Qualitative Research Methods in Education

• VOLUME ONE: THEORETICAL ORIGINS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS IN EDUCATIONPart A: Theoretical Tributaries from Anthropology, Sociology and Social PsychologyThick Description: Towards an interpretive theory of culture - Clifford GeertzExtracts from Symbolic Interactionism: perspective and method - Herbert Blumer Extracts from Collected Papers 1: The problems of social reality - Alfred SchutzExtracts from Studies in Ethnomethodology - Harold GarfinkelExtracts from The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life - Erving GoffmanPart B: Case Study, Ethnography and EvaluationExtracts from Boys in White: Student culture in medical school - Howard Becker, Blanche Geer, Everett Hughes and Anselm StraussExtracts from The Man in the Principal′s Office - Harry WolcottStructuring School Structure - Hugh MehanExtracts from Social Relations in a Secondary School - David HargreavesExtracts from ′Problems of Sociological Fieldwork: A review of the methodology of Hightown Grammar′ - Colin LaceyExtracts from Beachside Comprehensive - Stephen BallThe Countenance of Educational Evaluation - Robert StakeEvaluation and the Control of Education - Barry MacDonaldThe Conduct of Educational Case Study: Ethics, theory and procedures - Rob WalkerThe Study Method in Social Inquiry - Robert StakeThe Imagination of the Case and the Invention of the Study - Stephen KemmisEvaluation as Illumination: A new approach to the study of innovatory programmes - Malcolm Parlett and David HamiltonThe Teacher as Researcher - Lawrence StenhouseExtracts from Fourth Generation Evaluation - Egon Guba and Yvonna LincolnThe Deliberative Democratic View - Ernest House and Kenneth HoweQualitative Research Traditions: A review - Evelyn JacobQualitative Research Traditions: A British response to Jacob - Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont and Martyn HammersleyCritical Ethnography in Education: Origins, current status and new directions - Gary AndersonVOLUME TWO: LANGUAGE, PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS - ADDITIONAL THEORETICAL TRIBUTARIES AND METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN EDUCATIONPart A: Other Contributory Social Scientific TraditionsExtracts from Class, Codes and Control - Basil BernsteinExtracts from ′The Forms of Capital′ - Pierre BourdieuExtracts from ′An Approach to the Study of Curricula as Socially Organised Knowledge′ - Michael YoungFeminisms and Education - Gaby WeinerExtracts from Common Knowledge: The development of understanding in the classroom - Derek Edwards and Neil MercerText and Discourse in Education: An introduction to critical discourse analysis - Allan LukeThinking and Learning in Social Context - Barbara RogoffExtracts from Situated Learning: Legitimate peripheral participation - Jean Lave and Etienne WengerExtracts from Discourse and Cognition - Derek EdwardsBeyond Developmentalism - Valerie WalkerdinePart B: Developing the Political, Ethical, Epistemological and Emancipatory Implications of Qualitative ApproachesExtracts from Action Research for Educational Change - John ElliottResearch as Praxis - Patti LatherPost-Structural Feminism in Education: An overview - Elizabeth Adams St.PierreThe Problem of Speaking for Others - Linda AlcoffTransformative Approaches to Student Voice: Theoretical underpinnings, recalcitrant realities - Michael FieldingSilence Speaks: Whiteness revealed in the absence of voice - Lisa MazzeiDisability Research and the ′Researcher Template′: Reflections on grounded subjectivity in ethnographic research - Dan GoodleyGazing with Intent: Ethnographic practice in classrooms - Tuula Gordon et alWhat′s Race Got to Do with It? Critical Race Theory′s conflicts with and connections to qualitative research methodology and epistemology - Laurence Parker and Marvin LynnWriting the ′Wrongs′ of Fieldwork: Confronting our own research writing dilemmas in urban ethnographies - Michelle Fine and Lois WeisOn Tricky Ground: Researching the native in the age of uncertainty - Linda Tuhiwai SmithRhizovocality - Alecia Youngblood JacksonExtracts from Performance Ethnography: Critical pedagogy and the politics of culture - Norman DenzinThe Bone in the Throat: Some uncertain thoughts on baroque method - Maggie MacLureVOLUME THREE: KEY SUBSTANTIVE FIELDS AND TOPICS OF INQUIRY IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN EDUCATIONPart A: Social Scientific Topics and IssuesExtracts from Life in Classrooms - Philip JacksonA Model of Classroom Coping Strategies - Andrew PollardCoping at School through Humour - Peter WoodsExtracts from Learning to Labour: How working class kids get working class jobs - Paul WillisDeadlier than the Male? Girls′ conformity and deviance in school - Lewes DaviesCherokee School Society and the Intercultural Classroom - Robert Dumont and Murray WaxEmpowerment and Cultural Conflict: Navajo parents and the schooling of their children - Donna DeyhleThe Silenced Dialogue: Power and pedagogy in educating other people′s children - Lisa DelpitBeyond the White Norm: The use of qualitative methods in the study of black youth′s schooling in England - Mairtin Mac an GhaillFlexible Identities: Exploring race and gender issues among a group of immigrant pupils in an inner-city comprehensive school - Naz RassoolWho is ′Us′? Students negotiating discourses of racism and national indentification in Australia - Julie McLeod and Lyn YatesI Don′t Need This: Acts of transgression by students with special educational needs - Julie AllanSex-Gender-Sexuality: How sex, gender and sexuality constellations are constituted in secondary school - Deborah YoudellBecoming Schoolgirls: The ambivalent project of subjectification - Bronwyn Davies et alThe Question of Belief: Writing post-structural ethnography - Deborah BritzmanPart B: Investigating Education Policy and PracticeExtracts from The Man in the Principal′s Office - Harry WolcottThe Reconstruction of Primary Teachers′ Identities - Peter Woods and Bob JeffreyGood School/Bad School: Paradox and fabrication - Stephen Ball"I′ll be a Nothing": Structure, agency and the construction of identity through assessment - Diane Reay and Dylan WiliamExtracts from High Stakes Education - Pauline LipmanInvestigating Formative Classroom Assessment - Harry Torrance and John PryorEducation Change over Time? The sustainability and nonsustainability of three decades of secondary school change and continuity - Andy Hargreaves and Ivor GoodsonVOLUME FOUR: CONTEMPORARY METHODS, ISSUES AND DEBATES IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN EDUCATION - ETHICS, SCIENCE, POLICY AND POLITICSExtracts from Action Research: A methodology for change and development - Bridget SomekhRepresenting Teachers - Ivor GoodsonStorying Schools: Issues around attempts to create a sense of feel and place in narrative research writing - Pat SikesVisual Methods and the Visual Culture of Schools - Jon ProsserMultimodal Ethnography - Bella Dicks et alEthnography and Data Re-use: Issues of context and hypertext - Bella Dicks et alMultiple Methods in Qualitative Research with Children: More insight or just more? - Philip Darbyshire, Colin MacDougal and Wendy SchillerDeveloping an Emancipatory Research Agenda: Possibilities and dilemmas - Len BartonEthics, Institutional Review Boards and the Changing Face of Educational Research - Kenneth Howe and Katharine DoughertyQualitative Research and Institutional Review Boards - Yvonna Lincoln and William TierneyEthics and Ethnography - Paul AtkinsonResearch Ethical Guidelines and Anonymity - Geoffrey WalfordRethinking Ethics Review as Institutional Discourse - Christine Halse and Anne Honey′Caught in the Act′: Ethics committee review and researching the sexual culture of schools - Louisa Allen′Reading′ the Nursery Classroom: A Foucauldian perspective - Liz Jones and Tony BrownDeterritorializations: Putting postmodernism to work on teacher education and inclusion - Julie AllanBeyond ′Emotional Literacy′ in Feminist and Educational Research - Erica BurmanScientific Culture and Educational Research - Michael Feuer, Lisa Towne and Richard ShavelsonCulture, Rigor and Science in Educational Research - Frederick Erickson and Kris GutierrezThis IS your Father′s Paradigm: Government intrusion and the case of qualitative research in education - Patti LatherThe Issue of Quality in Qualitative Research - Martyn HammersleySystematic Research Synthesis to Inform Policy, Practice and Democratic Debate - David Gough and Diana Elbourne′Clarity Bordering on Stupidity′: Where′s the quality in systematic review? - Maggie MacLureSynthesis Through Meta-Ethnography: Paradoxes, enhancements and possibilities - Lynn DoyleHow Can Systematic Reviews Incorporate Qualitative Research? A critical perspective - Mary Dixon-Woods et alBuilding Confidence in Qualitative Research: Engaging the demands of policy - Harry Torrance

′Torrance offers the field a rich and expansive set of readings. His intervention is bold in its claims, conservative in its approach. It will most certainly serve its readers well-new as well as seasoned researchers and scholars. It will also call up new audiences, at the intersections between education and qualitative research′ - Greg Dimitriadis, University of Buffalo, SUNY