Lifelong Education Administration and Policy

Qualitative Research

Bibliographies

Theoretical Frameworks
Symbolic Interactionism
Hermeneutics
Phenomenology
Ethnomethodology and Conversation analysis
Critical Theory and Action Research
Feminist Theory
Poststructuralism
Postmodern Theory
Postcolonial Theory
More on methodology, methods, analysis
Discourse analysis
Ethnography
Interviews
Focus Group Interviews
Life History/Autobiography
Narrative Analysis
Qualitative Evaluation
Grounded theory

Theoretical Frameworks

Symbolic Interactionism

Blumer, H. (1969). Symbolic interactionism: Perspective and method. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Blumer, H. (1980). Mead and Blumer: The convergent methodological perspectives of social behaviourism and symbolic interactionism. American Sociological Review, 45, 409-419.

Denzin, N. (1992). Symbolic interactionism and cultural studies. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Joas, H. (1987).Symbolic interactionism. In A. Giddens & J. Turner (eds.), Social theory today (pp. 82-115). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Meltzer, B. N., Petras, J. W., & Reynolds, L. T. (1975). Symbolic interactionism: Genesis, varieties and criticism. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Plummer, K. (ed.). (1991). Symbolic interactionism: Vols 1 & 2. Classic and contemporary issues. Hauts, England: Edward Elgar.

Rock, P. (2001). Symbolic interactionism and ethnography. In P. Atkinson & A. Coffey & S. Delamont & J. Lofland & L. Lofland (Eds.), Handbook of ethnography (pp. 26-38). London: Sage.

Hermeneutics

Bauman, Z. (1978). Hermeneutics and the social science. London: Hutchinson.

Bleicher, J. (1980). Contemporary hermeneutics: Hermeneutics as method, philosophy and critique. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Gadamer, H. (1976). Philosophical hermeneutics. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Madison, G. B. (1988). The hermeneutics of postmodernity. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Ricoeur, P. (1981). Hermeneutics and the human sciences. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Wachterhauser, B. R. (ed.). (1986). Hermeneutics and modern philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Phenomenology

Dagenais, J. J. (1972). Models of man: A phenomenological critique of some paradigms in the human sciences. The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff.

Giorgi, A. (1985). Phenomenology and psychological research. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press.

Giorgi, A. (1970). Psychology as a human science: A phenomenology-based approach. New York: Harper & Row.

Heap, J. L. (1991). "Ethnomethodology, cultural phenomenology, and literacy activities." Curriculum Inquiry2(1): 109-117.

Holstein, J. A. and J. F. Gubrium (1998). Phenomenology, ethnomethodology, and interpretive practice. Strategies of qualitative inquiry. N. K. Denzin and Y. S. Lincoln. Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage: 137-157.

Kvale, S. (1983). The qualitative research interview: A phenomenological and a hermeneutical mode of understanding. Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 14(2), 171-196.

Melrose, L. (1989). The creative personality and the creative process: A phenomenological perspective. Lanham, MD, University Press of America.

Moustakas, C. (1994). Phenomenological research methods. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Oiler, C. (1982). "The phenomenological approach in nursing research." Nursing Research31: 178-181.

Thompson, C. J., W. B. Locander, et al. (1989). "Putting consumer experience back into consumer research: The philosophy and method of existential phenomenology." Journal of Consumer Research16(2): 133-146.

van Manen, M. (1990). Research lived experience: Human science for an action sensitive pedagogy. London, Ontario, State University of New York Press.

Ethnomethodology and Conversation analysis

Atkinson, J. M., & Heritage, J. (1984). Structures of social action: Studies in conversation analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Garfinkel, H. (1967). Studies in ethnomethodology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice- Hall.

Goodwin, C., & Heritage, J. (1990). Conversation Analysis. Annual Review of Anthropology, 19, 283-307.

Heritage, J. (1984). Garfinkel and ethnomethodology. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Heritage, J. (1997) Conversation analysis and institutional talk: Analysing data, in D. Silverman (Ed.) Qualitative research: Theory, method and practice (pp. 161-182) London: Sage.

Hutchby, I., & Wooffitt, R. (1998). Conversation analysis: Principles, practices and applications. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.

Lepper, G. (2000). Categories in text and talk: A practical introduction to categorization analysis. London: Sage.

Pomerantz, A., & Fehr, B. J. (1997). Conversation analysis: An approach to the study of social action as sense making practices. In T. A. van Dijk (Ed.), Discourse as social interaction (pp. 64-91). London: Sage.

Psathas, G. (1995). Conversation analysis: The study of talk-in-interaction. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Sacks, H. (1992). Lectures on conversation. Edited by Gail Jefferson. Oxford, UK & Cambridge, USA: Blackwell.

Sacks, H., Schegloff, E., & Jefferson, G. (1978). A simplest systematics for the organization of turn taking for conversation. In J.N. Schenkein (Ed.), Studies in the organization of conversational interaction. (pp. 7-55). (Originally published 1974). New York: Academic Press.

Silverman, D. (1998). Harvey Sacks: Social science and conversation analysis. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.

ten Have, P. (1999). Doing conversation analysis: A practical guide. London: Sage.

Critical Theory and Action Research

Freire, P. (1990). Pedagogy of the oppressed. London: Pelican.

Gaventa, J. (1988). Participatory research in North America. Convergence, 21(2/3), 19-28.

Geuss, R. (1981). The idea of critical theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School. Cambridge University Press.

Gibson, R. (1986). Critical theory and education. London: Hodder & Stroughton.

Giroux, H. (1988). Critical theory and the politics of culture and voice: Rethinking the discourse of educational research. In R. Sherman & R. Webb (eds.). Qualitative research in education: Focus and methods (pp. 190-210). New York: Falmer.

Held, D. (1980). An introduction to critical theory: Horkheimer to Habermas. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Horkheimer, M. (1972). Critical theory. New York: Seabury.

Kellner, D. (1989). Critical theory, Marxism and modernity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

McCarthy, T. (1978). The critical theory of Jurgen Habermas. MIT Press.

Nyden, P., Figert, A., Shibley, M., & Burrows, D. (Eds.). (1997). Building community: Social science in action. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.

Reason, P., & Bradbury, H. (Eds.). (2001). Handbook of action research: Participative inquiry and practice. London: Sage.

Roderick, R. (1986). Habermas and the foundations of critical theory. Macmillan.

Wexler, P. (ed.). (1991). Critical theory now. New York: Falmer.

Whyte, W. F. (Ed.). (1991). Participatory action research. Newbury Park: Sage.

Feminist Theory

Belenky, M. F., Clincy, B. M., Goldberger, N. R., & Tarule, J. M. (1986). Womenís ways of knowing: The development of self, voice and mind. New York: Basic Books.

Brooks, A. (1997). Post-feminisms/feminism, cultural theory and cultural forms. London: Routledge.

De Beauvoir, S. (1972). The second sex. London: Penguin Books.

Ellsworth, E. (1989). Why doesnít this feel empowering? Working through the repressive myths of critical pedagogy. Harvard Educational Review, 59(3) 297-324.

Gilligan, C. (1982). In a different voice: Psychological theory and women and development. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Giroux, H. (ed.). (1991). Postmodernism, feminism, and cultural politics. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Gore, J. (1993). The struggle for pedagogies, critical and feminist discourses as regimes of truth. London: Routledge.

Gunew, S. (ed.). (1990). A reader in feminist knowledge. London: Routledge.

Haraway, D. (1988). Situated knowledge: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective. Feminist Studies, 14 (3), 575-599.

Haraway, D. (1991). A cyborg manifesto: Science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century. In Simians, cybors, and women: The reinvention of nature (pp. 149-181). New York: Routledge.

Harding, S. (ed.) (1987). Feminism and methodology: Social science issues. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Harding, S. (1991). Whose science? Whose knowledge? Thinking from womenís lives. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Hooks, B. (1984). Feminist theory: From margins to centre. Boston, USA: South End Press.

Lather, P. (1991). Getting smart, feminist research and pedagogy with/in the postmodern. London: Routledge.

Luke, C. & Gore, J. (eds.). (1992). Feminisms and critical pedagogy. New York: Routledge.

Nicholson, L. J. (ed.). (1990). Feminism/postmodermism. London: Routledge.

Oakley, A. (19810). Interviewing women: A contradiction in terms. In H. Roberts (ed.)., Doing feminist research (pp. 30-61). London: Routledge.

Reinharz, S. (1992). Feminist methods in social research. New York: Oxford University Press.

Roberts, H. (ed.). (1983). Doing feminist research. London: Routledge Kegan Paul.

Smith, D. E. (1987). The everyday world as problematic. Boston: Northeastern University Press.

Stanley, L. & Wise, S. (1983). Breaking out Feminist consciousness and feminist research. London: Routledge Kegan Paul.

St. Pierre, E. A. (2000). Poststructural feminism in education: An overview. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 13(5), 477-515.

Tong, R. (1998). Feminist thought: A more comprehensive introduction. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Weiner, G. (1994). Feminisms in education. Philadelphia: Open University Press.

Poststructuralism

Butler, J. (1990). Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity. New York: Routledge.

Butler, J. & Scott, J. (eds.). (1992). Feminists theorize the political. New York: Routledge.

Holmes, C. (1988). Power and criticism: Poststructural investigations in education. New York: Teachers College Press.

Davies, B. (1993). Shards of glass: Children reading and writing beyond gendered identities. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Flax, J. (1990). Thinking fragments: Psychoanalysis, feminism, and postmodernism in the contemporary west. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Fuss, D. (1989). Essentially speaking: Feminist, nature and difference. New York: Routledge.

Grosz, E. (1994). Volatile bodies: Toward a corporeal feminism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Peters, M. (1996). Poststructuralism, politics, and education. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey.

Sarup, M. (1993). An introductory guide to poststructuralism and postmodernism. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.

Weedon, C. (1987). Feminist practice and poststructuralist theory. London: Basil Blackwell.

Postmodern Theory

Anderson, W. T. (1997). The future of self: Inventing the postmodern person. New York, Jeremy P. Tarcher.

Anderson, W. T. (ed.). (1995). The truth about the truth: De-confusing and re-constructing the postmodern world. New York, Jeremy P. Tarcher.

Baudrillard, J. (1988). Selected writings. Polity Press.

Bennington, G. & Derrida, J. (1993). Jacques Derrida. University of Chicago Press.

Best, S. and D. Kellner (1991). Postmodern theory: Critical interrogations. New York, Guildford Press.

Best, S., & Kellner, D. (1997). The postmodern turn. New York and London: The Guildford Press.

Culler, J. (1982). On deconstruction. Routledge.

Eco, U. (1984). Postscript to the name of the rose. New York and London, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Haraway, D. (1991). A cyborg manifesto: Science, technology, and socialist formation in the late Twentieth Century. In: Simians, cyborgs and women: The reinvention of nature. New York, Routledge.

Harvey, D. (1990). The condition of postmodernity. Oxford, Blackwell.

Hassan, I. (1982). The dismemberment of Orpheus: Towards a postmodern literature. New York, Oxford University Press.

Hollinger, R. (1994). Postmodernism and the social sciences.

Jameson, F. (1984). "Postmodernism: or the cultural logic of late capitalism." New Left Review 146: 53-92.

Jameson, F. (1985). Postmodernism and consumer society. In: Postmodern culture. H. Foster (ed.). London and Sydney.

Kellner, D. (1989). Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to postmodernism and beyond. Stanford University Press.

Lyotard, J. F. (1984). The postmodern condition. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press.

Swichtenberg, C. (1993). Madonna's postmodern feminism. In: The Madonna connection. C. Schwichtenberg (ed.). Boulder, CO, Westview Press.

See also the writings of Foucault; Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari; Baudrillard

Postcolonial Theory

Ashcroft, B., G. Griffith, et al., Eds. (1995).The post-colonial studies reader. London and New York, Routledge.

Bhabha, H. (1988). Third space: An interview with HomiBhaba. Identity: Community, culture, difference. J. Rutherford. London,Lawrence and Wishart:207-221.

Bhabha, H. K. (1994).Thelocation of culture.London, Routledge.

Bhabha, H. K. (1996).POSTMODERNISM/postcolonialism.Critical terms for art history.R. S.Nelson and R. Schiff. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Gandhi, L.(1998).Postcolonial theory: A critical introduction.St Leonards, Allen&Unwin.

Guha, R. and G. C. Spivak, Eds. (1988).Selectedsubaltern studies. New York, Oxford University Press.

JanMohamed, A.R. (1990).The nature and context of minority discourse. New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Lawson, A. and H. Tiffin, Eds. (1994).Describing empire: Postcolonialism and textuality. London, Routledge.

Mongia, P. (1996).Contemporary postcolonial theory. London, Arnold.

Moore-Gilbert, B. (1997).Postcolonial theory:Contexts, practices, politics. London, Verso.

Soja, E. W. (1996).Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and other real-and-imagined places. Cambridge, MA, Blackwell Publishers.

Spivak, G. (1987).In other worlds: Essays in cultural politics. New York, Methuen.

Spivak, G.(1988). Can the subaltern speak? Marxist interpretations of culture. C.N. L. Grossberg. Basingstoke, Macmillan Education:271-313.

Spivak, G. C. (1990).The post-colonial critic: Interviews, strategies, dialogues. New York & London, Routledge.

More on methodology, methods, analysis

Discourse analysis

Coulthard, M. (1977).An introduction to discourse analysis .London, Longman.

Fairclough, N. (1989).Language and power. London, Longman.

Fairclough, N. (1992). "Discourse and text: Linguistic and intertextual analysis within discourse analysis. "Discourse and Society3(2): 193-218.

Fairclough, N. (1995).Critical discourse analysis: The critical study of language. London and New York, Longman.

Gee, J. P. (1996).Social linguistics and literacies: Ideology in discourses. London, Falmer.

Gee, J. P. (1999).An introduction to discourse analysis. London and New York, Routledge.

Janks, H. (1997). "Critical discourse analysis as a research tool. "Discourse: Studies in the cultural politics of education18(3): 329-342.

Jaworski, A. and N. Coupland, Eds. (1999).The discourse reader. London and New York, Routledge.

Kamler, B., B. Comber, et al. (1997). "Introduction: Critical discourse analysis, or life afterthe linguistic turn. "Discourse: Studies in the cultural politics ofeducation18(3): 325-327.

Luke, A. (1995). "Text and discourse in education: An introduction to critical discourse analysis. "Review of Research in Education21: 3-48.

Luke, A. (1998). Critical discourse analysis. International encylopedia of sociology of education. L. Saha. New York, Elsevier:50-57.

van Dijk, T., Ed. (1997).Discourse as social interaction. Discourse studies: A multidisciplinary introduction. London, Sage.

Ethnography

Atkinson, P. (1990).The ethnographic imagination: Textual construction of reality. New York, Routledge.

Atkinson, P., Coffey, A., Delamont, S., Lofland, J.,&Lofland, L. (Eds.). (2001).Handbook of ethnography. London: Sage.

Clifford, J. and G. Marcus, Eds. (1986).Writing culture: The poetics and politics of ethnography. Berkeley, University of California Press.

Erickson, F. (1986). Qualitative methods in research on teaching. Handbook of research on teaching. M. C. Wittrock. New York, Macmillan: 119-161.

Garbarino, M. S. (1977).Sociocultural theory in anthropology: A short history. Prospect Heights, IL, WavelandPress.

Hammersley, M., & P. Atkinson (1995).Ethnography: Principles in practice .London, Routledge.

Marcus, G. E. and M. J. Fischer(1986).Anthropology as cultural critique: An experimental moment in the human sciences. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Pelto, P. J., & Pelto, G.H. (1978).Anthropological research: The structure of inquiry. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press.

Powdermaker, H.(1966).Stranger and friend: The way of an anthropologist. New York,Norton.

Sanjek, R., Ed. (1990).Fieldnotes: The makings of anthropology Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press.

Sherman, R. R., & Webb, R.B. (Eds.) (1988). Qualitative research in education: Focus and methods. Explorations in Ethnography. London, The FalmerPress.

Spindler, G. D. (1987).Education and cultural process: Anthropological approaches. Prospect Heights, IL, Waveland.

Spradley,J. P. (1980).Participant observation. New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

Van Maanen, J. (1988).Tales of the field: On writing ethnography. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Warren, C. A. B.(1988).Gender issues in field research. Beverley Hill, CA, Sage.

Wax, R. H. (1971).Doing fieldwork: Warning and advice.Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Whyte, W. F. (1984).Learning from the field: A guide from experience. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Wolcott, H. (1999).Ethnography: A way of seeing. WalnutCreek: AltaMira Press.

Wolcott, H. (1995).The art of fieldwork.Walnut Creek, Altamira Press.

Woolgar, S. (1988). Reflexivity is the ethnographer of the text. Knowledge and reflexivity. S. Woolgar, London, Sage:14-34.

Interviews

Brenner, M., J. Brown, et al., Eds.(1985).The research interview: Uses and approaches. New York, AcademicPress.

Briggs, C. (1986).Learning how to ask: A sociolinguisticappraisal of the role of the interview in social science research. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press.

Carin, A., & Sund, R.B. (1978).Creative questioning and sensitive listening techniques: A self-concept approach. Columbus, OH, Merrill.

Douglas, J. D. (1985).Creative interviewing. Beverly Hills, CA, Sage.

Foddy, W. (1993).Constructing questions for interviews and questionnaires: Theory and practice in social research. Cambridge UK: Cambridge UniversityPress.

Gubrium, J., & Holstein, J. A. (Eds.). (2002).Handbook ofinterview research. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Holstein, J. A., & Gubrium, J., F. (1995).The active interview(Vol. 37). Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Kvale, S. (1996).InterViews: An introduction to qualitative research interviewing. Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage.

McCracken, G. (1988).The long interview. Beverley Hill, CA, Sage.

Mishler, E. (1986).Research interviewing: Context and narrative. Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press.

Siedman, I. E. (1991).Interviewing as qualitative research: A guide for researchers in education and the social sciences. New York, Teachers College Press.

Sudman, S. and N. M. Bradburn (1989).Asking questions: A practical guide to questions of design. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Focus Group Interviews

Goldman, A. and S. McDonald (1987).The group depth interview: Principles and practice. New York: Prentice Hall.

Greenbaum, T. (1993).The handbook of focus group research. New York, Lexington.

Krueger, R. A., & Casey, M. A. (2000).Focus groups: A practical guide for applied research. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Merton, R. K., Fiske, M. et al. (1990).The focused interview: A manual of problems and procedures, The Free Press.

Morgan, D. L., & Krueger, R. A. (1998).The focus group kit. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Morgan, D. L. (1988).Focus groups as qualitative research. Newbury Park, CA, Sage.

Morgan, D. L. (1993).Successful focus groups: Advancing the state of the art. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Life History/Autobiography

Ball, S. and I. Goodson(1985).Teachers' lives and career. London, Falmer Press.

Becker,H. S. (1970). The relevance of life histories. Sociological methods: A sourcebook. N. Denzin. New York, McGraw Hill: 289-296.

Botkin, B. A., Ed. (1954).Lay my burden down: A folk history of slavery. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Brady, E. M. (1990). "Redeemed from time: Learning through autobiography. "Adult Education Quarterly41(1): 43-52.

Cole, A. L., & Knowles, J. G. (Eds.). (2001).Lives in context: The art of life history research. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press.

Dollard, J. (1935).Criteria for the life history with analyses of six notable documents. New Have, Yale University Press.

Faraday, A., & Plummer, K. (1979). "Doing life histories. "Sociological Review27(4): 773-789.

Goodson, I. (1980/81).Life histories and the study of schooling.

Goodson, I. F., & Walker, R. (1991).Biography, identity and schooling: Episodes in educational research. London: Falmer Press.

Hatch, J. A., & Wisniewski, R.W., Eds. (1995).Life history and narrative. London: Falmer Press.

King, J.R. (1991). "Collaborative life history narratives: Heroes in reading teachers 'tales. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 4: 45-60.

Langness, L. L., & Frank, G. (1981).Lives: An anthropological approach to biography. Novato, CA, Chandler and sharp.

Miller, R. L. (2000).Research life stories and family histories. London: Sage.

Mishler, E. G. (1979). Meaning in context: Is there any other kind? Harvard Educational Review49:1-19.

Morgan, G., & L. Smircich (1980). "The case for qualitative research ."Academy of Management Review5:491-500.

Moustakas, C. (1990).Heuristic research: Design, methodology, and applications. Newbury Park, CA, Sage.

O'Brien, S.(1991). Feminist theory and literary biography. Contesting the subject: Essays in the postmodern theory and practice of biography and biographicalcriticism. W. H. Epstein. West Lafayette, IN, Purdue University Press: 123-133.

Tierney, W., Ed. (1993).Naming silenced lives. Routledge.

Watson, L. C. (1976). "Understanding a life history as a subjective document: Hermeneutical and phenomenological perspectives."Ethos4(1): 95-131.

Watson, L. C. and M. B. Watson-Franke (1985).Interpreting life histories: An anthropological inquiry. NewBrunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press.

Weiler, K. (1992). "Remembering and representing life choices: A critical perspective on teachers' oral history narratives International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education5(1): 39-50.

NarrativeAnalysis

Barone, T. E. (1992). "Beyond theory and method: A case of critical storytelling. Theory into Practice 31(2):142-146.

Bruner, J. (1983).In search of mind: Essays in autobiography.New York, Harper and Row.

Bruner, J. (1985). Narrative and paradigmatic modes of thought .Learning and teaching ways of knowing. E. Eisner. Chicago, National Society for the Study of Education:97-115.

Bruner, J. (1986).Actual minds, possible worlds. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press.

Bruner, J. (1987). "Life as narrative. Social Research54: 11-32.

Carr, D. (1986).Time, narrative, and history. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press.

Carter, K. (1993). The place of story in the study of teaching and teacher education. Educational Researcher22(2):5-12.

Coles, R. (1989).The call of stories. Boston, Houghton Mifflin.

Connelly, F. M., & Clandinin, D.J. (1990). "Stories of experience and narrative inquiry. Educational Researcher19(4):2-14.

Clandinin, D. J., & Connelly, F. M. (2000).Narrative inquiry: Experience and story in qualitative research. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Cortazzi, M. (1993).Narrative analysis. London: Falmer Press.

Cronin, W. (1992). "A place for stories: Nature, history, and narrative."The Journal of American History(March):1347-1376.

Danto, A. (1985).Narration and knowledge .New York, Columbia University Press.

Geertz, C. (1983). Blurred genres: The refiguration of social thought. Local knowledge. C. Geertz. New York, Basic Books:19-35.

Geertz, C. (1988).Works and lives: The anthropologist as author. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press.

Gudmunsdottir, S. (1991). Story-maker, story-teller: Narrative structures in curriculum. Journal of Curriculum Studies23(3):207-218.

Hatch, J. A., & Wisniewski, R.W. Eds. (1995).Life history and narrative. London: Falmer Press.

Heilbrun, C. (1988).Writing a woman's life. New York, W. W. Norton.

Josselson, R., Ed. (1996).Ethics and process in the narrative study of lives. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Josselson, R., & Lieblich, A. Eds. (1993).The narrative study of lives. Newbury Park, CA, Sage.

Kramer, M. (1992). Stories we tell and retell: The role of narrative. ChangeJuly/August:51-52.

Kramp, M. K. and W. L. Humphreys (1993). Narrative, self-assessment, and the reflective learner. College Teaching41(3): 83-88.

Labov, W. (1972). The transformation of experience in narrative syntax.Language in the inner city.W. Labov. Philadelphia,University of Pennsylvania:352-396.

Leitch, T. (1986). What stories are: Narrative theory and interpretation. University Park, PA, Pennsylvania University Press.

Lewis, H. M. and S. O'Donnell (1990).Telling our stories: Sharing our lives. Ivanhoe, VA, The Ivanhoe Civic League.

Lieblich, A. and R. Josselson, Eds. (1994).Exploring identity and gender: The narrative study of lives. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Mattingly, C., & Garro, L. (1994). Special Issue. Social Science and Medicine38(6).

Mishler, E. (1986).Research interviewing: Context and narrative. Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press.

Mishler, E. (1999).Storylines: Craft artists narratives of identity. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press.

O'Gorman, F.. & Women from Rocinha and Santa Mara (1985).Hillside woman. San Paulo, Francisco Alves.

Ochberg, R. L. (1994). Life stories and storied lives. Exploring identity and gender: The narrative study of lives. A. Lieblichand R. Josselson. Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage: 113-144.

Polkinghorne, D. E. (1988).Narrative knowing and the human sciences. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Polkinghorne, D. E. (1995). Narrative configuration in qualitative analysis. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 8(1), 5-23.

Ricoeur, P. (1981). Narrative time. Critical Inquiry7: 165-186.

Ricoeur, P. (1984).Time and narrative. Chicago: University of ChicagoPress.

Riessman, C. K. (1993).Narrative analysis. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Sandelowski, M. (1991). Telling stories: Narrative approaches in qualitative research. Image: Journal of Nursing Scholarship23: 161-166.

Spence, D. P. (1982).Narrative truth and historical truth: Meaning and interpretation in pscyhoanalysis. New York, W.W. Norton.

Thomas, S. (1981). We didn't have much, but we sure had plenty: Rural women in their own words. New York, Anchor.

Vanderstaay, S. (1992).Street lives: An oral history of homeless American. Philadelphia, New Society Publishers.

Weiler, K.(1992). "Remembering and representing life choices: A critical perspective on teachers' oral history narratives. "International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education5(1): 39-50.

White, H. V. (1981).The concept of the form: Narrative discourse and historical representation. Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press.

Witherell, C., & Noddings, N. Eds. (1991).Stories lives tell: Narrative and dialogue in education. New York, Teachers College Press.

Qualitative Evaluation

Patton, M. Q. . (1990).Qualitative Evaluation and Research Methods.(2nd ed) Newbury Park: Sage.

Patton, Michael Quinn. (1987).How to use qualitative methods in evaluation. Newbury Park: Sage.

Shaw, I. F. (1999).Qualitative evaluation. London: Sage.

Grounded theory

Charmaz, K. (1983). The grounded theory method: An explication and interpretation. In R. M. Emerson (Ed.),Contemporary field research(pp. 109-126). Boston: LittleBrown.

Charmaz, K., & Mitchell, R. G. (2001). Grounded theory in ethnography. In P. Atkinson &A. Coffey &S. Delamont &J. Loflan d, & L. Lofland (Eds.),Handbook of ethnography(pp. 160-174). London: Sage.

Glaser, B. G., & Strauss, A. L. (1967).The discovery of grounded theory: Strategies for qualitative research .New York: Aldine deGruyter.

Strauss, A. L., & Corbin, J. (1990).Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Strauss, A. L., & Corbin, J. (Eds.). (1997).Grounded theory in practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Qualitative Research Resources

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