Theory and concepts in qualitative research : perspectives from the field

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Theory and concepts in qualitative research : perspectives from the field / edited by David J. Flinders and Geoffrey E. Mills ; foreword by Elliot W. Eisner.

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Theory for the moral sciences: crisis of identity and purpose / Thomas A. Schwandt -- The role of theory in qualitative program evaluation / Jennifer C. Greene -- From practice to theory to practice: the roles of theory in research on standardized testing / Sandra Mathison -- The quest for emergent meaning: a personal account / Stephen J. Thornton -- Theory as research guide: a qualitative look at qualitative inquiry / Joyce L. Henstrand -- Levels of abstraction in a case study of educational change / Geoffrey E. Mills -- From theory and concepts to educational connoisseurship / David J. Flinders -- Notes toward theory in biography: working on the Nora Barlow papers / Louis M. Smith.

Socially responsive educational research: linking theory and practice / Ernest T. Stringer -- Continuing dilemmas of life history research: a reflexive account of feminist qualitative inquiry / Petra Munro -- Hermeneutics and qualitative inquiry / John K. Smith -- The rhetorical return: the rhetoric of qualitative inquiry / Henry St. Maurice -- Theory: the necessary evil / Howard S. Becker.