Contents: 1. Introduction: Using qualitative research methods for educational research / Michael R.M. Ward and Sara Delamont
Part I. Theories, disciplines and standpoints
2. Sociology of education / Sara Delamont
3. Methodologies for an anthropology of education / Marta Sánchez
4. History and ethnography: Interfaces and juxtapositions / Maria Tamboukou
5. Feminist perspectives on qualitative educational research / Alexandra Allan
6. Critical race theory methods in educational research: Examples from iceland / Brynja Elísabeth Halldórsdóttir and Jón Ingvar Kjaran
7. Queer theories and unruly educational research / Lisa W. Loutzenheiser
8. Indigenous research methods / Russell Bishop
9. Ethics and qualitative research / Gideon Calder
10. Researching educational processes through time: The value of qualitative longitudinal methods / Bren Neale
Part II. Research settings
11. Researching technical and vocational education and training in a uk context: Classic works and contemporary concerns / Liz Atkins
12. Striving, surviving, arriving and thriving: Qualitative research on professional education / Michael Thomas
13. Dynamic qualitative methods: Attending to place, space and time in higher education / Kirsty Finn and Mark Holton
14. Teacher education / Mark Dressman, Wayne Journell and Jay Mann
15. Apprenticeship: Toward a reflexive method for researching 'education in "non-formal" settings' / Wolff-Michael Roth
16. Online, offline, hybrid, or blended? Doing ethnographies of education in a digitally-mediated world / Jonathan Tummons
17. Accounting for social and cultural differences in qualitative research with adult learners / Toni Kosonen
18. Why a playwork perspective on play suits a qualitative research paradigm / Pete King
19. Gypsies and other homeschoolers: The challenges of researching an alternative education / Martin Myers
20. Critical and 'connected' ethnography: The case of an entrepreneurial academy / Kirsty Morrin
Part III. Data collection
21. Sandboxing: A creative approach to qualitative research in education / Dawn Mannay and Catt Turney
22. Schools in focus: Photo methods in educational research / Louisa Allen
23. Mobile methods / Margarethe Kusenbach
24. The uses and usefulness of life history / Randall F. Clemens and William G. Tierney
25. Gathering narrative data / Jane Elliott
26. Documents as data: Burrowing into the heart of educational institutions / Aimee Grant
27. Traditional or 'peopled' ethnography: From process to product / Alex McInch
28. Autoethnography in education / Susanne Gannon
29. Interviews with individuals / Amir Marvasti and Sam Tanner
30. Using focus groups / Jude Robinson
31. Online methods in educational research / James Robson
32. Art, social justice and critical pedagogy in educational research: 'the portrait of an artist as a young person' / Sadia Habib
Part IV. Analysis and representation
33. Transcription of speech / Martyn Hammersley
34. Analysing narratives: The narrative construction of professional identity / Cate Watson and Connie Mcluckie
35. Approaching narrative analysis: 28 questions / Martin Cortazzi and Lixian Jin
36. Analyzing fieldnotes: A practical guide / Zoë B. Corwin and Randall F. Clemens
37. Using software to support qualitative data analysis / Trena M. Paulus and Jessica N. Lester
38. Reflexive thematic analysis / Gareth Terry and Nikki Hayfield
39. Textual genres: And the challenge of 'presencing' the world / Margaret J. Somerville
40. Dance: Making movement meaningful / Carl Bagley and Ricardo Castro-Salazar
41. Performing findings: Tales of the theatrical self / Rachel Holmes
42. From voice: To active/voice within spaces of difference / Andrew Gitlin
43. Elicited metaphor analysis: Researching teaching and learning / Martin Cortazzi and Lixian Jin
Index.