• Qualitative Inquiry in Daily Life
  • Cover
  • Preface
  • 1. Overview of qualitative inquiry and general texts on this topic
  • 2. Assumptions we make in doing qualitative inquiry
  • 3. Keeping a record, writing fieldnotes
  • 4. Relationship building to enhance inquiry
  • 5. Standards and quality in qualitative inquiry
  • 6. Focusing the inquiry
  • 7. Data collection
  • 8. Data interpretation
  • 9. Sharing and reporting
  • 10. Appendices
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    Preface
    Overview of qualitative inquiry and general texts on this topic
    A School Story of Qualitative Inquiry
    An Analysis of the Story
    Qualitative Inquiry Process
    The Reality about the Process
    Organization of this Book
    Conclusion
    Assumptions we make in doing qualitative inquiry
    Some Common Assumptions
    An Analysis of Assumptions
    Common Questions about Qualitative Inquiry
    Some Additional Beliefs and Assumptions Regarding Human Inquiry
    Conclusion
    Keeping a record, writing fieldnotes
    A Story
    An Analysis
    Kinds of Fieldnotes
    Example
    Some Ideas about Record Keeping
    Mechanics of Fieldnotes
    Conclusion
    Relationship building to enhance inquiry
    An Article-Based Story
    The Process
    Results and Conclusion
    An Analysis of KL's Experience
    Conclusion
    Standards and quality in qualitative inquiry
    A Self-Critique Story
    An Analysis
    Credibility
    Transferability
    Dependability
    Confirmability
    Other Criteria
    A Checklist
    Audit Trail
    Conclusion
    Focusing the inquiry
    A School's Superintendent's Story
    An Analysis
    Conclusion
    Data collection
    Gathering Through Observations, Interviews and Documents
    An Assistant Principal's Story
    General Lessons
    Observing Lessons
    Interviewing Lessons
    Document Review Lessons
    Conclusion
    Data interpretation
    A Graduate Student Story
    Story Reading Through Analysis, Synthesis and Interpretation
    An Analysis
    Spradley's Approach to Interpretation
    Domain Analysis
    Conclusion
    Sharing and reporting
    Sharing through Story Telling
    Revisiting Three Stories
    An Analysis of Three Stories
    Conclusion
    Appendices
    Appendix A.1 - A Sample Study from BYU-Public School Partnership
    Appendix A.2 - What Have We Learned?
    Appendix A.3 - Patterns of Experience
    Appendix B.1 - Allowing Space for Not-Knowing: What My Journal Teaches Me, Part 1
    Appendix B.2 - Allowing Space for Not-Knowing: What My Journal Teaches Me, Part 2
    Appendix B.3 - Allowing Space for Not-Knowing: What My Journal Teaches Me, Part 3
    Appendix B.4 - Allowing Space for Not-Knowing: What My Journal Teaches Me, Part 4
    Appendix B.5 - Marne's critique of her own study
    Appendix C - An Elementary School Example: My Observations of Jimmy
    Appendix D - Reflecting on Reflection
    Appendix E - A Study of Educational Change in Alberta
    Appendix F - Moving Ahead: A Naturalistic Study of Retention Reversal of Five Elementary School Children
    Appendix G.1 - An Examination of Teacher Reflection
    Appendix G.2 - Themes of Reflection
    Appendix H - Spradley's theme synthesis and report writing
    Appendix I - Index of Topics