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Author Stake, Robert E.

Title Qualitative research : studying how things work / Robert E. Stake.

Publication Info. New York : Guilford Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description ix, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents Introduction : Make yourself comfortable -- Projects -- 1. Qualitative research: how things work -- 1.1. Science of the particular -- 1.2. Professional knowledge -- 1.3. Individual experience and collective knowledge -- 1.4. Methods of qualitative research -- 1.5. Causes -- 1.6. Thing -- 1.7. Comparing things -- 1.8. Weaknesses of qualitative research -- 1.9. Essence of the qualitative approach -- 2. Interpretation: the person as instrument -- 2.1. Interpretive research -- 2.2. Microinterpretation and macrointerpretation -- 2.3. Empathy -- 2.4. Thick description and verstehen -- 2.5. Context and situation -- 2.6. Skepticism -- 2.7. Emphasis on interpretation -- 3. Experiential understanding : most qualitative study is experiential -- 3.1. Places of human activity -- 3.2. Criterial and experiential description -- 3.3. Emphasizing personal experience -- 3.4. Multiple realities -- 3.5. Bringing in the experience of others -- 4. Stating the problem: questioning how this thing works -- 4.1. First the question, then the methods -- 4.2. Laying out your study -- 4.3. A librarian thinking of a design -- 4.4. Design for studying how this case works -- 4.5. Raising and answering questions -- 5. Methods: gathering data -- 5.1. Observing -- 5.2. Interviewing -- 5.3. Exhibit questions -- 5.4. Survey -- 5.5. Keeping records -- 6. Review of literature: zooming to see the problem -- 6.1. Refining the problem to be studied -- 6.2. Concept mapping -- 6.3. Representing upon the nearby studies -- 6.4. Building upon the nearby studies -- 6.5 Finding the literature -- 7. Evidence: bolstering judgment and reconnoitering -- 7.1. Evidence-based decision making -- 7.2. Unbearable lightness of evidence -- 7.3. Triangulation -- 7.4. Mixed methods and confidence -- 7.5. Member checking -- 7.6. Review panels -- 7.7. Progressive focusing -- 8. Analysis and synthesis : how things work -- 8.1. Taking apart and putting together -- 8.2. Working with patches -- 8.3. Interpretation and sorting.
9. Action research and self-evaluation : finding on your own how your place works -- 9.1. Participatory action research -- 9.2. Evaluation -- 9.3. Studying your own place -- 9.4. Bias -- 9.5 Assertions -- 10. Storytelling illustrating how things work -- 10.1. Vignettes -- 10.2. Elements of story -- 10.3. Story versus a collage of patches -- 10.4. Multiple case research -- 11. Writing the final report: an iterative convergence -- 11.1. Iterative synthesis -- 11.2. Ukraine report -- 11.3. Dualities and the dialectic -- 11.4. Particular and general assertions -- 11.5. Generalization from particular situations -- 11.6. Professional view -- 12. Advocacy and ethics: making things work better -- 12.1. All research is advocative -- 12.2. A voice for the underrepresented -- 12.3. Personal ethics -- 12.4. Protection of human subjects -- 12.5. People exposed -- 12.6. Essentials of qualitative research -- 12.7. Looking forward.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) and indexes.
Summary "This book provides invaluable guidance for thinking through and planning a qualitative study. Rather than offering recipes for specific techniques, master storyteller Robert Stake stimulates readers to discover "how things work" in organizations, programs, communities, and other systems. Topics range from identifying a research question to selecting methods, gathering data, interpreting and analyzing the results, and producing a well-thought-through written report. In-depth examples from actual studies emphasize the role of the researcher as instrument and interpreter, while boxed vignettes and learning projects encourage self-reflection and critical thinking. Other useful pedagogical features include quick-reference tables and charts, sample project management forms, and an end-of-book glossary. After reading this book, doctoral students and novice qualitative researchers will be able to plan a study from beginning to end."--Publisher's description.
Subject Qualitative research.
Qualitative research.
Research -- Methodology.
Research -- Methodology.
Qualitative research.
Research -- Methodology.
Other Form: Online version: Stake, Robert E. Qualitative research. New York : Guilford Press, ©2010 (OCoLC)760965254
ISBN 9781606235454 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
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