Gretchen B Rossman & Sharon F Rallis 
An Introduction to Qualitative Research [EPUB ebook] 
Learning in the Field

The updated
Fourth Edition of Rossman and Rallis’s popular introductory text leads the new researcher into the field by explaining the core concepts through theory, research, and applied examples. Woven into the chapters are three themes that are the heart of the book: first, research is about learning; second, research can and should be useful; and finally, a researcher should practice the highest ethical standards to ensure that a study is trustworthy. The
Fourth Edition includes an elaborate discussion of systematic inquiry as well as a nuanced discussion of developing a conceptual framework.

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1. Qualitative Research as Learning

Doing Qualitative Research: Tales of Three Characters

Defining Qualitative Research

Common Characteristics

Typical Purposes and Overall Approaches

The Characters′ Choices

Ways of Using Research

Dispositions and Skills

Overview of the Book

Activities for Your Community of Practice

Further Reading

2. The Researcher as Learner

What is Learning?

The Reflexivity of Qualitative Research

Paradigms

Perspective in Practice

Dispositions and Skills

Activities for Your Community of Practice

Further Reading

3. The Researcher as Competent and Ethical

What Does Trustworthiness Matter?

What Makes a Trustworthy Study?

Systematic Practice

Ethical Practice

Dispositions and Skills

Activities for Your Community of Practice

Further Reading

4. Major Qualitative Research Genres

Choosing the Locus of Interest

Ethnographic Genres

Phenomenological Genres

Sociolinguist Genres

Case Studies

Dispositions and Skills

Activities for Your Community of Practice

Further Reading

5. Conceptualizing and Planning the Research

Practical Considerations

What is a Research Proposal?

Conceptual Framework

Design and Methods

Dispositions and Skills

Activities for Your Community of Practice

Further Reading

6. Entering the Field

Preparation

Intended Involvement

Approach and Negotiations

Expectations and Relationships

Dispositions and Skills

Activities for Your Community of Practice

Further Reading

7. Gathering Data in the Field

Decisions About Gathering Data

Systematic Inquiry

Generic In-Depth Interviewing

Specialized In-Depth Interviewing

Special Considerations

Observing People, Actions, and Events

Studying Material Culture

Dispositions and Skills

Activities for Your Community of Practice

Further Reading

8. Issues That Arise in the Field

How Do I Prepare to Gather Data?

How Can I Get Comfortable in the Field?

What are the Data?

How Do I Turn Sights, Sounds, and Objects Into Data?

Two Languages: Which Do I Use?

How Can I Change My Research Plan?

What Do I Reflect On?

How Do I Leave the Field?

Dispositions and Skills

Activities for Your Community of Practice

Further Reading

9. Our Character′s Data

Anthony′s Data

Marla′s Data

Ruth′s Data

Activities for Your Community of Practice

10. Analyzing and Interpreting Data

Analysis Happens

Generic Analysis

Writing In-Process Analytic Memos

Strategies for Analyzing Interview Data

Strategies for Analyzing Field Notes From Observations

Strategies for Analyzing Material Culture

Dispositions and Skills

Activities for Your Community of Practice

Further Reading

11. Our Characters′ Analyses

Anthony′s Analysis

Ruth′s Analysis

Marla′s Analysis

Dispositions and Skills

Activities for Your Community of Practice

12. Presenting the Learnings

Presentation

Voice

An Example

Organizing the Report

Using the Dispositions and Skills to Generate Useful Knowledge

Activities for Your Community of Practice

Further Reading

Giới thiệu về tác giả

Sharon F. Rallis is Dwight W. Allen Distinguished Professor of Education Policy and Reform at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Previously, she was professor of education at the University of Connecticut; lecturer on education at Harvard; and associate professor of educational leadership at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. Her doctorate is from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has coauthored numerous books, including several on leadership: Principals of Dynamic Schools: Taking Charge of Change (with Ellen Goldring); Dynamic Teachers: Leaders of Change (with Gretchen Rossman); Leading Dynamic Schools: How to Create and Implement Ethical Policies (with Gretchen Rossman and others); and Leading With Inquiry and Action: How Principals Improve Teaching and Learning (with Matthew Militello and Ellen Goldring). Her numerous articles, book chapters, edited volumes, and technical reports address issues of research and evaluation methodology, ethical practice in research and evaluation, education policy and leadership, and school reform.A past-president of the American Evaluation Association (2005) and current editor of the American Journal of Evaluation, Professor Rallis has been involved with education and evaluation for more than three decades. She has been a teacher, counselor, principal, researcher, program evaluator, director of a major federal school reform initiative, and an elected school board member. Currently, her teaching includes courses on inquiry, program evaluation, qualitative methodology, and organizational theory. Her research has focused on the local implementation of programs driven by federal, state, or district policies. As external evaluator or principal investigator (PI), she has studied a variety of domestic and international policy and reform efforts, such as alternative professional development for leaders; collaborations between agencies responsible for educating incarcerated or institutionalized youth; initiatives supporting inclusive education for children and youth with disabilities; local school governance and leadership; labor-management relations in school districts; and leadership development. Her work with students on evaluation and qualitative methodology has taken her as far as Afghanistan, Turkey, and Palestine.