Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Qualitative Studies Series
  • The Compleat Observer?
  • Contents
  • 1 Problems and Pitfalls
  • Foreground and Background
  • Even Though We Aren't Reading for Meaning!
  • Postscript
  • 2 'You Are Here!'
  • The Split in Social Sciences: Positivism and Naturalism
  • Educational Ethnography
  • 3 'Inside Out or Outside In?'
  • The Key to Entry
  • Personal Preparation
  • Postscript
  • 4 The Ethics of Entry
  • Covert Research
  • Gamekeeper Turning Poacher
  • Proxy Observation
  • Postscript
  • 5 Validity and Invalidity Benefits
  • Validity and Pragmatism
  • Validity and Naturalistic Enquiry
  • Postscript
  • 6 Checking It Out
  • The Memory of the Video of the Methodology of the Research?
  • The Galton Position?
  • The Elliott Position?
  • Why can checklists be Good Things?
  • Observation Counts
  • Of Sociograms
  • Stages of observation
  • Postscript
  • 7 Seeing Through The Interview
  • The Case for Tape Recording
  • Weakness of Tape Recording
  • The Case for Note Taking
  • Weaknesses in Note Taking
  • Generating, Processing and Reporting Interview Data: Two Profiles
  • Postscript
  • 8 Research in the Technological Sense
  • Electronic Ears
  • Electronic Eyes
  • 'Make Sure It's on the Screen, can be Heard and can be Seen'
  • The Kingdom of the Blind
  • Under the Surface
  • Two-faced Communication
  • 9 Seven Types of Creativity: Observation And Data Analysis
  • Imagination and Codification
  • Research for Action
  • Creative Analysis of Observational Data
  • Seven Types of Creativity in Data Analysis
  • Postscript
  • 10 Closely Observed Training
  • Conceptual Framework for Observation Workshops
  • An Example of Training for Observation
  • 11 Administering Poison: Reporting Observations
  • Postscript
  • 12 Tales of Future Past
  • Postscript
  • Bibliography
  • Index.