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Creswell, John W.

Qualitative inquiry and research design: choosing among five approaches / John W. Creswell - 3 rd ed. - London : Sage Publications, 2013 - xxi, 448 p.: col. ill.; 25 cm.

Originally published in print: 2013.

Includes references

Introduction
Philosophical assumptions and interpretive frameworks
Designing a qualitative study
Five qualitative approaches to inquiry
Five different qualitative studies
Introducing and focusing the study
Data collection
Data analysis and representation
Writing a qualitative study
Standards of validation and evaluation
"Turning the story" and conclusion

This text compares and contrasts the five major qualitative traditions: biography, case study, ethnography, grounded theory, and phenomenology. Five actual journal articles are reproduced in the appendix as examples of the different research designs


eng.

ISBN: 1412995302 TZS 89,451/= 9781412995306

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social Sciences methods
Social sciences Methodology
Qualitative studies
Validation and evaluation--qualitative studies
Research proposal structure
Data anaysis
Data interpretation --codes and themes

Dewey Class. No.: 370.72 CRE