearchThe Handbook is the first attempt to synthesize the huge amount of activity and change there has been in recent years in qualitative research. Contributors to this authoritative volume come from a diverse range of disciplines and countries, making it an essential resource and benchmark for anyone doing work in this international, interdisciplinary tradition. The book moves from the theoretical to the specific, examining the various paradigms for doing qualitative work, the strategies developed for studying people in their setting, and a variety of techniques for collecting, analyzing, interpreting and reporting findings. Issues of history, ethics, settings and the future of the discipline - both in traditional and ap |
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... inquiry em- phasize the systematic testing of theory in live - ac- tion contexts . The implication of this epistemology of action is that the primary outcome of all these forms of inquiry is a change in the lived experience of those ...
... inquiry em- phasize the systematic testing of theory in live - ac- tion contexts . The implication of this epistemology of action is that the primary outcome of all these forms of inquiry is a change in the lived experience of those ...
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... inquiry is an emergent process that partici- pants are first led through , amend and develop in the light of their experience , and finally embrace as their own . Action inquiry includes the con- struction of " liberating structures ...
... inquiry is an emergent process that partici- pants are first led through , amend and develop in the light of their experience , and finally embrace as their own . Action inquiry includes the con- struction of " liberating structures ...
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... inquiry is a discipline relevant to those most deeply com- mitted to participative approaches to inquiry , per- sons who wish to play leadership roles in cultivat- ing this process with others and who wish to inquire about their actual ...
... inquiry is a discipline relevant to those most deeply com- mitted to participative approaches to inquiry , per- sons who wish to play leadership roles in cultivat- ing this process with others and who wish to inquire about their actual ...
Contents
Locating the Field | 19 |
Traditions Preferences and Postures in Applied Qualitative Research | 60 |
Reinventing Self and Other in Qualitative Research | 70 |
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