Overview
- Covers place and context sensitive, as well as universally applied qualitative research methods
- Speaks to the different ways of knowing and inquiry with integrity, rigor and relevance
- Focuses on the introduction of various methods and means of inquiry
Part of the book series: Springer Texts in Education (SPTE)
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Table of contents (76 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- qualitative research concepts
- social sciences and humanities
- historical background of qualitative research concepts
- strengths and limitations of qualitative research concepts
- foundational research courses
- universally applied qualitative research methods
- Indigenous qualitative research methods
- qualitative research methods in sociology
- qualitative research methods in social work
- qualitative research methods in health sciences
- qualitative research methods in psychology
- qualitative research methods in kinesiology
- qualitative research methods in business studies
- research inquiry
- qualitative research methods in human and social sciences
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Janet Okoko is an Associate Professor in the department of Educational Administration, College of Education at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. Her research focuses on school leadership preparation and development. She has used qualitative research approaches such as case studies and phenomenology, with contextualized methods that incorporate interviews, focus group, mind mapping, transect walk, and photo elicitation, to study school leadership problems in various African countries and in Canada. She is currently studying teacher leadership, as well as school and system leaders’ preparation for work with culturally and linguistically diverse Newcomer/ Migrants. She has published work on school leadership preparation and development in Kenya, and on the experiences of Canadian school leaders with newcomers. In addition, she has co-authored a cross-cultural analysis of school principals’ preparation in Kenya, South Africa, and development for Canada.Her recent publication reports on the framing of school leadership preparation and development for Kenya and the essence of school leaders’ work with newcomer families in Saskatchewan, Canada. Scott Tunison
is an Assistant Professor in the department of Educational Administration, College of Education at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. His research focuses on evidence-informed leadership practice, strategic planning, and Indigenous education. He uses a broad range of qualitative research methods on their own and as part of mixed-methods investigations. He is currently studying district- and school-wide uptake of citizenship education instructional materials, models of district assessments of the efficacy of their support of Indigenous students and families, and school teams’ use of data as evidence of progress. He has published an authored book on processes to enhance K-12 leaders’ use of academic research to inform their practice. His other publications focus on reframing research ethics frameworks as guides for education systems’ use of data, K-12 leaders’ perspectives on honouring the best interests of children, educational administrators’ views of the value of academic research to guide their practice, developing community in online learning contexts, and processes for fostering and inspiring change and improvement in educational systems.
Keith Walker is a Professor in the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, where he has served for about 30 years. His academic interests, expertise, and activity revolve around positive leadership and organizational development, follower and community well-being, research methodologies, governance and decision making together with applied ethics in education, public administration and not-for-profit sectors. He most identifies with his roles as husband, father, grand-father, teacher-scholar, apprentice, colleague,mentor and friend. His formal education has been in several disciplines and fields of study, including physical education, theology, philosophy, education and educational administration. He has supervised over 100 graduate students to completion and has authored and co-authored over 150 chapters, books, and refereed articles
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Varieties of Qualitative Research Methods
Book Subtitle: Selected Contextual Perspectives
Editors: Janet Mola Okoko, Scott Tunison, Keith D. Walker
Series Title: Springer Texts in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04394-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04396-3Published: 14 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-04394-9Published: 01 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2366-7672
Series E-ISSN: 2366-7680
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 495
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 98 illustrations in colour
Topics: Research Methods in Education, Education, general, Higher Education