Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expanded Sourcebook

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SAGE Publications, Jan 12, 1994 - Education - 338 pages

The latest edition of this best-selling textbook by Miles and Huberman not only is considerably expanded in content, but is now available in paperback. Bringing the art of qualitative analysis up-to-date, this edition adds hundreds of new techniques, ideas and references developed in the past decade. The increase in the use of computers in qualitative analysis is also reflected in this volume. There is an extensive appendix on criteria to choose from among the currently available analysis packages. Through examples from a host of social science and professional disciplines, Qualitative Data Analysis remains the most comprehensive and complete treatment of this topic currently available to scholars and applied researchers.

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Contents

Focusing and Bounding the Collection
16
Early Steps in Analysis
50
Improvement Field Study Initial Version
68
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About the author (1994)

Matthew B. Miles, a social psychologist, had a career-long interest in strategies for educational reform. His work focused on planned change in education, group and organizational studies, and the dissemination and implementation of research findings. His first major research project was a four-year study of six new, innovative public schools. A. Michael Hubermanrsquo;s long-term interests were in scientific epistemology and adult cognition and knowledge use. His work focused on education policy, school reform, and the practical translation of research knowledge into effective school practice. His first extensive project was a four-year study of an experimental elementary schoolrsquo;s implementation of Piagetian theories into classroom practice..

Bibliographic information

TitleQualitative Data Analysis: An Expanded Sourcebook
AuthorsMatthew B. Miles, A. Michael Huberman
Edition2, illustrated, reprint
PublisherSAGE Publications, 1994
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized28 Aug 2007
ISBN0803955405, 9780803955400
Length338 pages
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