Qualitative Research in Education
A User's Guide
- Marilyn Lichtman - Virginia Tech, USA
Qualitative Research in Education: A User's Guide is a core textbook for graduate courses in educational research. As with previous edition, the book will provide readers with a blend of practical and theoretical information. The use of real-world examples and illustrations will help users grasp abstract ideas and apply them to their research.
New to the Third Edition
- a new chapter on the use of social media for data collection, analysis, retrieval, and collaboration expands students' thinking about the relationship between social media and qualitative research.
- the chapter on data analysis has been expanded to include an emphasis on thematic analysis and narrative approaches.
- 'did you know?' sections have been updated to reflect current research included in the Third Edition.
- updated references in each chapter target the most recent key writing and examples.
Very useful and well written text
Interesting book, but somewhat too condensed.
Found it to be a very user friendly text, especially for teachers.
Useful book fully for the undergraduate and doctoral student.
This is a contemporary approach to researching education practice including the field of social media which is a vibrant area for exploration. Overall this is a start up text and is most useful in exploring skills of gathering data. The literature review chapter is particularly helpful in structuring the process and the section on interviewing is also helpful with real world examples that clearly illlustrate techniques in probing in chapter 7 and then differing approaches to the interview are explored more fully in chapter 10. The writing style is informative, personal and autoethngraphic in feel making for an authentic accessible text.
A little too Americanized for our students, we preferred Baumfield's Action Research in Education, 2nd ed.
Strongly recomend. Very helpful in writing research proposals
Generally good book with nice writing style, but competition with Savin-Baden's guide published by Routledge which I am currently giving full consideration for adoption.
The book gives a good insight of how to conduct a qualitative research and it is a useful reference book for FDA, BA and M level students. I anticipate that it will be used in dissertation supervision.
Very helpful for all our students in Faculty of Education especially in methodology courses in candidate and master levels. Our students like also the support pages on internet.
Sample Materials & Chapters
Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview of the Field
Chapter 12: Making Meaning from your Data