Constructing Methodology for Qualitative Research: Researching Education and Social Practices

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction....Pages 1-14
A Non-binary Methodological Manoeuvre: Expert Quantitative and Novice Qualitative Researcher....Pages 15-29
Dipping Qualitative Toes into a Quantitative Worldview: Methodological Manoeuvres in a Multicultural Context....Pages 31-44
Navigating the Path Between Positivism and Interpretivism for the Technology Academic Completing Education Research....Pages 45-58
A Bricoleur Approach to Navigating the Methodological Maze....Pages 59-72
Manoeuvring Through the Maze of Methodology: Constructing the Research-Ready Embodied RHD Student....Pages 73-87
Elements of a Fusionist Ontology: Paradigmatic Choices in Understanding the Reasons for Career Change....Pages 89-104
We Cannot Do This Work Without Being Who We Are: Researching and Experiencing Academic Selves....Pages 105-122
Show and Tell: A Practice-Led Methodological Solution for Researchers in Creative Writing....Pages 123-137
Articulating the Fact Behind the Fiction: Narrative Inquiry as a Research Methodology for Historical Novelists....Pages 139-153
On Manoeuvre: Navigating Practice-Led Methodology in a Creative Writing PhD for the First Time....Pages 155-169
Methodological and Other Research Strategies to Manoeuvre from Single to Multi- and Interdisciplinary Project Partnerships....Pages 171-186
Contested Concepts: Negotiating Debates About Qualitative Research Methods Such as Grounded Theory and Autoethnography....Pages 187-200
Discursive Manoeuvring in the Borderlands of Career Transition: From Trade to Teacher....Pages 201-217
Understanding and Influencing Research with Children....Pages 219-235
From Fledgling Manoeuvres to Methodological Confidence: Conversations Between a Doctoral Student and Supervisor on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis to Explore the Everyday Worlds of Children and Families....Pages 237-252
Reimagining Rooms for Methodological Manoeuvres: Distilled Dilemmas, Proposed Principles and Synthesised Strategies in Research Education and Social Practices Qualitatively....Pages 253-268
Back Matter....Pages 269-270