Doing Qualitative Community Research: Lessons for Faculty, Students and Communities

This text describes important considerations for conceptualizing, designing and carrying out qualitative research in community settings. The book covers various research aspects with respect to teaching, learning, practicing and assessing. Readers will gain insights into qualitative methodology as a vital stand-alone approach and find it to be an illuminating supplement to quantitative methodology and a core component of mixed methods studies. Some key questions answered by the book are: What's in it for us? What are collaborations and partnerships? How can knowledge and skills to achieve meaningful outcomes be acquired and applied? How can scientific rigor be achieved? What are the challenges and how can they be resolved? What is ethical? Whose voices and narratives should be portrayed? What is culturally competent qualitative research? Who and what determine assessments? Can qualitative research help sustain community? What happens when the project ends? How can research shape public policy? The e-book should serve as a useful guide for social science and community research students and teachers alike. 01 Title.pdf 02 Cover Page 03 REVISED eBooks End User License Agreement-Website 04 Content 05 Foreword 06 Preface 07 Acknowledgement 08 Chapter 01 09 Chapter 02 10 Chapter 03 11 Chapter 04 12 Chapter 05 13 Chapter 06 14 Chapter 07 15 Chapter 08 16 Chapter 09 17 Chapter 10 18 Chapter 11 19 Chapter 12 20 Appendix Qualitative Bibliographical Resources 21 Qualitative Research Journals 22 Examples of Electronic Qualitative Resources 23 Index