TY - BOOK AU - Bogdan,Robert C. AU - Biklen,Sari Knopp TI - Qualitative research for education: an introduction to theory and methods SN - 0205482937 AV - LB 1028 .B633 2007 U1 - 370.7/2 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Boston PB - Pearson A & B KW - Education KW - Research KW - Methodology N2 - 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. ER -