Qualitative Educational and Bildungs Research

David Kergel is Professor for Social Work at the IU International University of Applied Sciences and Director of the Institute for Diversity and Education in the Digital Age. He is the editor of several book series as well as the section editor for “Interdisziplinäre Bildungsforschung” at the Enzyklopädie Erziehungswissenschaft online.

• Part I: What is Bildung? Epistemological Foundation and Empirical Approaches.- Chapter 1. What is Bildung? – A Definition.- Chapter 2. Qualitative Social Research.- Part II: Selected Methods in the Context of Integrative Bildung Research.- Chapter 3. Ethnography – Becoming strange to oneself and observing.- Chapter 4. Grounded Theory – Theory under empirical Construction.- Chapter 5. The qualitative content analysis – Combing through the data Frequency and case orientation – Content analysis between qualitative and quantitative research.- Chapter 6. Objectives Hermeneutics – Taking what is said very seriously.- Chapter 7. The narrative interview and narrative analysis – How do we tell your story?.- Chapter 8. The Documentary Method – The How of our actions in analysis.- Chapter 9. Discourse Analysis – Who is the discourse, what does it say?.- Chapter 10. Agency analysis, positioning analysis and interpellation analysis – Three ways to analyze of agency.- Part III: Research Fields of Integrative Bildung Research.- Chapter 11. Bildung-oriented Evaluation and Didactic Research.- Chapter 12. Empirical Approaches to Bildung-Ethics.