Catherine Marshall & Gretchen B Rossman 
Designing Qualitative Research [PDF ebook] 

Offering clear, easy-to-understand guidance on designing qualitative research, this fully updated
Seventh Edition of Marshall and Rossman’s bestselling text retains the useful examples, tools, and vignettes that makes it such an outstanding resource. The book takes students from selecting a research genre through building a conceptual framework, data collection and interpretation, and arguing the merits of the proposal. Now featuring a new co-author, Gerardo L. Blanco, this edition includes more on the history and new emerging genres of qualitative inquiry, as well as a more sustained and deeper focus on social media and other digital applications in conducting qualitative research. New application activities provide opportunities for students to try out ideas, while timely vignettes illustrate the methodological challenges posed by the intellectual, ethical, political, and technological advances affecting society.



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Inhoudsopgave

List of Tables

List of Figures

List of Vignettes

List of Application Activities

Preface to the Seventh Edition

About the Authors

Chapter 1. Introduction

Considerations

The Challenges

Developing an Argument

Overview of the Book

Opportunities and Challenges

Further Reading

Key Concepts

Chapter 2. Qualitative Research Genres

Canonical Genres

Critical Genres

Opportunities and Challenges

Further Reading

Key Concepts

Chapter 3. Credibility, Trustworthiness, and Ethics

Trustworthiness

Bringing Ethics, Relationships, and Identity Into Trustworthiness

Researcher Identity, Voice, and Relationships

Field Notes

Ethics and Institutional Reviews

Opportunities and Challenges

Further Reading

Key Concepts

Chapter 4. The What of the Study: Building the Conceptual Framework

Sections of the Proposal

Building the Conceptual Framework: Topic, Purpose, and Significance

Literature Review and Critique of Related Research

Opportunities and Challenges

Further Reading

Key Concepts

Chapter 5. The How of the Study: Building the Research Design

Meeting the Challenge

Justifying Qualitative Research

The Qualitative Genre and Overall Approach

The Setting, Site, Population, or Phenomenon

Within Sites: Sampling People, Actions, Events, and Processes

Personal Biography, Positionality, Ongoing Relationships, and Reciprocity

Time and Resources: Making Some Tough Choices

Opportunities and Challenges

Further Reading

Key Concepts

Chapter 6. Basic Data Collection Methods

Observation

In-Depth Interviewing

Life Histories and Narrative Inquiry

Opportunities and Challenges

Further Reading

Key Concepts

Chapter 7. Specialized and Focused Data Collection Methods

Collecting Content and Text From Documents and Other Media

Using the Internet and Digital Applications

Multimodal Approaches

Interaction Analysis

Hypotheticals

Dilemma Analysis

Games and Simulations

Combining Data Collection Methods

Opportunities and Challenges

Further Reading

Key Concepts

Chapter 8. Managing, Analyzing, and Interpreting Data

Recording, Managing, Transcribing, and Translating Data

Data Analysis

Generic Data Analysis Strategies

Analytic Procedures

Challenges and Opportunities

Further Reading

Key Concepts

Chapter 9. Arguing the Merits of Your Proposal and Moving Forward

Criteria of Soundness

The Essential Qualitativeness and Value of the Research

Demonstrating Precedents

Envisioning the Final Report, the Dissertation, the Book, or Something Else

Opportunities and Challenges

A Final Word

Further Reading

Key Concepts

References

Index

Over de auteur

Gerardo L. Blanco is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Higher Education, and Academic Director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College’s Lynch School of Education and Human Development. He received his Ed.D. in Educational Policy and Leadership, with a concentration in Higher Education, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Prior to joining Boston College, he served on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Boston and at the University of Connecticut. His research explores the intersections of quality and internationalization in higher education and is motivated by a commitment to global social justice and a deep curiosity for the ways higher education institutions define,  improve and communicate their value to different stakeholder groups. The author of over 30 journal articles to date, his research has been published in Higher Education,  Studies in Higher Education, the Comparative Education Review, and the Review of Higher Education. In 2017, he received the “Best Research Article Award” from the Comparative & International Education Society’s Higher Education SIG. In 2014 and 2020, his work received honorable mentions from the same organization. Blanco is a Fulbright Specialist; his teaching, research and consulting have taken place in 15 countries and 5 continents. He has been a visiting faculty member at Shaanxi Normal University (China), visiting expert at the International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER) at the University of Kassel (Germany) and teaching fellow at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Poland).