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Weaving Narrative Nets to Capture Classrooms

Multimethod Qualitative Approaches for Educational Research

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  1. David Geelan

    1. University of Alberta, Canada

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Part of the book series: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education (CTISE, volume 21)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Disciplined Inquiry In Chaotic Contexts

    Pages 1-4

  3. Fitting Into The Field

    Pages 5-13

  4. But How Good Is It?

    Pages 14-27

  5. Measuring The Tale

    Pages 28-33

  6. Research Questions And Contexts

    Pages 34-44

  7. Expectations And Constraints

    Pages 45-48

  8. Constructivism And The Nature Of Science

    Pages 49-62

  9. Places To Stand, Ways To Look

    Pages 63-134

  10. Tales Of Different Kinds

    Pages 135-143

  11. The Real World?

    Pages 144-163

  12. Love And Life, Teaching And Learning

    Pages 164-172

  13. Where To From Here?

    Pages 173-181

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 182-190
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About this book

If you’re the kind of reader who usually skips the Preface (I am), you can certainly do that. It’s probably valuable, though, for me to spend a little time describing the structure of this book to orient you to the way the argument unfolds. My intention was to try to find the best possible blend of theory and practice. I believe there are plenty of excellent books describing the theoretical underpinnings of qualitative research in education (Denzin & Lincoln, 1994, 2000; Eisner, 1998; Guba & Lincoln, 1989; Lincoln & Guba, 1985). A number of those books are cited here, and their arguments summarized. There are also books that report qualitative studies using narrative methods (Melko, 1998; Harold, 2000; Wolcott, 1973). There are fewer books that focus on describing in detail how to conduct these studies (Anderson, Kerr & Nihlen, 1994; Van Manen, 1990; Wolcott, 1990) for an audience that is not already familiar with both the methods and the philosophical commitments that underpin qualitative research. This book is intended to do all of these things to some extent, or to refer you to other authors who I think do them well, but its original contribution is in using as a concrete example a particular research study that I completed. This allows me to reflect on the processes and practices, and particularly the choices, involved in qualitative classroom research, and to illustrate those reflections in a very practical way.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Alberta, Canada

    David Geelan

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Weaving Narrative Nets to Capture Classrooms

  • Book Subtitle: Multimethod Qualitative Approaches for Educational Research

  • Authors: David Geelan

  • Series Title: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5700-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1776-6Published: 31 December 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3856-3Published: 15 February 2007

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5700-7Published: 29 September 2007

  • Series ISSN: 1878-0482

  • Series E-ISSN: 1878-0784

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 190

  • Topics: Science Education, Learning & Instruction

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