Designed for introductory research courses in the professional fields and social sciences, this text acquaints students and beginning researchers with a broad view of research methodologies and an understanding of the assumptions that inform each of these approaches. More experienced researchers will also find the book useful in acquainting them with methodologies and theoretical frameworks that are new to them. The text is distinguished by its avoidance of using the discreet categories of qualitative and quantitative methods to organize the chapters. While some chapter authors rely more on one or the other, many employ multiple methodologies to investigate particular problems and questions. Further, the book is not organized into single, contradictory positivist-interpretivist categories of research; chapter authors often situate methodologies within a variety of, and sometimes multiple, theoretical positions, particularly as these approaches are shaped by the historical context of social science research. Focus points in Foundations for Research: Methods of Inquiry in Education and the Social Sciences: *research ethics.*intertwined relationship of theory and research design. *systematic examination of ways to design and implement high-quality, trustworthy research across varying research designs. *specific methods for implementing research within various frameworks. *pedagogical strategies.
Author(s): Kathleen B. deMarrais, Stephen D. Lapan
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 449
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
1
Introduction......Page 18
2
Being Vulnerable and Being
Ethical With/in Research......Page 30
3
Historical Research......Page 48
4
Qualitative Interview Studies:
Learning Through Experience......Page 68
5
Owning Significance:
The Critical Incident Technique
in Research......Page 86
6
Focus Groups: More Than a
Method of Qualitative Inquiry......Page 104
7
Exploring Life and Experience
Through Narrative Inquiry......Page 120
8
Enjoining Positionality and
Power in Narrative Work:
Balancing Contentious and
Modulating Forces......Page 140
9
Ethnomethodological and
Conversation Analytic Studies......Page 156
10
Fieldwork Traditions:
Ethnography and Participant
Observation......Page 178
11
Reinscribing Critique
in Educational Ethnography:
Critical and Postcritical
Ethnography......Page 198
12
Critical Inquiry in Qualitative
Research: Feminist and
Poststructural Perspectives:
Science “After Truth”......Page 220
13
Case Study Research......Page 234
14
Evaluation Studies......Page 252
15
Participatory Evaluation......Page 266
16
Multimethods Research......Page 284
17
Survey Research......Page 300
18
Single-Subject Experimental
Research: An Overview
for Practitioners......Page 320
19
Experimental Research to Inform
Educational Policy......Page 346
20
Using Multiple Methodologies:
The Case of Retention in Chicago......Page 370
References......Page 388
Author Index......Page 428
Subject Index......Page 437
