Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative Research

After the Interview

Charles Vanover, Paul Mihas, Johnny Saldana

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781544395876
• eBook ISBN: 9781544395906
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Educational Psychology
• Index: Social Sciences

This text provides comprehensive coverage of the key methods for analyzing, interpreting, and writing up qualitative research in a single volume, and drawing on the expertise of major names in the field. Covering all the steps in the process of analyzing, interpreting, and presenting findings in qualitative research, the authors utilize a consistent chapter structure that provides novice and seasoned researchers with pragmatic, "how-to" strategies. Each chapter introduces the method; uses one of the authors? own research projects as a case study of the method described; shows how the specific analytic method can be used in other types of studies; and concludes with questions and activities to prompt class discussion or personal study.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Acknowledgements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• About the Editors
• Introduction
• Section 1 Data and Conceptual Options
• As a Qualitative Study Unfolds: Shifts in Design and Analysis
• Using Qualitative Data Analysis Software to Manage the Research Process
• After Someone Else’s Interview
• Section 2 Interview Transcription Strategies
• Transcription as a Form of Qualitative Inquiry
• Theories and Practices of Transcription from Discourse Analysis
• Voice to Text: Automating Transcription
• Section 3 Strategies for Coding and Categorizing Data
• Coding System Design and Management
• Deductive and Inductive Approaches to Qualitative Data Analysis
• Coding, Categorizing, and Theming the Data: A Reflexive Search for Meaning
• Oral Coding: An Alternative Way to Make Sense of Interview Data
• Mapping Trajectories: Analyzing Focus Group Data Rhizomatically
• Analyzing and Coding Interviews and Focus Groups Considering Cross-Cultural and Cross-Language Data
• Section 4 Reflection and Analytic Memoing Strategies
• On Being a Researcher-Participant: Challenges With the Iterative Process of Data Production, Analysis, and (Re)Production
• Memo Writing Strategies: Analyzing the Parts and the Whole
• Critical Analytic Memoing*
• Section 5 Interpretive Strategies
• Listening Deeply: Indexing Research Conversations in a Narrative Inquiry
• Emergent Analysis: Strategies for Making Sense of an Evolving Longitudinal Study
• Making Claims Using Qualitative Data
• Section 6 Arts-Based Practices
• Dramatizing Interviews
• What Makes an Effective Teacher? Revealing Good Teaching Practice Through Interview Poetic Transcription
• Embedding Critical, Creative, and Contemplative Data Analysis in Interview Studies
• Follow the Headlights: On Comics-Based Data Analysis
• Section 7 Writing-Up Practices
• Turning Transcripts Into Stories
• Writing for a Broad Audience: Concept Papers, Blogs, and OpEds
• Sophie’s Choices: The Social Act of Publishing a Qualitative Study
• Conclusion
• About the Contributors
• Index