Critical Approaches to Questions in Qualitative Research

This book provides a comprehensive overview of critical approaches to questions in qualitative research. Written using examples from actual research and course work, this volume helps students and researchers learn to interrogate and inquire against the grain. For use by anyone doing qualitative research in Education, Critical Approaches to Questions in Qualitative Research teaches that questions are tools for decision making in the research process. With exercises, sample questions, and outlines for planning research, this volume teaches readers to ask questions that confront prevailing assumptions leading to an analysis, dismantling and uncovering of omissions and invisiblities.

Raji Swaminathan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Community Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of emerging methods in qualitative research, urban education, and alternative education.

Thalia M. Mulvihill is a Professor of Social Foundations and Higher Education, and an Affiliate Faculty member in the Women's?and Gender Studies Program and the Honors College. She currently serves as the Director of the Adult, Higher, and Community Education Doctoral Program.