Modes of Thinking for Qualitative Data Analysis

by Melissa Freeman

Overview

Modes of Thinking for Qualitative Data Analysis argues for engagement with the conceptual underpinnings of five prominent analytical strategies used by qualitative researchers: Categorical Thinking, Narrative Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, Poetical Thinking, and Diagrammatical Thinking.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781629581781
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/14/2016
Pages:	154
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Melissa Freeman is Professor of Qualitative Research Methodologies in the Mary Frances Early College of Education at The University of Georgia (UGA), USA

Table of Contents

1. Introduction  2. Modes of Thinking  3. Categorical Thinking  4. Narrative Thinking  5. Dialectical Thinking  6. Poetic Thinking  7. Diffractive Thinking  8. Decolonial Thinking

Editorial Reviews

"We’ve long needed this book, a book which would take students and scholars alike through the complex process of doing qualitative analysis. Melissa Freeman’s Modes of Thinking for Qualitative Data Analysis meets these needs. Its creative, comparative focus on forms of thinking, from categorical, to narrative, dialectical, poetical, diagrammatical, opens new windows on how to interpret empirical material." – Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

"Melissa Freeman has developed a compelling typology for understanding qualitative work... Her work counters the standard classifications which connect methods with a particular methodology or tradition and leads to confusion. Instead, she argues persuasively, and with examples, that for a truly reflexive stance and a critical understanding of research, researchers must engage in "pentimento," or must see again, to understand essences and create innovative possibilities." - Lynn Butler-Kisber, McGill University

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