qualitative research

Martin Ryder
University of Colorado at Denver
School of Education

Qualitative Research

This page contains links to resources that explain the art of qualitative educational research: critiques, literature reviews, research design methodologies and other articles. The resource is intended as an aid to educational practioners as informed consumers of published research and as active contributors to the body of knowledge that informs emerging practices involving information and learning technologies (ILT). By no means an exhustive index, this resource offers a glimpse into the range of qualitative research models and methodologies that can be found in contexts of ILT.

Resources

A Guide for the Perplexed (Jay Lemke)
Definitions of philosophical terms in research
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Edward Zalta, ed.)
Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind (Washington University, St. Louis)
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fieser and Dowden, eds.)
Principia Cybernetica Web (Francis Heylighen)
The Value of Knowledge: a Miniature Library of Philosophy (Andy Blunden)
Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research (Ya-Lin Liu and Gene Shackman)
Online Qualitative Research Resources (Susan Hawes)
Qualitative Research in Information Systems (Michael Myers)
FQS Forum Qualitative Social Research

Corollary sites that reference this page.

General Articles

Clifford Geertz
- Clifford Geertz, 1926-2006
- Geertz profile (Wikipedia)
- Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture
  - precis (M. Murphey)
  - Geertz profile (AnthroBase)
  - Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics (2000)
    - review (by Richard Schweder)
    - review (by Doug Renselle)
  - Interpretation of Culture (1973)
    - Thick Description: Toward and Interpretive Theory of Culture
    - Ideology as a Cultural System
    - abstract (Claudia Rector)
    - exerpts (Jon Mattox)
    - Electronic text available from Amazon.com
    - summary (Lee A. Makela)
    - Deep Play Notes on the Balinese Cockfight
    - Wasserstrom 92003) Anti-Americanisms, Thick Description, and Collective Action
Marie Hoepfl (1997) Choosing Qualitative Research: A Primer for Technology Education Researchers
Hope Olsen (1994) Quantitative "Versus" Qualitative Research: The Wrong Question
Sumara (2000) Interpreting Identities: Advancing Literary Anthropology as a Research Method
Baumann, Allan, and Shockley Research Questions Teachers Ask
Ian Kennedy (1999) How to do Research (A practical guide with web templates for the beginning researcher)
Stewart Constructivism and Collaborative Enterprises: A contribution to a conversation about a constructivist epistemology for the conduct of collaborative inquiry

Research Paradigms

General

Foundationalism

Positivist/Empiricist/Quantitative Research

Positivism (Catholic Encyclopedia)
Phillips and Burbules Positivism and Educational Research

Qualitative Research

Eisner profile (Sebastian Foti)
Eisner (1997) The Enlightened Eye: Qualitative Inquiry and the Enhancement of Educational Practice

Critical Pedagogy

Feminist Research

Qualitative Research Genres and Methods

Phenomenology and Hermeneutics
- Lye (1996) Some Principles of Phenomenological Hermeneutics
- Sampaio The Hermeneutic Conception of Culture
- Robinson (1999) Creating A Rhizome: The Process of Expressing Phenomenological Research in a Web based Dissertation
Grounded Theory
- The Grounded Theory Institute
- Introduction to Grounded Theory (Stephen Borgatti)
- Haig (1995) Grounded Theory as Scientific Method
- Calloway and Knapp (1995) Using Grounded Theory to Interpret Interviews
- Grounded Theory links (Geometry.Net)
Action Research
Ethnography
- Ethnographic Research (David Garson)
- Ethnographic Research (David Garson)
- Ethnograpic Research (Pathways)
- Lynn The Ethnographic Research Cycle
- A Synthesis of Ethnographic Research (Michael Genzuk)
- Grills (1998) Doing Ethnographic Research: Fieldwork Settings (Review by Christopher Faircloth)
Case Studies
- Case Studies (David Garson)
- Soy (1998) The Case Study as a Research Method
Learning Histories
- Roth and Kleiner What is a learning history?
- Roth and Kleiner Characteristics of a learning history
Abductive Inference
Activity Theory
The Research Interview
- Dick (1997) Convergent Interviewing
- Lee and Roth (2004) Making a Scientist: Discursive "Doing" of Identity and Self-Presentation During Research Interviews
- Susut The Interview: Narratives of War Veterans
Focus Groups
- What is Focus Group Research? (L&E Research Inc.)
- Gibbs Focus Groups
- Greenbaum various articles on focus groups.

Research Writing

Booth, Colomb, and Williams (1995) The Craft of Research
- Table of Contents

Examples of Research Projects

Professional Examples

Warschauer (2003) The Allures and Illusions of Modernity: Technology and Educational Reform in Egypt. pdf
Becker (1999) Internet Use by Teachers
Bransford, Brown, and Cocking (1999) How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School

Practitioner Examples

Cherednichenko, Hooley, Kruger and Moore (1999) Case Writing Analysis As A Means Of Profiling School Change
Kaufmann (1997) Radical pedagogy in action: A case study of a Chicano/a autobiography class.

Courses

Collaborative Action Research Project (Paul Guenther)
Qualitative Research Methods (E.P. Renne)
Research in Information and Learning Technologies (Martin Ryder)

All links verified May 02, 2008.

Main Index

May 02, 2008