The SAGE Dictionary of Qualitative Inquiry by Thomas A. Schwandt

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  • Publisher: SAGE Publications
  • Pub. Date: March 2007
  • ISBN-13: 9781412909273
  • Sales Rank: 180,512
  • 376pp
  • Edition Description: Third Edition
  • Edition Number: 3
 
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Intended as a guide to the terms and phrases that partially shape the nature, purpose, logic, meaning, and methods of the practices called qualitative inquiry, this new edition has 110 additional new terms as well as new key references for every entry. These key references help acquaint readers with the complexity of the issues behind the concepts examined in the book. In addition, most of the entries have been expanded and clarified to enhance readers' comprehension of the concepts. Taken in their entirety, the entries are less a technical guide to qualitative methods and more of a guide to concepts and theoretical orientations in qualitative studies. Students and researchers will find this book a marvelous vessel for navigating the various streams of qualitative studies and as a starting point for launching their own investigations into methodological issues.

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ˇ Key references for each entry provide readers with the best sources for further reading on each topic ˇ 110 additional new terms as requested by readers

University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana - Norman K. Denzin

Stunning, absolutely breathtaking in its grasp of the field, clear-headed, and so accessible in its thinking through of difficult topics, terms, theoretical formations, theorists, and distinctions. I recommend it to the field!

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Biography

Thomas A. Schwandt is Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also holds appointments in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory and the Interdisciplinary Concentration in Cultural Studies and Interpretive Research. Previously, he was a faculty member at Indiana University (IU) and a fellow of the IU Poynter Center for Ethics and American Institutions, a member of the faculty in medical evaluation at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and was employed as an evaluator and organizational consultant in the private sector. He has lectured on interpretive methodologies and theory of evaluation in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark and held visiting appointments at both research institutions and universities in those countries. His papers on qualitative methodology, issues in the philosophy of social science, and evaluation have appeared in a variety of books and journals. His latest book is Evaluation Practice Reconsidered, which is scheduled for publication in 2002.

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