This highly-popular text provides useful and pragmatic guidance for developing successful proposals for qualitative inquiry. Written primarily for applied researchers, the book offers practical advice on designing qualitative research, given the complexity, the flexibility, and the controversies of [...]
In the year 1912, nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston leaves home to teach school in the Smoky Mountains -- and comes to know and love the resilient people of the region, with their fierce pride, their dark superstitions, their terrible poverty, and their yearning for beauty and truth. But her fait[...]
With expanded coverage of ethics, analysis processes and approaches, the authors have updated their bestselling text to reflect recent advances and challenges. Features in the Fourth Edition include: - Recent thinking on 'the researcher in the research setting' - Consideration of the current politic[...]
This popular text provides useful and pragmatic guidance for developing and successfully defending proposals for qualitative inquiry. The fifth edition addresses the advances and challenges presented by developments and new applications while providing direct guidance. Focusing on the proposal stage[...]