Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber - The Practice of Qualitative Research

Engaging Students in the Research Process

Third Edition

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Names: Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy, author.

Title: The practice of qualitative research : engaging students in the research process / Sharlene Hesse-Biber.

Description: 3rd edition. | Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE, [2017] |Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015038939 | ISBN 9781452268088 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Social sciencesResearch. | Qualitative research.

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The third edition of The Practice of Qualitative Research continues to be committed to providing students and teachers with a practice model of qualitative approaches to research. Differing from other qualitative methods texts, it provides a problem-centric approach to engaging with qualitative research by linking the practice of any research method to specific research questions. Underscored is the importance of having a tight fit between the specific research question and the method or set of methods selected to answer a given research problem. Engaging with a qualitative approach to research that often calls for understanding the lived experiences of research participants requires a range of listening and reflexive skills that calls on the researcher, who is the data collector, to be reflective about the values and agendas he or she may bring into any given research endeavor. To practice research reflexively means to be aware of your own researcher standpoint, that is the set of values and attitudes you bring to any given research project, as well as an examination of those philosophical assumptions you have about the nature of the social world.

The third edition, while remaining true to these goals, also integrates the most current scholarly work in the area of qualitative approaches to research and integrates the use of online methods and computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software that can offer students new ways of collecting and analyzing data that allow for the asking of and addressing new questions.

The third edition continues to add to the pedagogical lessons garnered from the collective wisdom and feedback of the students and instructors who have used this book along with those insights I have gained in the teaching of qualitative research during the course of my teaching career.