Qualitative Methods

 The first edition of Interpretive Description established itself as the key resource for novice and intermediate level researchers in applied settings for conducting a qualitative research project with practical outcomes. In the second edition, leading qualitative researcher Sally Thorne retains th..

This book is designed to guide both new and more seasoned researchers through the steps of conceiving, designing, and implementing coherent research capable of generating new insights in clinical settings...

Focusing on dialogic communication theory, science and technology studies, and action research, this volume explores the methodological, epistemological, and ethical conundrums that arise within collaborative research in the dialog between researchers, policy makers, and citizens. It argues that res..

Taking a broadly ontological view, Ken Gale explores the way research is conceptualized, and what impact this has on the research output. The idea of madness is seen and deconstructed through the lens of the ‘rhizomatic’ work of Deleuze and Guattari...

Taking a broadly ontological view, Ken Gale explores the way research is conceptualized, and what impact this has on the research output. The idea of madness is seen and deconstructed through the lens of the ‘rhizomatic’ work of Deleuze and Guattari...

This volume is dedicated to exploring and exposing the challenges, the possibilities, and the processes of empirical work in embodiment. Grounded in qualitative inquiry in the humanities and social sciences, the chapters describe perspectives and contexts of embodied research, but focus on the metho..

Mixed Methods Research: A Personal History captures the dynamic history and development of mixed methods research in a narrative of personal discovery, growth, and experience...

Modes of Thinking for Qualitative Data Analysis argues for engagement with the conceptual underpinnings of five prominent analytical strategies used by qualitative researchers: Categorical Thinking, Narrative Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, Poetical Thinking, and Diagrammatical Thinking...

Gubrium and Harper provide instruction in visual and digital methodologies and show how they can contribute to building a participatory, public-engaged ethnography...

Internationally known educator Max van Manen provides phenomenological guidance on how teachers, parents, and other child care workers can act pedagogically with sensitivity, tact, respect, and attentiveness, to create a positive influence that is felt throughout the young person’s life and adulthoo..

Famous Brazilian educational and social theorist Paulo Freire presents his ideas on community solidarity in moving toward social justice in schools and society in a set of talks and interviews shortly before his death, supplemented with commentaries by other well-known scholars...

Photovoice Research within Education and Beyond is the first how-to book dedicated exclusively to describing this increasingly popular research methodology...