DPLS 723 Qualitative-Summer 01-Doctoral Leadership-Gonzaga

DPLS 723--Qualitative Research: Theory and Design--3 credits
Summer 2001

Session 4: July 9, Writing up results. Different approaches to qualitative Ethnography and Case Study.


Professor: James Beebe Office: RC 256 Office Phone: (509) 323-3484 Home phone: 456-2571	Room RC 218 6/25, 7/2, 7/6, 7/9, 7/16, 7/23 7/30 6:00-10:00
Office hours: Call for appointment	email: beebe@gonzaga.edu


Course Description Course Objectives Learning Activities Web Based Syllabus Assessment and Grading Required Texts	BLACKBOARD LINK Blackboard Information and Login Instructions Bibliography and On-line Resources	Sessions and Assignments Advanced Session 1: June 25 Session 2: July 2 Session 3: July 6	Session 4: July 9 Session 5: July 16 Session 6: July 23 Session 7: July 30

THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE FAIR PROCESS MANUAL

Reading assignment
Becker (1986, pp. 164 -167, 1-108 and then reread pages 164-167) Writing for Social Scientists
Wolcott (1990, pp. 9-90) Writing Up Qualitative Research.
Creswell (1998, pp. 167-191) Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design.
Creswell, John (1998, pp. 193-218) Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design.
Creswell (1998) Ethnography and Case Study(See pages identified in the Analytic Table of Contents by Tradition)
Ely (1991, pp. 179-218) Reflecting. Doing Qualitative Research.
Miles and Huberman (1994),( pp245-top 277) Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expanded Source book.

OptionalLab Notes by Tim Rogers and Tanya Kalmanovitch Department of Psychology at the University of Calgary Psychology 413: Nonexperimental Research Methods in Psychology
Writing Up
http://www.psych.ucalgary.ca/CourseNotes/old/PSYC413/Assignments/LabManual/proj4/writeup.html

Written assignment
(a) Identify at least one important point from the assigned Miles and Huberman reading You may either quote or do a summary of the points and should identify the pages where the material is found. Follow this with one to three sentences of a subjective response. Post to the Discussion Board by 9:00pm July 8.
(b) Return to the log of the RAP and identify at least three ideas from the Miles and Huberman referenced in Beebe 2001 (you might want to look at Miles and Huberman) assignment that you could use in "making sense" out of it and indicated how you would use each. Bring your notes to class.
(c)Identify at least one important point from Becker, Wolcott, Creswell and Ely, that you would not want your classmates to miss. You may either quote or do a summary of the points and should identify the pages where the material is found. Follow this with one or two sentences that compare the differences in approaches suggested by each of these autors and one to three sentences of a subjective response. Post to the Discussion Board by 9:00pm July 8.
(d)Bring to class two or three sentences that describe Ethnography and Case Study how they differs from each other. Does not have to be posted to the Discussion Board.
(e) Locate and make a copy of a qualitative research study that is of particular interest to you. This should be an article (or even a dissertation) that used a qualitative approach and NOT an article about qualitative methodology.

Examples and Possible sources of on-line articles using qualitative research. You may be more successful finding a article that interests you in one of the journals that publish qualitative research Periodicals Friendly to Qualitative Research.

On-line full articles (but not all are qualitative)
Education Policy Analysis Archives
Electronic Journal of Sociology
Sociological Research Online
Studies using NUD*IST [http://www.qsr.com.au/resources/articles&reviews.asp#reports] 06/27/01

Tables-of Content and Other information on journals that publish qualitative research

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 06/27/01 [http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/frameloader.html?http://www.journals.tandf.co.uk/journals/tf/09518398.html]
The Qualitative Review
Qualitative Health Research
Anthropology and Education Quarterly [http://www.aaanet.org/cae/aeq/index.htm] 06/27/01

Resources for Social Researchers maintained by Kevan Edwards, University of Minnesota.
Anthropology Web Links maintained by Jim Moore 6/24/00
Example: Teacher Socialization in Technological Education from the Journal of Technology Education

Class activities
Students will participate in two mini-focus group interviews, each moderated by a different volunteer moderator. We will not be recording these sessions. The topic for the interviews will be the views of students on whether and how the Doctoral Program in Leadership could increase its international focus. Discussion following each interview will focus on strengths and areas for improvement of the moderator and what substantive information should change the next round.

Discussion of Ethnography and Case Study led by volunteers. Special attention to conditions where each would be appropriate..

Small group work on codes of the interview
Start with discussion of what needs to be changed in the log.
Work on codes for the transcript.
Discussion on the use of Miles and Huberman. Implications for the RAP interview analysis
Start the analysis process based on Miles and Huberman.

Presentation by groups on their progress.

Let the instructor approve the research study that you have copied.


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