[Xmca-l] Re: The Science of Qualitative Research 2ed

Martin Packer mpacker@cantab.net
Tue Jan 2 13:47:47 PST 2018


David,

I have struggled various times over how to structure a How To book. I have found that I can teach research methods in the classroom only by means of constant interaction with (and among) students, and I cannot figure out how to replicate or simulate this in a printed book!  It’s quite frustrating.

Martin


> On Dec 20, 2017, at 4:27 PM, David Kellogg <dkellogg60@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Compare
> with Keith Richards, "Qualitative Inquiry in TESOL" (Palgrave Macmillan) or
> Johnny Saldana "Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers" (Sage). Richards
> begins his collection of piecemeal accounts with horrifying "how not to"
> vignettes of how he victimized his students for "misapplying" Conversation
> Analysis: this is how not to teach ideas to students. Saldana is a little
> better, but the closest he gets to good examples of how to be continent,
> object-specific, and concrete is advice like "reflect on analytic codings".
> Show me, Professor!



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