Qualitative research for education :

Bogdan, Robert C.

Qualitative research for education : an introduction to theory and methods / Robert C. Bogdan, Sari Knopp Biklen. - 5th ed. - Boston : Pearson A & B, c2007. - xiv, 304 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

This concise, applied, and very clearly written introduction to qualitative research methods can be used effectively in a semester, or year-long course. The purpose of this introductory-level text is to provide the reader with a background for understanding the uses of qualitative research in education to examine its theoretical and historical underpinnings, and to provide the ?how-to's? of doing qualitative research. This new edition places qualitative research within current debates about research methods and alternative ways of knowing. While the authors approach the subject from a sociological perspective, they also take care to reflect the many changes in conceptualization of qualitative research brought by post-structural and feminist thought.

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Education--Research.
Education--Research--Methodology.

LB 1028 / .B633 2007

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