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Additional Resources and Weblinks to Accompany Each Part and Chapter
JOURNALS/GENERAL WEB
RESOURCES
The International Journal of Qualitative Methods is a peer
reviewed journal published quarterly as a web-based journal by the International Institute
for Qualitative Methodology at the
Forum: Qualitative Social Research is a peer-reviewed
multilingual online journal for qualitative research published three times a year.
The Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) is a freely available
Internet service which aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet
information for students, academics, researchers and practitioners in the social sciences,
business and law. It is part of the UK Resource Discovery Network.
Part I: Research Communities in the Social Sciences
Part II: Listening, Exploring the Case and Theorizing
Chapter 1 - Ethnography
Additional resources:
An additional annotated bibliography on
how to write up ethnographic research by Martyn Hammersley
Chapter
2 - Research Diaries
Webpage highlights
of how one of the author's has used case studies as educational tools for educators and
healthcare professionals working in partnerships in primary schools
Chapter 4 -
Interviewing and Focus Groups
Rosaline S.
Barbour’s homepage
Additional resources:
The Enquiry Learning Unit (ELU)
maintained by John Schostak contains a range of qualitative research papers from
introductory to those that have been presented at conferences or key note speeches.
It is a free resource for people to use however they wish!
Interviewing
– Creating the Space for Views is a working paper, presented at the British
Educational Research Association conference in 2004, that develops a novel notion of the
interview as a space that opens up alternative ways of seeing and thinking. This is a
concept that is still 'work in progress'. John Schostak hopes to add to it over
time, particularly in relation to his forthcoming book on interviewing for Open University
press.
The following links are
given in the references for this chapter and provide online access to articles and texts.
A link to Acquiring qualitative
skills for primary care research. Review and reflections on a three-stage workshop. Part
2: analysing interview data
Abstract for
above paper:
This paper
reflects on one Primary Care Research Network's (WoReN's) experience of running
a workshop on analysing qualitative interview data, provided as the second of a
three-part workshop concerned with acquiring qualitative interviewing skills.
It discusses the aims and limitations of the short workshop format in meeting
the needs of practitioners embarking on the process of analysing qualitative
data, drawing upon and reviewing the relevant research methods literature.
Particular attention is paid to the role of qualitative data analysis computer
packages and the debate on ‘grounded theory’. We conclude by making
suggestions with regard to designing and running data analysis workshops within
primary care.
Chapter 5 - Grounded Theory
Chapter 6 - Ethical Issues
Part III: Researching for Impact
Chapter 7 - Feminist Methodologies
Chapter 8 - Critical Theories of Race
Educational Action Research is a
journal that publishes accounts of a range of action research and related studies, in
education and across the professions, with the aim of making their outcomes widely
available and exemplifying the variety of possible styles of reporting. It aims to
establish and maintain a review of the literature of action research. It also provides a
forum for dialogue on the methodological and epistemological issues, enabling different
approaches to be subjected to critical reflection and analysis.
A multimedia paper by Bridget Somekh, Action Research & its Contribution to ICT Initiatives, can be found on the The Educational Research Forum.
Chapter 11 - Researching Policy
Additional resources:
The Journal of Education and Work
is a major international forum for academic research and policy analysis which focuses on
the interplay of the education and economic systems.
Chapter 12 - The Purpose,
Practice and Politics of Sponsored Evaluations
Chapter 13 - Philosophy and Hermeneutics
Additional
resources:
Some
of the ideas included in this chapter were developed from Angie Titchen’s work on
patient centred nursing:
Titchen, A. (2000)
Professional Craft Knowledge in Patient-Centred Nursing and the Facilitation of its
Development.
See
the abstract
for a description of this dissertation and the flier
for
information on how to obtain a copy.
Chapter
15 - Naturalistic Enquiry
Additional resources:
The Story from the Field in
this chapter has been edited and abridged from one of a set of case studies in
environmental education. The full text of this case study can be downloaded here. Robottom, I.,
Malone, K. and Walker, R. (2000) Case Studies in Environmental Education: Policy and
practice. Geelong, Victoria: Deakin University Press.
The following link is given
in the references for this chapter and provides online access to articles and texts.
Becker, H.S. (1999) ‘The Chicago School,
So-called’, Qualitative Sociology
Chapter 16 - Observation
Chapter 17 - Discourse Analysis
Chapter
18 - Life History and Narrative Approaches
The following link is given
in the references for this chapter and provides online access to articles and texts.
Gascoigne,
Rosalie (1997) The Poetry of Trash - an interview
Chapter 19 - Semiotic
Approaches to Image-Based Research
Semiotics for Beginners The excellent resource on Semiotics by Daniel Chandler. This site contains material which gives the reader a thorough introduction to the key concepts and terms in semiotics, as well as some practical examples of semiotic analysis in action.
Text Semiotics This website has a large
inventory of online resources related to textual
semiotics. There are many portals and gateways to semiotic resources on the web, and this
is one of the best ordered and comprehensive you will find.
Edith J.
Cisneros-Cohernour’s homepage
Additional resources:
The following list of
websites is given in the chapter as additional resources for those interested in this
field. The first three are references to an international association and journals
dedicated to this field of study. The three websites that follow are for university
centres of research that have been created to focus on the application of
Cultural-Historical Activity Theory in a variety of settings.
The official website of the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research (ISCAR) ISCAR is an association, whose purpose is the promotion and development of multidisciplinary, theoretical and empirical on societal, cultural and historical dimensions of human practices.
The oldest and most
established international journal: Mind,
Culture & Activity. Mind, Culture, and Activity (MCA) is an
interdisciplinary, international journal devoted to the study of the human mind in its
cultural and historical contexts. Articles appearing in MCA draw upon research and theory
in a variety of disciplines including anthropology, cognitive science, education,
linguistics, psychology and sociology. Particular emphasis is placed upon research that
seeks to resolve methodological problems associated with the analysis of human action in
everyday activities and theoretical approaches that place culture and activity at the
center of attempts to understand human nature.
Outlines - Critical Social Studies. Outlines is issued by the Department of
Psychology,
The Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (LCHC)
at the
Centre for Sociocultural
and Activity Theory Research (CSAT)
Center for Activity Theory and Developmental
Work Research (CATDWR)
The following link is given
in the references for this chapter and provides online access to articles and texts.
Part VI: Sampling, Classifying and Quantifying
Chapter 23 - The Foundations of
Experimental/Empirical Research Methods
Additional resources
(provided in a footnote in the chapter):
Another excellent web
resource describing the life and work of Karl Popper (and others such as Descartes and
Locke) from the Stanford Encyclopaedia
of Philosophy
Additional resources:
The Story from the Field was
based drawn from a project undertaken by Charles Crook, Learning sites: networked
resources and the learning community. The Learning Sites project is a
collaboration between
An excellent web resource
describing the life and work of Kuhn and Popper amongst others, from the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
Additional resources:
The Electronic Statistics
Textbook offers training in the understanding and application of statistics. The material
covers a wide variety of applications, including social science statistics and survey
research. The Electronic Textbook begins with an overview of the relevant elementary
concepts and continues with a more in depth exploration of specific areas of statistics. A
glossary of statistical terms and a list of references for further study are included.
StatSoft, Inc. (2004). Electronic
Statistics Textbook. Tulsa, OK: StatSoft
Chapter 26 - An Introduction to Inferential
Statistics: Testing for Differences and Relationships
Additional resources:
Chapter 27 - An Introduction
to Statistical Modelling
Additional
resources:
Further information on how
to code predictor variables in multiple regression
Web books on regression
using three statistical packages: Stata, SAS and SPSS
Software which indicates
required sample size for a given power for regression
The usefulness of multilevel
models in reality in addressing the widening participation issue can be seen from a study
entitled ‘Schooling effects on higher
education achievement’
Part VII: Quantitative Methods in Action
Chapter 28 - Random Reflections on Modelling,
Geography and Voting
Additional resources:
Kelvyn Jones has developed a
comprehensive guide on MultiLevel Modelling
including references for books, online training and tutorials, and alternative software
package information
More recent developments of
the work discussed in this Story from the Field are reported in an online working paper: A missing level
in the analysis of British voting behaviour: the household as context as shown by analyses
of a 1992-1997 longitudinal survey by Ron Johnston, Kelvyn Jones, Rebecca Sarker,
Simon Burgess, Carol Propper and Anne Bolster.
Access
to the reports and data bases of IEA and/or OECD referred to in this Story from the Field
Chapter 31 - Evaluating Literacy Advance in the
Early Years of School
Further information about
the Literacy Advance Research Project described in this Story from the Field can be found
in the interim project reports available online:
http://www.dest.gov.au/schools/publications/2002/threeyearson/LearningToRead.pdf
The full report, Five
Years On: Literacy Advance in the Primary Years, free on request plus postage and
handling:
http://www.cecv.melb.catholic.edu.au/
Chapter 32 - Working Backwards: The Road Less
Travelled in Quantitative Methodology
Additional resources:
This exciting volume offers
papers from a 2001 working conference on mixing methods in the
study of children’s development – in family, school, and community locales.
The key question addressed was, what did a mixed method approach uniquely contribute to
our understanding about children’s developmental pathways?
Note the chapter by Weiss,
Kreider, Mayer, Hencke and Vaughan, which explores the same mixed method journey as the
chapter in Research Methods in the Social Sciences, only in more depth and for an audience
of researchers. This website offers a mixed method
network for the behavioral, social and health sciences. References, links to people,
course syllabi and other features are all offered.
This link is to a
publication entitled “The
User Friendly Handbook for Mixed-Method Evaluations,” published by the US
National Science Foundation. The Handbook is intended to help principle investigators of
science-related educational programs use a mixed method approach for their program
evaluations:
This website of the Family Involvement Network of Educators will be
helpful for readers interested in learning more generally about research on family
involvement in education. The site features
research articles, syntheses, bibliographies and digests, as well as descriptions of
program models and promising practices from a variety of perspectives. Several of the
reports and applied tools draw on data from the School Transition Study, featured in this
chapter.
Weiss, H.,
Mayer, E., Kreider, H.,
Part VIII: Researching in Postmodern Contexts
Chapter 34 - Deconstruction as a
method of research
Additional
resources:
The Discourse Unit is an
interdisciplinary space that focuses its critical activity mainly on the discipline of
psychology, but which also includes researchers working on the intersection of politics
and subjectivity. The Discourse Unit
is currently located at
This site contains complete
texts of out-of-print books produced by Erica Burman and Ian Parker, co-founders of the
Discourse Unit. You can access these texts by clicking on the covers and then downloading
chapters. This includes the following books by Erica Burman: Discourse analytic research,
Feminists and psychological practice and The crisis in modern social psychology and how to
end it.
Abstract for the above
article:
Discourse analysis is a
qualitative research approach that offers the potential to challenge our thinking about
aspects of the reality of health and health care practice. In this article, the author
explores one approach to discourse analysis and examines how it offers possibilities for
different ways of viewing health and health care practices. She concludes by raising
questions as to whether discourse analysis is at the margins of qualitative research,
whether that matters, and where discourse analysis might take those margins.
An
example of a student's thesis in which poststructural analysis was used:
Price,
K 2000, 'Exploring
what the doing does: a poststructural analysis of nurses' subjectivity in relation to
pain', School of Nursing and Midwifery, PhD thesis,
Chapter 37 - From Structuralism to
Post-Structuralism
Additional resources:
The practical research of
Whalley and Miller tends to engage in the singular, ephemeral art-work, a mode which
raises questions about the dissemination of research material. In an attempt to address
this, Whalley and Miller have developed a web-site which houses documentary accounts of
their practical outcomes, as well as being home to a virtual performance piece entitled We
Will Remember You. www.dogshelf.com
Chapter 39 - Social
Science Research in Virtual Realities
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