Transforming qualitative data : description, analysis, and interpretation /
Harry F. Wolcott.
- 433 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Something Old, Something New -- Description, Analysis, and Interpretation in Qualitative Inquiry -- Emphasis on Description -- Adequate Schools and Inadequate Education: The Life History of a Sneaky Kid -- The Elementary School Principal: Notes From a Field Study -- Confessions of a "Trained" Observer -- Emphasis on Analysis -- A Malay Village That Progress Chose: Sungai Lui and the Institute of Cultural Affairs -- Life's Not Working: Cultural Alternatives to Career Alternatives -- Emphasis on Interpretation -- The Teacher as an Enemy -- Afterword, 1989: A Kwakiutl Village and School 25 Years Later -- The Acquisition of Culture: Notes on a Working Paper -- On Seeking - and Rejecting - Validity in Qualitative Research -- Teaching and Learning Qualitative Inquiry -- Teaching Qualitative Inquiry -- Learning Quantitative Inquiry -- Some Power of Reasoning, Much Aided -- Appendix: Qualitative Dissertations Completed by the Author's Doctoral Advisees -- Select Bibliography -- About the Author. 1. 2. Pt. I. 3. 4. 5. Pt. II. 6. 7. Pt. III. 8. 9. 10. 11. Pt. IV. 12. 13. 14.