Designing Qualitative Research - Softcover

Completely updated, the new edition of Designing Qualitative Research contains lucid discussions on the critical traditions within qualitative inquiry, conceptualizations of researchers' roles and possibilities for more collaborative ways of doing qualitative research.

Featuring a new chapter organization, the volume highlights the important topics of data-collection methods, data management and analysis, and resource allocation decisions - all of which are revised and feature new examples. Also included are updated vignettes which provide illustrations that take the reader through the complex processes of proposal development.

Catherine Marshall is Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Formerly a teacher in Rhode Island, her studies and career moves include doctoral studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles, and faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University before moving in 1991 to Chapel Hill. Her teaching and research interests include the use an interdisciplinary approach to analyze school cultures, state policy systems, and the professional development of adults working in organizations. She has published extensively about the politics of education, qualitative methodology, and women's access to careers as well as about the socialization, language, and values in educational leadership. She is the author of Reframing Educational Politics for Social Justice (Allyn & Bacon, 2004); Leadership for Social Justice: Making Revolutions in Education, Culture and Education Policy in the American States (Allyn & Bacon, 2005); and Designing Qualitative Research, Fifth Edition (SAGE, 2010), as well as a number of other books and numerous journal articles.