A copy of the 6th edition of the SAGE Handbook of qualitative research (Denzin et al., 2024) arrived in my mailbox recently. And just like earlier editions, it is big and heavy! Divided into five parts, with 34 chapters, and spanning over 700 pages, the volume provides updated and new chapters. Parts include: Locating the … Continue reading The SAGE handbook of qualitative research
Month: June 2023
Leaps and bounds in writing practices
Writing down the bones: Freeing the writer within, by Natalie Goldberg, is a classic text that gets mentioned a lot in relation to free-writing. Goldberg’s book, first published in 1986, advocates an approach to writing that integrates writing in life. Presented as a series of short vignettes about writing, Goldberg writes in first-person, inviting readers … Continue reading Leaps and bounds in writing practices
Getting creative with interview methods
Although qualitative interviews are massively used in qualitative studies all over the world, there is enormous variation in how interviews are conducted, and by what mode. Qualitative researchers have been exceptionally creative in how they elicit verbal accounts from participants of research studies. For example, here are some of the numerous descriptors used in relation … Continue reading Getting creative with interview methods
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