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Qualitative research in education

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This guide is for those interested in qualitative methods as applied to education including interviewing and ethnography.

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Background information

Handbook of qualitative research in education / edited by Sara Delamont with assistance from Angela Jones.
Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .H314 2012
The SAGE handbook of qualitative research / edited by Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln.
4th ed. Los Angeles : SAGE, c2011.
Green Library » Stacks » H62 .H2455 2011

New books

Disrupting qualitative inquiry : possibilities and tensions in educational research / edited by Ruth Nicole Brown, Rozana Carducci, and Candace R. Kuby.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .D545 2014
New visions of collective achievement : the cross-generational schooling experiences of African American males / Darrell Cleveland Hucks ; foreword by Suzanne C. Carothers.
Rotterdam [Netherlands] ; Boston : Sense Publishers, c2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2731 .H83 2014
Qualitative inquiry in evaluation : from theory to practice / Leslie Goodyear, Jennifer Jewiss, Janet Usinger, and Eric Barela [editors].
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2822.75 .Q354 2014
Researching race in education : policy, practice, and qualitative research / edited by Adrienne D. Dixson (University of illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC212.2 .R53 2014
Reason & rigor : how conceptual frameworks guide research / Sharon M. Ravitch, Matthew Riggan.
Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » H62 .R344 2012
Qualitative research in education / Liz Atkins and Susan Wallace.
London ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE, 2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .A885 2012
Data visualization / Tarek Azzam, Stephanie Evergreen, editors.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .N4 NO.139
Qualitative analysis and documentary method in international educational research / Ralf Bohnsack, Nicolle Pfaff, Wivian Weiller (eds.).
Opladen ; Farmington Hills, MI. : Barbara Budrich, c2010.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .Q34 2010
Engaging in narrative inquiry / D. Jean Clandinin.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » H61.295 .C53 2013
Challenging status quo retrenchment : new directions in critical research / edited by Tricia M. Kress, the University of Massachusetts Boston, Curry Malott, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, Brad Porfilio, Lewis University.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028.24 .C35 2013
Arts-based research primer / James Haywood Rolling, Jr.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » H62 .R638 2013
Twenty-first century learning by doing / by Judith M. Meloy.
Rotterdam, Netherlands ; Boston : Sense Pub., c2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2369 .M385 2012
Thinking with theory in qualitative research : viewing data across multiple perspectives / Alecia Y. Jackson and Lisa A Mazzei.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » H62 .J295 2012
A realist approach for qualitative research / Joseph A. Maxwell.
Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, c2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » H62 .M324 2012
Qualitative inquiry for equity in higher education : methodological innovations, implications, and interventions / Penny A. Pasque, Rozana Carducci, Aaron M. Kuntz, Ryan Evely Gildersleeve.
San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass Inc, ; Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » 378.08 .E68 V.37:NO.6
Beginning interpretative inquiry : a step-by-step approach to research and evaluation / Richard E. Morehouse.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .M6437 2012
Conducting multi-generational qualitative research in education : an experiment in grounded theory / Donald R. Collins.
New York : P. Lang, c2011.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2741 .C65 2011
Researching young children's perspectives : debating the ethics and dilemmas of educational research with children / edited by Deborah Harcourt, Bob Perry and Tim Waller.
1st ed. London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .R388 2011
Qualitative research methods in education / edited by Harry Torrance.
Los Angeles : SAGE, 2010.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .Q357 2010 V.1
Engaging science policy : from the side of the messy / Patti Lather.
New York : Peter Lang, c2010.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » Q180 .U5 L38 2010
Researching practice : a discourse on qualitative methodologies / edited by Joy Higgs ... [et al.].
Rotterdam ; Boston : Sense Publishers, c2010.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » H62 .R46168 2010
New approaches to qualitative research : wisdom and uncertainty / edited by Maggi Savin-Baden and Claire Howell Major.
1st ed. London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .N364 2010
The practice of qualitative research / Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, Patricia Leavy.
2nd ed. Los Angeles : SAGE, c2011.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » H62 .H478 2011
The coding manual for qualitative researchers / Johnny Saldaña.
Los Angeles : Sage, 2009.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » H62 .S31855 2009
The collaborative turn : working together in qualitative research / [edited by] Walter S. Gershon.
Rotterdam, Netherlands ; Boston : Sense Publishers, c2009.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » H62 .C5658 2009
Critical issues in higher education for the public good : qualitative, quantitative, & historical research perspectives / edited by Penny A. Pasque, Nicholas A. Bowman, & Magdalena Martinez ; introduction by Alexander W. & Helen S. Astin.
Kennesaw, GA : Kennesaw State University Press, c2009.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2326.3 .C75 2009

Journals

Journal of ethnographic & qualitative research.
Cedarville, OH : Cedarville University, c2007-
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » H62 .A1 J66 V.8 2013/2014
"The Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research is a peer-reviewed periodical, publishing scholarly articles that address topics relating directly to empirical qualitative research and conceptual articles addressing topics related to qualitative inquiry."

Databases

Education databases

ERIC [electronic resource] : the educational resources information center.
[Washington, DC : National Library of Education?, 199?-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Bibliographic database of educational resources including articles, reports, and curriculum.
Education full text [electronic resource].
[Bronx, N.Y.] : H.W. Wilson Co.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Indexes and abstracts articles of English-language periodicals and books on education from 1983 on. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996 and is available for over half the 600 journals indexed.
Education week American education news site of record [electronic resource].
Bethesda, MD : Editorial Projects in Education, Inc.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Teachers College record book reviews [electronic resource].
Birmingham, AL : Teachers College Record
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
"Teachers College Record Book Reviews provides comprehensive reviews of the leading books in education and educational research by major scholars in these fields. "

Related Databases

Sociological abstracts.
[San Diego, etc., Sociological Abstracts, inc.]
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » HM1 .S67 V.52:NO.6 2004
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.