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Constructing Methodology for Qualitative Research

Researching Education and Social Practices

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Bobby Harreveld

    1. School of Education and the Arts, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia

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  2. Mike Danaher

    1. School of Education and the Arts, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia

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  3. Celeste Lawson

    1. North Rockhampton Campus, Central Queensland University, North Rockhampton, Australia

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  4. Bruce Allen Knight

    1. Central Queensland University , Townsville, Australia

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  5. Gillian Busch

    1. Central Queensland University, Rockhampton North, Australia

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  • Analyzes the act of qualitative research from the context and perspective of the researcher
  • Explores the challenges of methodological choice to provide audacious yet thoughtful responses to the work of qualitative researchers
  • Highlights the deceptive strength of qualitative research and its points of vulnerability

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Education Research Methods (PSERM)

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About this book

This book explores the webs of vulnerability in methodological decision-making that illustrate the deceptive strength of qualitative research. Each chapter will resonate with readers differently as they read themselves into the tensions and tangles of qualitative research when confronted with the challenges of establishing methodological frameworks for educational and social enquiry. The authors are postgraduate, early career researchers and supervisors who analyse their methodological encounters with the nimble, fluid, messy and iterative processes of qualitative research. The book flows structurally from positioning the researcher within these processes to the manoeuvring of self across necessarily selective social science disciplines in education, arts and humanities. It rejuvenates the pioneering spirit, the sense of mission and innovativeness of qualitative research.

 

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Bobby Harreveld, Mike Danaher, Celeste Lawson, Bruce Allen Knight, Gillian Busch
    Pages 1-14

  3. A Non-binary Methodological Manoeuvre: Expert Quantitative and Novice Qualitative Researcher

    • Gemma Mann
    Pages 15-29

  4. Dipping Qualitative Toes into a Quantitative Worldview: Methodological Manoeuvres in a Multicultural Context

    • Cynthia Cowling, Celeste Lawson
    Pages 31-44

  5. Navigating the Path Between Positivism and Interpretivism for the Technology Academic Completing Education Research

    • Michael A. Cowling
    Pages 45-58

  6. A Bricoleur Approach to Navigating the Methodological Maze

    • Reyna Zipf
    Pages 59-72

  7. Manoeuvring Through the Maze of Methodology: Constructing the Research-Ready Embodied RHD Student

    • Teresa Moore
    Pages 73-87

  8. Elements of a Fusionist Ontology: Paradigmatic Choices in Understanding the Reasons for Career Change

    • Rickie Fisher
    Pages 89-104

  9. We Cannot Do This Work Without Being Who We Are: Researching and Experiencing Academic Selves

    • Sarah Loch, Alison L. Black
    Pages 105-122

  10. Show and Tell: A Practice-Led Methodological Solution for Researchers in Creative Writing

    • Leanne Dodd
    Pages 123-137

  11. Articulating the Fact Behind the Fiction: Narrative Inquiry as a Research Methodology for Historical Novelists

    • Alison Owens
    Pages 139-153

  12. On Manoeuvre: Navigating Practice-Led Methodology in a Creative Writing PhD for the First Time

    • Mike Danaher, Margaret Jamieson
    Pages 155-169

  13. Methodological and Other Research Strategies to Manoeuvre from Single to Multi- and Interdisciplinary Project Partnerships

    • Donna Lee Brien, Margaret McAllister
    Pages 171-186

  14. Contested Concepts: Negotiating Debates About Qualitative Research Methods Such as Grounded Theory and Autoethnography

    • Steven Pace
    Pages 187-200

  15. Discursive Manoeuvring in the Borderlands of Career Transition: From Trade to Teacher

    • Bill Blayney, Bobby Harreveld
    Pages 201-217

  16. Understanding and Influencing Research with Children

    • Alison L. Black, Gillian Busch
    Pages 219-235

  17. From Fledgling Manoeuvres to Methodological Confidence: Conversations Between a Doctoral Student and Supervisor on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis to Explore the Everyday Worlds of Children and Families

    • Gillian Busch, Susan Danby
    Pages 237-252

  18. Reimagining Rooms for Methodological Manoeuvres: Distilled Dilemmas, Proposed Principles and Synthesised Strategies in Research Education and Social Practices Qualitatively

    • P. A. Danaher
    Pages 253-268

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 269-270
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Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Education and the Arts, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia

    Bobby Harreveld, Mike Danaher

  • North Rockhampton Campus, Central Queensland University, North Rockhampton, Australia

    Celeste Lawson

  • Central Queensland University , Townsville, Australia

    Bruce Allen Knight

  • Central Queensland University, Rockhampton North, Australia

    Gillian Busch

About the editors

Bobby Harreveld is Professor of Education and Deputy Dean (Research) in the School of Education & the Arts at Central Queensland University, Australia. She works in postgraduate early career researcher education, learning transitions and professional education pathways. She is co-author of Deschooling L’earning: Young Adults and the New Spirit of Capitalism.


Mike Danaher is Senior Lecturer of History and Geography at Central Queensland University, Australia. He has published in the fields of environmental and geographical education. He is co-author of Researching Education with Marginalized Communities.   


Bruce Allen Knight is Professor of Education at Central Queensland University, Australia. He has more than 200 publications and worked on large research projects worth more than AUD$5 million from such granting bodies as the Australian Research Council. 


Celeste Lawson is Lecturer and Head of the Professional Communication Program at Central Queensland University, Australia. Her research interests include policing, police culture, organisational communication and social media in an organisational context. 



Gillian Busch is Senior Lecturer in Education at Central Queensland University, Australia.  Gillian has methodological expertise in qualitative approaches including ethnomethodology and conversation analysis.


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