The qualitative dissertation : a guide for students and faculty /

Piantanida, Maria,

The qualitative dissertation : a guide for students and faculty / Maria Piantanida, Noreen B. Garman ; foreword by Frances Schoonmaker. - Second edition. - xxiv, 301 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-298) and index.

Coming to study -- On the deliberative nature of the dissertation -- Meanings of the dissertation -- Facing the dissertation -- Orienting oneself to interpretive inquiry -- Situating oneself in the inquiry -- Rethinking the concept of method -- Rethinking the concept of data -- Moving from the experiential to the theoretic -- Developing ideas for the dissertation proposal -- Crafting an interpretive dissertation proposal -- Proposing the dissertation study -- Living with the study -- Entering into public discourse? : the dissertation meeting -- Life after the dissertation.

1412951070 9781412951074 1412951089 9781412951081

2008042302


Dissertations, Academic.
Research--Methodology

LB2369 / .P48 2009

808.02

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