Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach, Second Edition provides researchers and students with a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to planning qualitative research. A bestseller in its First Edition, this invaluable book presents an innovative approach to the components of design and how they interact with each other. The text presents a clear strategy for creating coherent and workable relationships among these design components and highlights key design issues. Based on a course the author taught for seven years at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the work is written in an informal, jargon-free style and incorporates many examples and hands-on exercises.

Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach (Applied Social Research Methods)

Politics & Social Sciences

Maxwell, Joseph A.

Social Sciences

Sage Publications, Inc.

Qualitative Research Design: An Interative Approach

Sage Pubns

This ground-breaking book makes the case for employing a realist philosophical perspective in qualitative research. Joseph Maxwell argues for critically applying a realist ontology to a number of important theoretical and methodological issues. The book o

A Realist Approach For Qualitative Research

This invaluable book presents an innovative approach to qualitative design that emphasizes the components of a design and how these interact with each other and the environment in which the study is situated. A clear strategy for creating coherent and workable relationships among these design components is provided and key design issues are highlighted. These design issues include: clarifying the purposes of the study; creating a theoretical context for the research; formulating research questions; developing a relationship with the people being studied; making decisions about sampling, data collection and analysis; and assessing validity threats and alternative explanations to the study′s conclusions. In addition, the book explains how

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This invaluable book presents an innovative approach to qualitative design that emphasizes the components of a design and how these interact with each other and the environment in which the study is situated. A clear strategy for creating coherent and workable relationships among these design components is provided and key design issues are highlighted. These design issues include: clarifying the purposes of the study; creating a theoretical context for the research; formulating research questions; developing a relationship with the people being studied; making decisions about sampling, data collection and analysis; and assessing validity threats and alternative explanations to the study′s conclusions. In addition, the book explains how

In&nbsp;Mixed Methods Research Outside the Box,prominent&nbsp;author Joseph A. Maxwell shows readers how to do unconventional, yet effective, mixed methods research. Mixed Methods Research Outside the Box&nbsp;gives readers a new way to think about and combine qualitative and quantitative research. This readable text takes a broad view of mixed methods,&nbsp;revealing the largely unrecognized early history of mixed methods research and its current diversity across disciplines, identifying its philosophical bases, presenting an "interactive" model of design that more closely integrates qualitative and quantitative elements, and emphasizing the complementarity of qualitative and quantitative methods for understanding causation and generalization. Maxwell brings together work on combining qualitative and quantitative methods from a variety of disciplines and puts them in conversation with one another. Drawing from recent works on causation, integration, and philosophy of science, this text promotes innovations in mixed methods such as process tracing in political science and design-based research in education. This groundbreaking book provides readers with a new way of thinking about developing and conducting mixed methods research.

Mixed Methods Research Outside the Box

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach, Third Edition provides researchers and students with a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to planning qualitative research. Joseph A. Maxwell shows how the components of design interact with each other, and provides a strategy for creating coherent and workable relationships among these design components, highlighting key design issues. Written in an informal, jargon-free style, the book incorporates examples and hands-on exercises. "This book uses everyday language that will captivate students′ attention and embed practical knowledge to supplement the technical." ―Gaetane Jean-Marie, University of Oklahoma
"The key strengths of the text are the passion and the enthusiasm that Dr. Maxwell has for qualitative research after all these years. I feel I can also utilize these concepts on my own research team and take them out of the classroom and into research team meetings with colleagues." ―Deborah Gioia, University of Maryland, Baltimore 
"I really liked this book. I found myself taking notes and saying "yes" so many times because Maxwell captures the research process so well and provides many points worth quoting. As a faculty mentor, I particularly see the value of this book for my students who are conducting qualitative dissertations." ―Mary S. Enright, Capella University"The text is incredibly engaging and practical...So many of the issues raised in the book are central to qualitative research, yet often not explicitly discussed in ′public′ venues." - David Carlone, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro "I particularly like the interactive focus and believe that helps students to more realistically engage qualitative research design. It certainly lives up to its billing as a good guidebook, and I appreciate the fact that the author really concentrates on useful content, exercises, insights, and examples, and leaves extensive theory discussions to others." - Sharon L. Caudle, Texas A &amp; M University

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Creswell, John W.

Stringer, Ernest (Ernie) T.

We offer these texts bundled together at a discount for your students.  Creswell: Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches 4e  The eagerly anticipated Fourth Edition of the title that pioneered the comparison of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research design is here! For all three approaches, Creswell includes a preliminary consideration of philosophical assumptions, a review of the literature, an assessment of the use of theory in research approaches, and refl ections about the importance of writing and ethics in scholarly inquiry. He also presents the key elements of the research process, giving specifi c attention to each approach. The Fourth Edition includes extensively revised mixed methods coverage, increased coverage of ethical issues in research, and an expanded emphasis on worldview perspectives.  Maxwell: Research Design: An Interactive Approach 3e  This book provides researchers and students with a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to planning qualitative research. It shows how the components of design interact with each other, and provides a strategy for creating coherent and workable relationships among these design components, highlighting key design issues. Written in an informal, jargon-free style, the book incorporates examples and hands-on exercises.  Stringer: Action Research 4e   The Fourth Edition of Ernest T. Stringer’s best-selling Action Research offers easy-to-follow, clear guidelines that enable novice practitioner researchers to move comfortably through a process of inquiry and applied research. Featuring real-life examples and providing effective solutions that foster understanding of research procedures in real-life contexts, the book offers a simple but highly effective model for approaching action research:  Look: building a picture and gathering information,  Think: interpreting and explaining, and  Act: resolving issues and problems.   Using his own experience as a guide, Stringer encourages readers to grapple with the broader political and ethical challenges that frame each inquiry. The author’s engaging style makes the book especially relevant to those working with children, young adults, or people in community contexts, and is particularly relevant to those dealing with issues of diversity or with marginalized and disenfranchised groups. Clear, concise, and practical, Stringer’s accessible and engaging book is a must for students and professionals in educational, business, health, counseling, and social work settings.

BUNDLE: Creswell: Research Design 4e + Maxwell: Qualitative Research Design 3e + Stringer: Action Research 4e

Stringer, Ernest T.

We offer these texts bundled together at a discount for your students.  David Silverman, A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research, Second Edition David Silverman's second edition provides a refreshing introduction to doing and debating qualitative research. An antidote to the standard textbook, this new edition shows how research can be methodologically inventive, empirically rigorous, theoretically-alive and practically relevant.   Using materials ranging from photographs to novels and newspaper stories, the book demonstrates that getting to grips with qualitative methods means asking ourselves fundamental questions about how we are influenced by contemporary culture. By drawing on examples from websites and social media in the new edition, Silverman's text acknowledges how our social worlds are changing and explores new arenas for data collection. A new Glossary of Received Ideas aims to challenge conventional understandings of terms central to qualitative research and will inform, amuse and stimulate readers.  Lyn Richards, README FIRST for a User's Guide to Qualitative Methods, Third Edition The Third Edition of this popular text offers those new to qualitative inquiry a clear and practical guide to the reasons for doing qualitative research, matching questions to appropriate methods, and the tasks necessary for getting started. In their direct and friendly style, Lyn Richards and Janice M. Morse help researchers reflect on why they are working qualitatively and how to choose an appropriate method, and then approach confidently the tasks of research design, data making, coding, analyzing, and, finally, writing up results.   Joseph A. Maxwell, Qualitative Research Design, Third Edition This book provides researchers and students with a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to planning qualitative research. It shows how the components of design interact with each other, and provides a strategy for creating coherent and workable relationships among these design components, highlighting key design issues. Written in an informal, jargon-free style, the book incorporates examples and hands-on exercises.  Please contact your Sales Representative for more information.

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Richards, Lyn

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Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach (Applied Social Research Methods)

Qualitative Research Design: An Interative Approach

A Realist Approach For Qualitative Research

Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach (Applied Social Research Methods)

Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach (Applied Social Research Methods)

Mixed Methods Research Outside the Box

Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach (Applied Social Research Methods)

BUNDLE: Maxwell, Qualitative Research Design 2e + Creswell, Research Design 3e + Action Research 3e

BUNDLE: Creswell: Research Design 4e + Maxwell: Qualitative Research Design 3e + Stringer: Action Research 4e

BUNDLE: Silverman:A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research, 2e + Richards: ReadMe First for a User′s ... 3e + Maxwell: Qualitative Research Design, 3e