Qualitative Research: An Introduction to Methods and Designs
by STEPHEN D. LAPAN, MARYLYNN T. QUARTAROLI, FRANCES JULIA RIEMER
Overview of the Text
Our aim for this text is to offer an up-to-date guide to qualitative research design, data collection, analysis, and reporting written by articulate and accessible scholars. Learning about research methodologies from expert investigators themselves is particularly revealing, especially when their choices of paradigms are shaped by both discipline and personal beliefs. As Schwandt (1989) observes,
Our constructions of the world, our values, and our ideas about how to inquire into those constructions, are mutually self-reinforcing. We conduct inquiry via a particular paradigm because it embodies assumptions about the world that we believe and values that we hold, and because we hold those assumptions and values we conduct ...
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