Qualitative Educational Research ─ Readings in Reflexive Methodology and Transformative Practice

Qualitative Educational Research is a comprehensive anthology designed to deepen education students' thinking about their qualitative research purposes, questions, and decision-making. Focusing on various epistemological, intellectual, and ethical conflicts in doing social analysis, thisreader invites researchers-in-training to explore why, from what perspective, for whose benefit, and with what stakes are research questions being posed. Drawing from her wealth of expertise executing and teaching qualitative research methods, scholar Wendy Luttrell has selected essays that focus specifically on the challenges of qualitative inquiry as they pertain to the field of education. These essays present multiple paradigms and perspectives in qualitative inquiry, including interpretivism, critical theory, cultural studies, feminist theories, critical psychology, and critical race theory. Reflexive writing assignments at the end of the volume expand readers’ understanding of the essays and guide students through developing their own research design.

Wendy Luttrell is Professor of Urban Education at the Graduate Center, City University of New York

Introduction: The Promise of Qualitative Research in Education
Section One: On Knowing
1. Foundations of Qualitative Research for Education, Robert C. Bogdan and Sari Knopp Biklen
2. The Lives and Values of Researchers, James A. Banks
3. Studying Urban Schools, Howard S. Becker
4. Knowledge Accumulation: Three Views on the Nature and Role of Knowledge in Social Science, Jennifer C. Greene
5. Seeing through Science: Epistemologies, Joey Sprague
6. On Tricky Ground, Linda Tuhiwai Smith
7. Practice, Participatory Research and Creative Research Designs: The Evolution of Ethical Guidelines for Research, Walter Haney and M. Brinton Lykes
8. Unraveling Ethics, Christine Halse and Anne Honey
9. On Intellectual Craftsmanship, C. Wright Mills
10. From the Seminar Room, Marjorie L. DeVault
Section Two: On Doing
11. Interactive and Reflexive Models of Qualitative Research Design
12. Culture, Development, Disability, R. P. McDermott and Hervé Varenne
13. Grounded Theory: Objectivist and Constructivist Methods, Kathy Charmaz
14. Narrative Inquiry, Susan E. Chase
15. The Cultural Analysis of Discourse, Naomi Quinn
16. "Good Enough" Methods for Life-Story Analysis, Wendy Luttrell
17. Validity: How Might You Be Wrong? Joseph A. Maxwell
18. Validation in Inquiry-Guided Research: The Role of Exemplars in Narrative Studies, Elliot G. Mishler
19. Poor Mothers and Habits of Hiding: Participatory Methods in Poverty Research, Lisa Dodson and Leah Schmalzbauer
20. Don’t Believe the Hype, Ann Arnett Ferguson
Section Three: On Telling
21. The Colonizer/Colonized Chicana Ethnographer: Identity, Marginalization, and Co-optation in the Field, Sofia Villenas
22. "Where Are You Really From?":Representation, Identity and Power in the Fieldwork Experiences of a South Asian Diasporic, Marsha Giselle Henry
23. White Like Me?: Methods, Meaning, and Manipulation in the Field of White Studies, Charles A. Gallagher
24. The Power to Know One Thing Is Never the Power to Know All Things: Methodological Notes on Two Studies of Black American Teachers, Michèle Foster
25. Entering the Inquiry, Susan Talburt
26. Learning from Kids, Barrie Thorne
27. Teacher-Researcher Collaboration from Two Perspectives, Polly Ulichny and Wendy Schoener
28. Writing the "Wrongs" of Fieldwork: Confronting Our Own Research/Writing Dilemmas in Urban Ethnographies, Michelle Fine and Lois Weiss
Section Four: Reflexive Writing Exercises
29. Reflexive Writing Exercises, Wendy Luttrell
30. Summary of Kinds of Responses, Peter Elbow and Pat Belanoff
31. "Joining In" and "Knowing the I": On Becoming Reflexive Scholars, Rhoda Bernard, Cleti Cervoni, Charlene Desir, and Corinne McKamey
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