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Mastering the Semi-Structured Interview and Beyond

From Research Design to Analysis and Publication
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Mastering the Semi-Structured Interview and Beyond offers an in-depth and captivating step-by-step guide to the use of semi-structured interviews in qualitative research. By tracing the life of an actual research project-an exploration of a school district's effort over 40 years to address racial equality-as a consistent example threaded across the volume, Anne Galletta shows in concrete terms how readers can approach the planning and execution of their own new research endeavor, and illuminates unexpected real-life challenges they may confront and how to address them. The volume offers a close look at the inductive nature of qualitative research, the use of researcher reflexivity, and the systematic and iterative steps involved in data collection, analysis, and interpretation. It offers guidance on how to develop an interview protocol, including the arrangement of questions and ways to evoke analytically rich data. Particularly useful for those who may be familiar with qualitative research but have not yet conducted a qualitative study, Mastering the Semi-Structured Interview and Beyond will serve both undergraduate and graduate students as well as more advanced scholars seeking to incorporate this key methodological approach into their repertoire.
ContentsForeword by William E. Cross, Jr. ixAcknowledgments xi Introduction 1Section I: Setting the Stage 1 Craft ing a Design to Yield a Complete Story 9 2 Th e Semi-Structured Interview as a Repertoire of Possibilities 45Section II: The Semi-Structured Interview: Collecting and Analyzing Qualitative Data 3 Conducting the Interview: Th e Role of Reciprocity and Refl exivity 75 4 Ongoing and Iterative Data Analysis 119Section III: Synthesizing and Interpreting Research Findings 5 Building Th eory 149 6 Writing Up and Speaking Back to the Literature 173 Aft erword: Loose Th reads 191Appendix A: Sample Protocol for Student Participants 195Appendix B: Past as Present, Present as Past: Historicizing Black Education and Interrogating "Integration" 203Notes 231References 235Index 241About the Author 245
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