Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches by John W. Creswell

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Textbook (Paperback - Second Edition)

  • 416pp
  • Sales Rank: 10,217

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  • ISBN-13: 9781412916073
  • Edition Description: Second Edition
  • Edition Number: 2
  • Pub. Date: December 2006
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications

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  • Pub. Date: December 2006
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications
  • Format: Textbook Paperback, 416pp
  • Sales Rank: 10,217

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"Creswell does an excellent job categorizing the various qualitative methods into five approaches: narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case study...The author has expanded on and updated the information he presented in the first edition of the book (Creswell, 1998), including discussion of the various schools of thought that have developed among qualitative researchers since the mid 1990's...Qualitative Inquiry & Research Design: Choosing among five approaches is a highly informative book; researchers will likely return again and against to the book as they expand their comfort zone within qualitative research."

-Peggy M. Delmas, University of Alabama

"Creswell has produced an even more outstanding and valuable text for qualitative research than the First Edition."
-Edith King, University of Denver

Like the bestselling First Edition, this new version explores the philosophical underpinnings, history, and key elements of each of five qualitative inquiry approaches: narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case study. Using an accessible and engaging writing style, author John W. Creswell compares theoretical frameworks, ways to employ standards of quality, and strategies for writing introductions to studies, collecting data, analyzing data, writing a narrative, and verifying results.

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Incl. five traditions of biography, phenomenological study, grounded theory study, ethnography, case study etc.

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Biography

John W. Creswell is a Professor of Educational Psychology at Teachers College, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  He is affiliated with a graduate program in educational psychology that specializes in quantitative and qualitative methods in education.  In this program, he specializes in qualitative and quantitative research designs and methods, multimethod research, and faculty and academic leadership issues in colleges and universities.

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