"This book offers insight into the qualitative dissertation for students enrolled in professional doctorate programs - a population that have specific requirements and resources available to them that traditional methods books often overlook. The book has three objectives: 1) it offers students a dissertation plan that aligns with the unique context of the professional doctorate; 2) it illustrates how skills gained in student's professional careers can benefit the dissertation process; and 3) it suggests a positive and affirming approach to writing productivity, the dissertation, and the degree program as a whole"--
Focused on making reflection an integral part of the journey, this updated resource guides readers through the process of researching, writing, and defending a qualitative dissertation.
As co-facilitators of a qualitative dissertation study group, they have worked with more than fifty educational practitioners using a variety of research methods described in this book.Through vignettes, anecdotes, exemplars, and "think ...
A Practical Guide to the Qualitative Dissertation: For Students and Their Advisors in Education, Human Services and Social Science
The purpose of this book is to share, in rich detail, an understanding of how it feels and what it means to do qualitative research, and to provide support for doctoral students who choose this form of inquiry for their dissertation ...
The Third Edition maintains key features that distinguish its unique approach and has been thoroughly updated and expanded throughout to reflect and address recent developments in the field.
... 191, 204, 205 Miller, D. L., 86 Miller, M. M., 40 Miller, W. L., 98 Mills, G. E., 69 Morgan, D. L., 84, 92 Morse, J. M., 7, 44, 77, 123 Moustakas, C., 11, 98 Nelson, C., 39, 140, 142 Neuman, W. L., 9 Newton, R. R., 40 Olson, K., ...
By the end of the book, students will have completed the most challenging chapter of a qualitative dissertation and laid a strong foundation for the rest of their dissertation work.
Teachers are being encouraged to carry out research in order to improve their effectiveness in the classroom, but this book suggests that they also reflect on and challenge the reductionist and technicist methods that promote a 'top down' ...
By the end of the book, students will have completed the most challenging chapter of a qualitative dissertation and laid a strong foundation for the rest of their dissertation work.
Like sands through the hourglass, the seconds slowly fall away as the music fades and the program goes to commercial. ... “I don't need this,” I say to myself as I fill my arms with books and papers and head off for yet another class, ...