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Shifting Priorities: Reflections On Teaching Qualitative Research Methods, Keonya C. Booker
Shifting Priorities: Reflections On Teaching Qualitative Research Methods, Keonya C. Booker
The Qualitative Report
The purpose of this paper is to describe pedagogical approaches to qualitative methodology by an instructor of educational psychology at a large research university. The essay begins with an overview of how my graduate training influenced my orientation to empirical study. Next, I will focus on the obstacles encountered when instructing graduate students who are currently practicing school teachers, counselors, and administrators. Specifically, I will detail how I approach teaching qualitative research methods, ways I deal with resistance from students, and methods for introducing apprehensive learners to the ways of interpretist design. Finally, I conclude with a discussion of how …
Teaching Qualitative Research Teachers About Teaching Qualitative Research, Ronald J. Chenail
Teaching Qualitative Research Teachers About Teaching Qualitative Research, Ronald J. Chenail
The Qualitative Report
Rosalind Hurworth’s (2008) new book, Teaching Qualitative Research: Cases and Issues, presents its readers with a well-researched and detailed account of contemporary qualitative research education. Based upon her extensive review of the literature and field work observing faculty members and students in a variety of classroom settings, Hurworth shares the lessons she learned from this investigation and offers readers a long list of ways we can improve how we help our students and ourselves to learn qualitative research.