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Maxwell (education, George Mason U.) has definite ideas on qualitative research design, and presents those, rather than a compendium of conventional wisdom, to students just beginning research for their dissertation and to other new researchers. Without noting a date for the first edition, he has revised his discussion of paradigm issues, personal goals, site and participant selection, validity, and other topics. He has also made his realist philosophical foundation more explicit. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
More Reviews and RecommendationsJoseph A. Maxwell is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University, where he teaches courses on research design and methods. He is the author of Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach (Sage, 1996), as well as papers on qualitative methodology, mixed method research, socio-cultural theory, and medical education. He has also worked extensively in applied settings. He has given seminars and workshops on teaching qualitative research methods and on using qualitative methods in various applied fields, and has been an invited speaker at conferences and universities in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Europe, and China. He has a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago.