Marshall, C: Designing Qualitative Research

List of TablesList of FiguresList of VignettesAbout the AuthorsPreface1. Introduction2. Qualitative Research Genres3. Trustworthiness and Ethics4. The What of the Study: Building the Conceptual Framework5. The How of the Study: Building the Research Design6. Primary Data Collection Methods7. Secondary and Specialized Methods8. Managing, Analyzing, and Interpreting Data9. Planning Time and Resources10. Revisiting Proposal as Argument and Forecasting Final RepresentationsReferencesIndex

Catherine Marshall is Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Formerly a teacher in Rhode Island, her studies and career moves include doctoral studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles, and faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University before moving in 1991 to Chapel Hill. Her teaching and research interests include the use an interdisciplinary approach to analyze school cultures, state policy systems, and the professional development of adults working in organizations. She has published extensively about the politics of education, qualitative methodology, and women's access to careers as well as about the socialization, language, and values in educational leadership. She is the author of Reframing Educational Politics for Social Justice (Allyn & Bacon, 2004); Leadership for Social Justice: Making Revolutions in Education, Culture and Education Policy in the American States (Allyn & Bacon, 2005); and Designing Qualitative Research, Fifth Edition (SAGE, 2010), as well as a number of other books and numerous journal articles.

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