the course schedule for ed 714

Ed 714 Qualitative Research Methods in Education

Course Schedule Summer 2006

This calendar contains most links needed to complete readings and prepare assignments.

Dates, Topics are listed first.
The Scenario is a case vignette that establishes the context for each week's activities. When you read each scenario think ahead. Each scenario raises issues and questions that you should use to focus your reading of Internet selections.
Internet readings link you to sites on the Internet where reading materials for the week are located. Use these readings to answer questions that were raised in the scenarios and to develop fundamental knowledge of vocabulary and concepts.
Course notes link to lecture outlines that I will use each week. Once you have read the Internet selections, try to make connections with the course notes.

I will be adding many more links to the Internet each week. So stay tuned. These are extremely valuable resources for your work

The deliberative question will appear whenever you go online. It will be the question that calls for a response from you, written as an essay. Your essays should be posed at the following location link to your electronic forum on yahoo
for Tuesday night: http://group.yahoo.com/group/qualrestue

for Wednesday night: http://group.yahoo.com/group/qualreswed
Week 1	May 23/24	The nature of qualitative research	Deliberative questions Course notes
Scenario		Introduction to qualitative research	C ourse notes
Week 2	May 30/31	Subjectivity and Objectivity
Scenario	Overview of methods Educators as Field Researchers	Readings Ostrow, J. (1990) The availability of a difference: Clifford Geertz on problems of ethnographic research and interpretation. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 3, 61 70.	Course notes
Week 3	June 6/7	Qualitative Research Journey of Discovery
Scenario	*new* Grounded theory: a thumbnail sketch (resource paper in action research)	The Schock of the Other A Film from the PBS millennium series.	Course notes
Week 4	June 13/14	Overcoming bias
Scenario	Internet readings The problem of bias in qualitative research More about bias from Professor Olson in Alberta Canada	Readings Collier, D., & Mahoney, J. (1996). Insights and Pitfalls: Selection Bias in Qualitative Research. World Politics, 49, 56 91	Bias and truth Why bias?
Week 5	June 20/21	Interviewing	You are in the electronic forum this week. No class.
Scenario	Internet readings Asking questions, staying focused Keeping records Conducting an interview - from Professor Frey at the University of Idaho		Deliberative questions: Base your response on your understanding of the film "Shock of the Other". What themes of the film can you relate to information contained in the course readings to date? How are these connections important to your understanding of the role of qualitative researcher? Why is the presence of the researcher so important to a study (it cannot be eliminated?) Post your response in electronicseminar. Course notes
Week 6	June 27/28	Interviewing	You are in the electronic forum this week. No class.
Scenario	Internet readings Life history interviews	Readings Beer, D. (1997). "There's a certain slant of light": The experience of discovery in qualitative interviewing. The Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, 17, 110 127.	Course notes
Week 7	July 11	Soundness Reliability and Validity	You are in the electronic forum this week. No class. Deliberative questions? You have read internet sources and the article "There is a certain slant of light..." How will you design an interview for your field work? Why have you made the choices you have made? Can you explain how the readings so far have influenced your decisions?
Scenario	Internet readings Validity: Qualitative versus Quantitative Understandings new - Keeping validity in the interview process Relationships and Roles	LeCompte, M. D., & Goetz, J. P. (1982) Problems of reliability and validity in ethnographic research. Review of Educational Research, 52, 31 60. Maxwell, J. A. Understanding and validity in qualitative research. Harvard Educational Review, 62, 272 300. Lincoln, Y., & Guba, E. G. Judging the quality of case study reports. QSE reprint.	Course notes
Week 8	July 18/19	Portraiture	You are in the electronic forum this week. No class. Deliberative questions? What topics will you cover in your interview? How do these topics reflect your conceptual model and make it come alive? How will you ensure that you will use sound follow-up procedures?
Scenario	Center for Narrative Inquiry - Forthcoming works Bringing Narrative Inquiry to School Reform Narrative Inquiry	Readings Stuhlmiller, C., & Thorsen, R. (1997). Narrative picturing: A new strategy for qualitative data collection. Qualitative Health Research, 7, 140 149.	Course notes
Week 9	July 25/26	Participant observation	Deliberative questions: From what you have read about working with small samples, and sometimes an N of 1, how will you ensure that your field report will be rich? That it will contain depth and detail, as well as capture a sense of the eye-witness account?
Scenario	from Dr. Dave Williams book, questions and considerations this is a link that won't follow the color rules for the page. Who knows?	Monti, D. (1993). The culture of gangs in the culture of the school. Qualitative Sociology, 16, 383 405.
Week 10	August 1/2	Content analysis	You are in the electronic forum this week. No class. Deliberative questions? How will you incorporate elements of good participant observation in your study?
Scenario			Course notes
Week 11	August 8/9	Pulling it all together theoretical understanding
Scenario	Telling the story

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