Critical Issues in Qualitative Research Methods

About the Book

The issues of soundness of qualitative research are examined in this book. Contributors discuss how a researcher does qualitative research, considering such questions as: whether one deviates from the developer's protocol and what the ramifications are of such deviation; how students learn to acquire the conceptual skills necessary to conduct qualitative inquiry and how theory `emerges' from the data.



The book discusses group effect in focus groups and describes an observational method using videotaped data. The various schools of phenomenology and their major characteristics of excellence are explained, and the Glasserian and Straussian methods of grounded theory are compared. Issues of ethics and scientific integrity are also raised. Each chapter, dealing with a matter that has not yet been resolved or addressed in the literature, is preceded by a dialogue in which contributors raise questions and comment upon the concept presented.

Table of Contents:
Dialogue On Origins Qualitative Research - Janice M Morse Fact or Fantasy? Dialogue On Learning Qualitative Methods Abstract Knowing - Katharyn A May The Case for Magic in Method Dialogue More on Theory `Emerging from the Data′ - Janice M Morse The Cognitive Processes of Analysis in Qualitative Inquiry Dialogue The Democracy of Interpretation The Proof Is in the Pottery - Margarete Sandelowski Toward a Poetic for Qualitative Inquiry Dialogue On Qualitatively Derived Intervention Inside the Black Box - Janice M Swanson and Linda Chapman Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Conducting Evaluation Research Using a Qualitative Approach Basic Versus Applied Ethnography Evaluation Criteria and Critique of Qualitative Research Studies - Madeleine Leininger Dialogue Good Phenomenology is... The Richness of Phenomenology - Marilyn A Ray Philosophic, Theoretic and Methodologic Concerns Dialogue Clarifying Phenomenological Methods Schools of Phenomenology - Marlene Zichi Cohen and Anna Omery Implications for Research Dialogue On Emic and Etic Styles of Ethnography - Joyceen S Boyle Dialogue Sorting Out the Styles... On the Evaluation of Ethnographies - Majorie A Muecke Dialogue More on Muddling Methods Eroding Grounded Theory - Phyllis Noerager Stern Dialogue Questions About Focus Groups The Group Effect in Focus Groups - Martha Ann Carey Planning, Implementing, and Interpreting Focus Group Research Dialogue Using Videotaped Data Using Videotaped Recordings in Qualitative Research - Joan L Bottorff Dialogue On Mentoring Secondary Analysis in Qualitative Research - Sally Thorne Issues and Implications Dialogue On Writing It Up Qualitative Research Methods From the Reviewer′s Perspective - Melanie Dreher Dialogue Researcher-Participant Relationships Research and Therapeutic Interviews - Sally Hutchinson and Holly Wilson A Poststructuralist Perspective Dialogue On Being a Stranger in the Field Research Teams - Toni Tripp-Reimer et al Possibilities and Pitfalls in Collaborative Qualitative Research Dialogue The Politics of Writing Ethical Issues in Ethnography - Juliene G Lipson Dialogue Sloppy Science Promoting Academic Integrity in Qualitative Research - Kathleen A Knafl

About the Author :
Janice M. Morse, PhD (Nurs), PhD (Anthro), FAAN is a professor and Presidential Endowed Chair at the University of Utah College of Nursing, and Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Canada., from 1991-1996, she also held a position as professor at The Pennsylvania State University. From 1997-2007, she was the founding Director and Scientific Director of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, University of Alberta, founding editor for the International Journal of Qualitative Methods, and Editor of the Qual Press monograph series. She remains the founding editor for Qualitative Health Research, (now in Volume 2, Sage1), is currently editor for the monograph series Developing Qualitative Inquiry, and The Essentials of Qualitative Inquiry (Left Coast Press). Her research programs are in the areas of suffering and comforting, preventing patient falls, and developing qualitative methods. In 2011, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement in Qualitative Inquiry from the International Center for Qualitative Inquiry, was an inaugural inductee into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame (2010), the 5th recipient of the Episteme Award (also Sigma Theta Tau). She received awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Newcastle (Australia) and Athabasca University (Canada). She is the author of 460 articles and chapters and 19 books on qualitative research methods, suffering, comforting and patient falls.