Meta-Ethnography: Synthesizing Qualitative Studies (Qualitative Research Methods) (Qualitative Research Methods Series, 11, Band 11) - Softcover

Buch 23 von 33: Qualitative Research Methods

George W. Noblit

 
9780803930230: Meta-Ethnography: Synthesizing Qualitative Studies (Qualitative Research Methods) (Qualitative Research Methods Series, 11, Band 11)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803930232 ISBN 13: 9780803930230
Verlag: Sage Publications, Incorporated, 1988

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This provocative volume deals with one of the chief criticisms of ethnographic studies, a criticism which centres on their particularism or their insistence on context -- the question is asked: How can these studies be generalized beyond the individual case? Noblit and Hare propose a method -- meta-ethnography -- for synthesizing from qualitative, interpretive studies. They show that ethnographies themselves are interpretive acts, and demonstrate that by translating metaphors and key concepts between ethnographic studies, it is possible to develop a broader interpretive synthesis. Using examples from numerous studies, the authors illuminate how meta-ethnography works, isolate several types of meta-ethnographic study and provide a theoretica

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George W. Noblit became a sociologist in the 1970s, a time of turbulent social change. Research on crime, delinquency and deviance led to a focus on schooling in the lives and futures of youth. Through a study of school desegregation, he began a program of research on the social construction of race, using ethnographic research to study schools and other educational scenes. Noblit is intrigued with how knowledge-often taken as good in its own right-is implicated in creating the very problems it is asked to solve. Noblit studies the various ways knowledge is constructed and how the competition over which knowledge counts construct powers and difference. This process means exploring both the highest reaches of theory and the everyday lives of people as they struggle to make sense of the world. To Noblit, "there is not a theory-practice gap, only a failure of imagination." Noblit conducts funded evaluation projects, most recently on A+ (arts-enhanced) schools (the subject of his 2009 book), charter schools and prison education for youth adult offenders in North Carolina. "For me, evaluation and policy studies are a way to be part of larger political processes in our society," he says, "and to help shape the agendas of important innovations."

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This provocative volume deals with one of the chief criticisms of ethnographic studies, a criticism which centres on their particularism or their insistence on context -- the question is asked: How can these studies be generalized beyond the individual case? Noblit and Hare propose a method -- meta-ethnography -- for synthesizing from qualitative, interpretive studies. They show that ethnographies themselves are interpretive acts, and demonstrate that by translating metaphors and key concepts between ethnographic studies, it is possible to develop a broader interpretive synthesis. Using examples from numerous studies, the authors illuminate how meta-ethnography works, isolate several types of meta-ethnographic study and provide a theoretical justification for the method's use.

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Verlag
Sage Publications, Incorporated
Erscheinungsdatum
1988
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803930232
ISBN 13 
9780803930230
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
88
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