Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach (Applied Social Research Methods)

This book gives researchers and students a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to planning qualitative research. Based on a course that the author taught for 7 years at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, it is written in an informal, jargon-free style and incorporates many examples and hands-on exercises. Rather than the rigid, linear approach to design that is usually found in research methods textbooks--and which is particularly ill suited for qualitative research--this book presents a flexible, systemic model of design. This model not only better fits what experienced qualitative researchers actually do, but provides a clear framework for designing a study and developing a research proposal. This edition includes new or substantially expanded discussions of research paradigms, defining a research problem, site and participant selection, relationships with research participants, data analysis, and validity, as well as more examples and exercises.

• | Author: Joseph A. Maxwell
• | Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• | Publication Date: June 08, 2013
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1412981190
• | ISBN-13: 9781412981194