Qualitative research in practice : examples for discussion and analysis / Sharan B. Merriam and associates.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Pt. 1. The Nature of Qualitative Inquiry. 1. Introduction to Qualitative Research / Sharan B. Merriam. 2. Assessing and Evaluating Qualitative Research / Sharan B. Merriam -- Pt. 2. Examples of Qualitative Research for Discussion and Analysis. 3. How Cultural Values Shape Learning in Older Adulthood: The Case of Malaysia / Sharan B. Merriam and Mazanah Muhamad. Do All These People Have To Be Here? Reflections on Collecting Data in Another Culture / Sharan B. Merriam. 4. Spirituality and Emancipatory Adult Education in Women Adult Educators for Social Change / Elizabeth J. Tisdell. Researching One's Passions: The Perils and Possibilities / Elizabeth J. Tisdell. 5. A Phenomenological Study of In-Church and Televised Worship / Richard F. Wolff. Self-Reflection: An Essential Quality for Phenomenological Researchers / Richard F. Wolff. 6. A Phenomenological Investigation of "Good" Supervision Events / Vaughn E. Worthen and Brian W. McNeill.

Phenomenological Research and the Making of Meaning / Vaughn E. Worthen. 7. Development of Professional School Counselor Identity: A Grounded Theory / Pamelia E. Brott and Jane E. Myers. My Journey with Grounded Theory Research / Pamelia E. Brott. 8. A Conceptual Model of Multiple Dimensions of Identity / Susan R. Jones and Marylu K. McEwen. Becoming Grounded in Grounded Theory Methodology / Susan R. Jones. 9. The Role of the School in the Assimilation of Immigrant Children: A Case Study of Arab-Americans / Ernestine K. Enomoto and Mary Antony Bair. Reflection of Our Own Inner Lives / Ernestine K. Enomoto and Mary Antony Bair. 10. Jermaine: A Critical Case Study of a Gifted Black Child Living in Rural Poverty / Thomas P. Hebert and Teresa M. Beardsley. Reflections on My Research Experience with Jermaine and His Community / Thomas P. Hebert. 11. The Ethnography of an Electronic Bar: The Lesbian Cafe / Shelley J. Correll. Reflections of a Novice Researcher / Shelley J. Correll.

12. Hard and Heavy: Gender and Power in a Heavy Metal Music Subculture / Leigh Krenske and Jim McKay. "You're Researching What?" The Importance of Self in Ethnographic Research / Leigh Krenske. 13. Stories of One's Own: Nonunitary Subjectivity in Narrative Representation / Leslie Rebecca Bloom. From Self to Society: Reflections on the Power of Narrative Inquiry / Leslie Rebecca Bloom. 14. Cathy: The Wrong Side of the Tank / Juanita Johnson-Bailey. Dancing Between the Swords: My Foray into Constructing Narratives / Juanita Johnson-Bailey. 15. Tootle: A Parable of Schooling and Destiny / Nicholas C. Burbules. Tootle Revisited: Fifteen Years Down the Track / Nicholas C. Burbules. 16. The Politics of Consumer Education Materials Used in Adult Literacy Classrooms / Jennifer A. Sandlin. Structure and Subjectivity: Reflections on Critical Research / Jennifer A. Sandlin. 17. Exposed Methodology: The Body as a Deconstructive Practice / Wanda S. Pillow.

Looking Back to Move Forward: Reflections on How I Did Research Impacts What I Know Now / Wanda S. Pillow. 18. Methodology in the Fold and the Irruption of Transgressive Data / Elizabeth A. St. Pierre. Troubling the Categories of Qualitative Inquiry / Elizabeth A. St. Pierre. 19. Reflections on Doing Qualitative Research / Sharan B. Merriam.