EDUC 8250 Qualitative Research I

Fall, 2004
Professor Margaret Eisenhart
Thursdays, 9 - 11:30 a.m.

Selected Bibliography


This bibliography is for your information. It provides a list of references that will give you a solid introduction to qualitative research methods in education. You may want to consult some of these sources for more information on topics of special interest to you.

Agar, Michael H. (1980). The Professional Stranger. New York: Academic Press.

Annual Review of Anthropology. (yearly issue)

Annual Review of Sociology. (yearly issue)

Anthropology and Education Quarterly. (quarterly journal)

Atkinson, Paul (1992). Understanding Ethnographic Texts. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Barley, Nigel (1983). The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut. New York: Henry Holt & Co.

Bruyn, Severyn T. (1963). The Methodology of Participant Observation. Human Organization, 22(3).

Cook, Thomas D. and Reinhardt, Charles S. (1979). Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Evaluation Research. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

Crane, Julia and Angrosino, Michael. Field Projects in Anthropology:. A Student Handbook. Morristown, NJ: General Learning Press.

Creswell, John (2004). Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research. Second Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Merrill Prentice Hall.

Denzin, Norman (1989). The Research Act. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Denzin, Norman and Lincoln, Yvonna, (Eds.) (2000). Handbook of Qualitative Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Eisenhart, Margaret and Borko, Hilda (1993). Designing Classroom Research: Themes, Issues, and Struggles. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Ellis, Carolyn and Bochner, Arthur. (Eds.) (1996). Composing Ethnography: Alternative Forms of Qualitative Writing. Thousand Oaks, CA: AltaMira Press.

Emerson, R. Fretz, R., and Shaw, L. (1995). Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Filstead, William J., (Ed.) (1970). Qualitative Methodology. Chicago: Markham Publishing.

Gay, John and Cole, Michael (1967). The New Mathematics and an Old Culture. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Goetz, Judith and LeCompte, Margaret (1984). Ethnography and Qualitative Design in Educational Research. New York: Academic Press.

Heath, Shirley Brice (1983). Ways with Words: Language, Life, and Work in Communities and Classrooms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Holland, D. and Eisenhart, M. (1990). Educated in Romance: Women, Achievement and College Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Holsti, Ole R., (1969). Content Analysis for the Social Sciences and Humanities. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Human Organization.(quarterly journal)

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. (quarterly journal)

Kaplan, David, and Manners, Robert A., (1972). Culture Theory. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Kerlinger, Fred (1973). Foundations of Behavioral Research, 2nd Edition. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Kleinman, Sherryl (1996). Opposing Ambitions: Gender and Identity in an Alternative Organization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Lamphere, Louise (Ed.) (1992). Structuring Diversity: Ethnographic Perspectives on the New Immigration. Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

LeCompte, Margaret, Preissle, Judith and Millroy, Wendy, (Eds.) (1992). The Handbook of Qualitative Research in Education. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Lofland, John (1976). Doing Social Life: The Qualitative Study of Human Interaction in Natural Settings. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Marcus, George E. and Fischer, Michael M.J. (1986). Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Maxwell, J. (1996). Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Mead, Margaret (1973). Coming of Age in Samoa. New York: William Morrow and Company.

Mind, Culture, and Activity.(quarterly journal).

Morgan, D. (1988). Focus Groups as Qualitative Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Naroll, Raoul and Cohen, Ronald, (Eds.) (1974). A Handbook of Method in Cultural Anthropology. New York: Columbia University Press.

Pelto, P.J. and G.H. Pelto (1978). Anthropological Research: The Structure of Inquiry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Riessman, Catherine (1993). Narrative Analysis. (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1993).

Roberts, Joan I. and Sherrie Akinsanya, (Eds.) (1976). Educational Patterns and Cultural Configurations. New York: David McKay.

Sage Series in Qualitative Research Methods (more than 40 volumes on various aspects of qualitative research; published by Sage Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA).

Sanjek, Roger, (Ed.) (1990). Fieldnotes: The Makings of an Anthropology. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Schensul, J.J. & LeCompte, M. (Eds.) (1999). Ethnographer’s Toolkit. 7 Volumes. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.

Schratz, Michael, (Ed.) (1992). Qualitative Voices in Educational Research. London: Falmer Press.

Shaffir, William, Stebbins, Robert, and Tureqetz, Allan, (Eds.) (1979). Fieldwork Experience: Qualitative Approaches to Social Research. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Shweder, Richard and Robert LeVine (1984). Culture Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Smith, Louis, and Geoffrey, W. (1968). Complexities of an Urban Classroom. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Spindler, George D., (Ed.) (1982). Doing the Ethnography of Schooling. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Spradley, James P. (1979). Ethnographic Interview. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Spradley, James P. (1980). Participant Observation. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Spradley, James P. and McCurdy, David W., (Eds.) (1972). The Cultural Experience: Ethnography in Complex Societies. Chicago: Science Research Associates, Inc.

Strauss, Anselm (1987). Qualitative Analysis for Social Scientists. New York: Cambridge University Press.

VanMaanen, John (1988). Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Wolcott, Harry (1973). Man in the Principal's Office New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Wolcott, Harry (1994). Transforming Qualitative Data. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Wolcott, Harry (1995). The Art of Fieldwork. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.

Wolcott, Harry (2001). Writing Up Qualitative Research. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.



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