books: qualitative inquiry ...     books:       The SAGE Dictionary of Qualitative Inquiry5 reviews Sage Publications, Inc, 2007 All About "Qualitative Inquiry" I have been using Thomas Schwandt's second edition of the "Dictionary of Qualitative Inquiry" for many years now. When his new third edition became available, I knew I needed it in my reference library. This book goes beyond just definitions and adds brief discussions of most items. This gives an indepth context for better understanding. The author also suggests other key references. These are ...             Playbuilding as Qualitative Research: The Collective Creation of Dramatic Representation (Developing ...1 review Joe Norris Left Coast Press, Inc., 2009 Excellent Guide for Playbuilding as Qualitative Research Devising and performing theatrical work are sometimes perceived by non-practitioners as mysterious and elusive processes. But Joe Norris's "Playbuilding as Qualitative Research" accessibly documents the empirically-grounded and socially-conscious productions of Canada's renowned Mirror Theatre for a broad readership in the communities of education, sociology, social work, human communication, ...             Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry4 reviews, 1998 A must have in the field of qualitative Research Needless to say, that the Handbook of Qualitative Research is something that is essential to follow the discourse in this particular field in the United States. The Landscape issues, one of which is presented here, are published in between the regular reeditions of the handbook and are essential too, because the authors contributions differ sometimes from the ones of the regular handbook ...             The Pull of the Earth: Participatory Ethnography in the School Garden (Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry)1 review Laurie Thorp AltaMira Press, 2005 Excellent teaching strategies This book is a must for teachers (and parents) who want students to learn...Too bad we don't have more opportunities such as the ones in this book for our students--we are so BUSY trying to leave NO CHILD BEHIND that so many are being left way behind...test...test...test... Hope the trend for testing reverts AGAIN one day... loved this book...             Dictionary of Qualitative Inquiry2 reviews Thomas A. Schwandt Sage Publications, Inc, 2001 Excellent resource! This book covers a wide array of issues related to qualitative research, and does so in a thorough, illuminating, and very readable way. Schwandt is a true scholar, and one of the most sophisticated thinkers on current conceptual and methodological issues in social inquiry. I have used this book numerous times to broaden and clarify my own understanding of these issues. Schwnadt's dictionary ...             Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre (Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry)1 review Johnny Salda-a AltaMira Press, 2005 Good overview with examples Ethnodrama provides a wonderful overview of the field and the types of plays being created in this genre along with a variety of examples for people are who interested in seeing the breadth that can be covered. This is the first anthology I have found that has collected ethnodramas from different authors and that variety offers very useful examples for beginners. Johnny Saldana's introduction ...             Qualitative Inquiry: The Path of Sciencing1 review Rosemarie Rizzo Parse Jones & Bartlett Publishers Inc.,U.S., 2001 Qualitative Inquiry: The Path of Sciencing by Rosemary R Parse As always Amazon came up with the product I was unable to get anywhere else. I am using Parse's theoretical approach for my research and am keen to own her writings. My research into Palliative Care Nursing is using a purely qualitative approach and Parse's theory is helpful in constructing a framework.             Doing Naturalistic Inquiry: A Guide to Methods2 reviews David A. Erlandson, Professor Edward L. Harris, ... Sage Publications, Inc, 1993 Exceptional text dealing with qualitative research This hands-on book turns the highly theoretical world of qualitative inquiry into a doable approach to research in all areas of social science. I have found its methods to be extremely useful and easy to implement.             Qualitative Inquiry in TESOL1 review Keith Richards Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 very good book Interested in the qualitative research, I thought this was THE book I had to purchase. Not disappointed at all.             Uprising of Hope: Sharing the Zapatista Journey to Alternative Development (Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry)2 reviews Duncan Earle AltaMira Press, 2005 Moving beyond the search for the one true Marcos This is the book for anyone who needs to know, whatever happened to the Zapatista rebels of Chiapas? Ever since the Mexican army dismantled the Zapatista liberated zone in 1998, it has been very difficult for outsiders who don't know Chiapas to figure out at what level the movement still exists. The two authors are U.S. anthropologists who take their students on service-learning trips. Between ...             Autoethnography as Method (Developing Qualitative Inquiry)2 reviews Heewon V. Chang Left Coast Press, Inc., 2008 Autoethnography as Method by Heewon V. Chang As a PhD student of hospice nursing and using Autoethnography as a research methodology I welcome literature discussing this 'new ethnographic' approach. This book is one that is a valuable addition to my collection of references one I frequently access as the methodology chapter evolves.             Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing among Five Approaches21 reviews John W. Creswell Sage Publications, Inc, 2006 Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing among Five Traditions I purchased this book used in good condition. I was pleasantly surprised to find that this book was in excellent condition with only about six pages highlighted. This was a tremendous find! Thanks for providing good books at a reasonable price that benefit us all. Thanks for the service.             Grounding Grounded Theory: Guidelines for Qualitative Inquiry4 reviews Ian Dey Academic Press, 1999 Excellent, Detailed, on level ground! If you've read Glasner and Straus' (1967), then this is an excellent modern day treatment of developing grounded theory. A must-have title for any qualitative researcher. Above all, suggestions throughout this book offer practical tips that any academic researcher will appreciate.             Turning Points in Qualitative Research: Tying Knots in a Handkerchief (Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry)1 review Norman K. Denzin AltaMira Press, 2003 key reading for qualitative researchers Any text edited by Lincoln and Denzin explaining the aspects and issues to consider when engaging in qualitative research methods will help the researcher create a sounder study design. This book can be viewed as a seminal text and a necessary element of a personal library on qualitative research methods.             The Enlightened Eye: Qualitative Inquiry and the Enhancement of Educational Practice3 reviews Elliot W. Eisner Prentice Hall College Div, 1991 The beauty of written language and the power of words. Designed as a text for education courses, The Enlightened Eye should be on everyone's reading list. The power of the author, Elliot Eisner, to convey ideas that are normally limited to esoteric "research" courses, and the "elite" graduate students who inhabit that world, is remarkable and refreshing. Through artistic and poetic imagery, the author transports the reader to a world of knowing that ...             Acts of Inquiry in Qualitative Research (Harvard Educational Review Reprint Series, No. 34) Harvard Educational Review, 2000             9/11 in American Culture (Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry) Norman K. Denzin AltaMira Press, 2003 In response to the events following September 11, a number of leading cultural studies and interpretive qualitative researchers write from their own experiences and hearts. From the poetic to the personal, the theoretical to the historical, their essays_by noted scholars Kellner, Fine, McLaren, Richardson, Denzin, Giroux, and others_are collected in this volume, and were written in crisis within days and weeks of September 11. The immediacy of ...             Auto/Ethnographies: Sex and Death and Symbolic Interaction in the Eighth Moment of Qualitative Inquiry: Seven ... Michael Hemmingson Borgo Press, 2009 AUTO/ETHNOGRAPHIES Auto/ethnography is a quickly growing and popular sub-field of research in sociology, anthropology, communications, psychology, and health sciences. It is the examination of the self in culture, a "new" branch of memoir and auto/biography that takes the sociological imagination one step further into the postmodern use of the meta-narrative. It is a passionate blend of the "mystory" with academic discourse. Hemmingson ...             Designing Social Inquiry12 reviews Gary King, Robert O. Keohane, ... Princeton University Press, 1994 All the advantages and disadvantages of statistical reasoning applied to qualitative political science This book takes the basic logic of statistical inference and applies it to qualitative research design in political science. As several reviewers note, it is not a book on statistics, nor indeed does it pretend to be. However, it extends the logic of statistical research design into nonquantitative research. That much it does very well. 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