Table of Contents

VOLUME ONE: THEORETICAL ORIGINS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS IN EDUCATION
Part A: Theoretical Tributaries from Anthropology, Sociology and Social Psychology
Thick Description: Towards an interpretive theory of culture - Clifford Geertz
Extracts from Symbolic Interactionism: perspective and method - Herbert Blumer
Extracts from Collected Papers 1: The problems of social reality - Alfred Schutz
Extracts from Studies in Ethnomethodology - Harold Garfinkel
Extracts from The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life - Erving Goffman
Part B: Case Study, Ethnography and Evaluation
Extracts from Boys in White: Student culture in medical school - Howard Becker, Blanche Geer, Everett Hughes and Anselm Strauss
Extracts from The Man in the Principal′s Office - Harry Wolcott
Structuring School Structure - Hugh Mehan
Extracts from Social Relations in a Secondary School - David Hargreaves
Extracts from ′Problems of Sociological Fieldwork: A review of the methodology of Hightown Grammar′ - Colin Lacey
Extracts from Beachside Comprehensive - Stephen Ball
The Countenance of Educational Evaluation - Robert Stake
Evaluation and the Control of Education - Barry MacDonald
The Conduct of Educational Case Study: Ethics, theory and procedures - Rob Walker
The Study Method in Social Inquiry - Robert Stake
The Imagination of the Case and the Invention of the Study - Stephen Kemmis
Evaluation as Illumination: A new approach to the study of innovatory programmes - Malcolm Parlett and David Hamilton
The Teacher as Researcher - Lawrence Stenhouse
Extracts from Fourth Generation Evaluation - Egon Guba and Yvonna Lincoln
The Deliberative Democratic View - Ernest House and Kenneth Howe
Qualitative Research Traditions: A review - Evelyn Jacob
Qualitative Research Traditions: A British response to Jacob - Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont and Martyn Hammersley
Critical Ethnography in Education: Origins, current status and new directions - Gary Anderson
VOLUME TWO: LANGUAGE, PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS - ADDITIONAL THEORETICAL TRIBUTARIES AND METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN EDUCATION
Part A: Other Contributory Social Scientific Traditions
Extracts from Class, Codes and Control - Basil Bernstein
Extracts from ′The Forms of Capital′ - Pierre Bourdieu
Extracts from ′An Approach to the Study of Curricula as Socially Organised Knowledge′ - Michael Young
Feminisms and Education - Gaby Weiner
Extracts from Common Knowledge: The development of understanding in the classroom - Derek Edwards and Neil Mercer
Text and Discourse in Education: An introduction to critical discourse analysis - Allan Luke
Thinking and Learning in Social Context - Barbara Rogoff
Extracts from Situated Learning: Legitimate peripheral participation - Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger
Extracts from Discourse and Cognition - Derek Edwards
Beyond Developmentalism - Valerie Walkerdine
Part B: Developing the Political, Ethical, Epistemological and Emancipatory Implications of Qualitative Approaches
Extracts from Action Research for Educational Change - John Elliott
Research as Praxis - Patti Lather
Post-Structural Feminism in Education: An overview - Elizabeth Adams St.Pierre
The Problem of Speaking for Others - Linda Alcoff
Transformative Approaches to Student Voice: Theoretical underpinnings, recalcitrant realities - Michael Fielding
Silence Speaks: Whiteness revealed in the absence of voice - Lisa Mazzei
Disability Research and the ′Researcher Template′: Reflections on grounded subjectivity in ethnographic research - Dan Goodley
Gazing with Intent: Ethnographic practice in classrooms - Tuula Gordon et al
What′s Race Got to Do with It? Critical Race Theory′s conflicts with and connections to qualitative research methodology and epistemology - Laurence Parker and Marvin Lynn
Writing the ′Wrongs′ of Fieldwork: Confronting our own research writing dilemmas in urban ethnographies - Michelle Fine and Lois Weis
On Tricky Ground: Researching the native in the age of uncertainty - Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Rhizovocality - Alecia Youngblood Jackson
Extracts from Performance Ethnography: Critical pedagogy and the politics of culture - Norman Denzin
The Bone in the Throat: Some uncertain thoughts on baroque method - Maggie MacLure
VOLUME THREE: KEY SUBSTANTIVE FIELDS AND TOPICS OF INQUIRY IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN EDUCATION
Part A: Social Scientific Topics and Issues
Extracts from Life in Classrooms - Philip Jackson
A Model of Classroom Coping Strategies - Andrew Pollard
Coping at School through Humour - Peter Woods
Extracts from Learning to Labour: How working class kids get working class jobs - Paul Willis
Deadlier than the Male? Girls′ conformity and deviance in school - Lewes Davies
Cherokee School Society and the Intercultural Classroom - Robert Dumont and Murray Wax
Empowerment and Cultural Conflict: Navajo parents and the schooling of their children - Donna Deyhle
The Silenced Dialogue: Power and pedagogy in educating other people′s children - Lisa Delpit
Beyond the White Norm: The use of qualitative methods in the study of black youth′s schooling in England - Mairtin Mac an Ghaill
Flexible Identities: Exploring race and gender issues among a group of immigrant pupils in an inner-city comprehensive school - Naz Rassool
Who is ′Us′? Students negotiating discourses of racism and national indentification in Australia - Julie McLeod and Lyn Yates
I Don′t Need This: Acts of transgression by students with special educational needs - Julie Allan
Sex-Gender-Sexuality: How sex, gender and sexuality constellations are constituted in secondary school - Deborah Youdell
Becoming Schoolgirls: The ambivalent project of subjectification - Bronwyn Davies et al
The Question of Belief: Writing post-structural ethnography - Deborah Britzman
Part B: Investigating Education Policy and Practice
Extracts from The Man in the Principal′s Office - Harry Wolcott
The Reconstruction of Primary Teachers′ Identities - Peter Woods and Bob Jeffrey
Good School/Bad School: Paradox and fabrication - Stephen Ball
"I′ll be a Nothing": Structure, agency and the construction of identity through assessment - Diane Reay and Dylan Wiliam
Extracts from High Stakes Education - Pauline Lipman
Investigating Formative Classroom Assessment - Harry Torrance and John Pryor
Education Change over Time? The sustainability and nonsustainability of three decades of secondary school change and continuity - Andy Hargreaves and Ivor Goodson
VOLUME FOUR: CONTEMPORARY METHODS, ISSUES AND DEBATES IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN EDUCATION - ETHICS, SCIENCE, POLICY AND POLITICS
Extracts from Action Research: A methodology for change and development - Bridget Somekh
Representing Teachers - Ivor Goodson
Storying Schools: Issues around attempts to create a sense of feel and place in narrative research writing - Pat Sikes
Visual Methods and the Visual Culture of Schools - Jon Prosser
Multimodal Ethnography - Bella Dicks et al
Ethnography and Data Re-use: Issues of context and hypertext - Bella Dicks et al
Multiple Methods in Qualitative Research with Children: More insight or just more? - Philip Darbyshire, Colin MacDougal and Wendy Schiller
Developing an Emancipatory Research Agenda: Possibilities and dilemmas - Len Barton
Ethics, Institutional Review Boards and the Changing Face of Educational Research - Kenneth Howe and Katharine Dougherty
Qualitative Research and Institutional Review Boards - Yvonna Lincoln and William Tierney
Ethics and Ethnography - Paul Atkinson
Research Ethical Guidelines and Anonymity - Geoffrey Walford
Rethinking Ethics Review as Institutional Discourse - Christine Halse and Anne Honey
′Caught in the Act′: Ethics committee review and researching the sexual culture of schools - Louisa Allen
′Reading′ the Nursery Classroom: A Foucauldian perspective - Liz Jones and Tony Brown
Deterritorializations: Putting postmodernism to work on teacher education and inclusion - Julie Allan
Beyond ′Emotional Literacy′ in Feminist and Educational Research - Erica Burman
Scientific Culture and Educational Research - Michael Feuer, Lisa Towne and Richard Shavelson
Culture, Rigor and Science in Educational Research - Frederick Erickson and Kris Gutierrez
This IS your Father′s Paradigm: Government intrusion and the case of qualitative research in education - Patti Lather
The Issue of Quality in Qualitative Research - Martyn Hammersley
Systematic Research Synthesis to Inform Policy, Practice and Democratic Debate - David Gough and Diana Elbourne
′Clarity Bordering on Stupidity′: Where′s the quality in systematic review? - Maggie MacLure
Synthesis Through Meta-Ethnography: Paradoxes, enhancements and possibilities - Lynn Doyle
How Can Systematic Reviews Incorporate Qualitative Research? A critical perspective - Mary Dixon-Woods et al
Building Confidence in Qualitative Research: Engaging the demands of policy - Harry Torrance

Reviews

′Torrance offers the field a rich and expansive set of readings. His intervention is bold in its claims, conservative in its approach. It will most certainly serve its readers well-new as well as seasoned researchers and scholars. It will also call up new audiences, at the intersections between education and qualitative research′ - Greg Dimitriadis, University of Buffalo, SUNY