A teacher and a researcher provide alternate interpretations of the teaching and learning that occurred in an adult English-as-a-Second-Language classroom. They conclude that mutual collaboration must include all phases of a research project. (SK)

Describes the history and current status of qualitative research in science education research. Discusses the issue of the quality of research. (JRH)

Explores the potential for mathematics instruction of four reading strategies grounded in transactional reading theory. Illustrates how encouraging mathematics students to talk, write, draw, and enact texts can provide them with concrete ways to construct and negotiate interpretations of what they read. Contains 41 references. (Author/ASK)

This article explores methodological issues arising from a research project that involved six people with learning difficulties in researching aspects of their own lives. These included how participants were included in data analysis and the researcher's role. It stresses the importance of the researcher listening to participants, taking time to…

Considers the potential for teacher research to change ideas about who is responsible for producing knowledge, the benefits and dangers of inserting the self into the social sciences, and the challenges of presenting problems of practice from within practice. (Author/SK)

This qualitative study of life management in 15 families of children with various disability characteristics and ages identified effective life management strategies (e.g., positive personal reframing), positive parent characteristics (e.g., decision-making ability), and parents' experiences of positive transformational outcomes in personal,…

A two-course sequence for teaching qualitative research to doctoral nursing students benefitted from the following elements: co-teaching, small group projects, and the building of research skills in the first semester. (SK)

Proposes a framework for characterizing evaluation approaches that consists of the following aspects: context, purpose and social role, phenomena of interest, procedural rules, methods of justification, and sanctions. Illustrates the framework through its application to the debate over the theory and practice of empowerment evaluation. (SLD)

Describes a qualitative study that investigated middle school teachers' perspectives of their use of instructional technology, understanding of the technology, and feelings about the support structure associated with the equipment. Findings suggest that teachers feel technology is an integral part of education and they see a need for integrating…

Discusses the role that experiential therapy methods can play in qualitative family assessment. It is believed that these methods can be quite helpful in engaging families in a collaborative evaluation process. The advantages of qualitative assessment are presented as a complement to more quantitative family evaluation measures. (BF)

A study of traditional mentor relationships in the lives of 35 creative people used a hermeneutic (interpretive) approach. Findings suggested that the mentoring process remains the same at whatever age mentoring occurs; that mentors can help latent creativity to flourish at any age; and that those who have experienced mentor relationships go on to…

Professional identity is a term used to describe both the collective identity of a profession and an individual's own sense of the professional role. This article draws from the literature exploring professional identity with attention to the issues of developing professional identity in fields such as art therapy where lower wages, fewer jobs,…

The purpose of this article is to critically examine some stated discrepancies between qualitative and quantitative research by taking actual studies as a starting point. It is argued that in ordinary empirical research within psychology and education, both approaches should be considered based on critical realism, and that the ordinary validity…

Qualitative research is inquiry aimed at describing and clarifying human experience as it appears in people's lives. Researchers using qualitative methods gather data that serve as evidence for their distilled descriptions. Qualitative data are gathered primarily in the form of spoken or written language rather than in the form of numbers.…

In this article, the author presents an overview of the qualitative research approach termed grounded theory (B. G. Glaser, 1978, 1992; B. G. Glaser & A. L. Strauss, 1967; A. L. Strauss, 1987; A. L. Strauss & J. Corbin, 1990, 1998). The author first locates the method conceptually and paradigmatically (paradigms) and then outlines the procedures…