Doing qualitative research : : praxis of method / / Wolff-Michael Roth.

• Superior document: Bold visions in educational research
• VerfasserIn: Roth, Wolff-Michael, 1953-
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam, The Netherlands : : Sense Publishers,, [2005]; 2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Bold visions in educational research.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The author takes readers on a journey of a large number of issues in designing actual studies of knowing and learning in the classroom, exploring actual data, and putting readers face to face with problems that he actually or possibly encountered, and what he has done or possibly could have done. The reader subsequently sees the results of data collection in the different analyses provided. The author shows how one writes very different studies using the same data sources but very different theoretical assumptions and analytic technique. The author brings his publication experience in very different disciplinesinto play to provide readers with way of experiencing research as praxis. The book is organized around six major themes (sections), in the course of which it develops the practical problems an educational researcher might face in a large variety of settings. The book was written to be used by upper undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in research design and professors who want to have a reference on design and methodology.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Creating Data Sources -- Design Experiments -- Cultural-Historical Development of Research Questions -- Designing a Design Experiment: Intervention and Research -- Knowing and Learning in Classroom Communities -- Ethnographic Designs -- Planning and Setting Up Ethnographic Research -- Participating, Producing Sources of Data, and Making Sense -- Finding and Writing for Specific Audiences -- Analyzing Data Sources -- Zooming and Focusing -- Seeking and Finding Patterns -- Learning with Computers: An Empirical Example of Zooming and Focusing -- Usefulness of the Zooming/Focusing Metaphor -- Cognitive Phenomenology -- First-Person and Third-Person Methods -- Three Case Studies of Perception -- Writing the Conclusion: Usefulness of Cognitive Phenomenology -- Discourse Analysis -- DA: Theory and Research Design -- Content and Process of Discourse -- Discursive Arrangement of Lifeworlds -- Conversation Analysis -- A Way of Seeing the World -- CA: Fundamental Phenomena and Resources -- Conversation as Microcosms of Social Organization in the Making -- Endnotes and Resources -- References -- Index -- About the Author.