PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS Series Editor JOHN VANMAANEN Associate University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Editors: Peter K. Manning , Northeastern University & Marc L. Miller, of Washington Other volumes in this series listed on outside back cover
IVE 1. RELIABILITY AND VALIDI TY IN QUALITAT
26. DOING CRITICAL ETHNOGRAPHY THOMAS
RESEARCH KIRK
I MILLER
27. ETHNOGRAPHY IN ORGANIZATIONS SCHWARTZMAN
2. SPEAKING OF ETHNOGRAPHY
28. EMOTIONS AND FIELDWORK
AGAR
KLEINMAN I COPP
3. TH E POLITICS AND ETHICS OF FIELDWORK
29. SECRECY AND FIELDWORK
PUNCH
MITCHELL
4. LINKING DATA
S.
FIELDING I FIELDING
30. NARRATIVE ANALYSIS
THE CLINICAL PERSP ECTIVE IN FIELD WORK
RIESSMAN 31. ARCHIVAL STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES
SCHEIN
HILL
6. MEMBERSHIP ROLES IN FIELD RESEARCH ADLER
32. CASE STUDY METHODS
I ADLER
7. SEMIOTICS AND FIELDWORK
HAMEL I DUFOUR I FORTIN 33. STRATEGIES FOR INTERPRETING QUALITAT
MANNING
DATA
8. ANALYZING FIELD REALITY GUBRIUM
FELDMAN
34.
LEE
9. GENDER ISSU ES IN FIELD RESEARCH WARREN
35. CONVERSATION ANALYSIS
10. SYSTEMATIC DATA COLLECTION WELLER
II.
I ROMNEY
PSATHAS 36. ETHNOM ETHOOOLOGY
META-ETHNOGRAPHY: SYNTHESIZING QUALITATIVE STUDIES
COULON 37. THE ACTIVE INTERVIEW
NOBLIT I HARE 12. F.THNOSTATISTICS: QUALITATIVE FOUNDATIONS
HOLSTEIN ALTHEIDE
39. STUDYING ORGANIZATIONAL SYMBOLISM
THE LONG INTERVIEW MCCRACKEN
JONES 40. INSIDER/OUTSIDER TEAM RESEARCH
BARTUNEK I LOUIS
14. MICROCOMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN QUALITA
TIVE RESEARCH
41. WORKING WITH SENSI TIZING CONCEPTS
VAN DEN HOONAARD
PFAFFENBERGER
IS.
KNOWING CHILDREN: PARTICIPANT
42. DOING TEAM ETHNOGRAPHY
OBSERVATION WITH MINORS FINE I SANDSTROM
ERICKSON
17. INTERPRETIVE BIOGRAPHY DENZIN
STUDIES CZARNIAWSKA
44. THE LIFE STORY INTERVIEW ATKINSON 45. EMPLOYING QUALITATIVE METHODS IN TH
PRIVAT E SECTOR
18. PSYCHOANALYTIC ASPECTS OF FIELDWORK HUNT
19.
ETHNOGRAPHIC DECISION TREE MODELING
MITCHELL 46. THE ETHNOGRAPHER'S METHOD
GLADWIN 20. WRITING UP QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
STEWART 47. CONDUCTING INTERPRETIVE POLICY ANAL
WOLCOTT 21. WRITING STRAT EGIES: REACHING DIVERS E
YANOW 48. EXPLORATORY RESEARCH IN THE SOCIAL
AUDIENCES
SCI ENCES
STEBBINS
RICHARDSON 22. SELECTING ETHNOGRAPHIC INFORMANTS
49. SYSTEMATIC SELF-OBSERVATION
JOHNSON 23. LIVING THE ETHNOGRAPHIC LIFE
RODRIGUEZ
SO.
DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
51.
FEMINIST FIELDWORK ANALYSIS
ROSE 24. ANALYZING VISUAL DATA
BALL/SMITH 25. UNDERSTANDING ETHNOGRAPHIC TEXTS ATKINSON
I STULL
43. A NARRATIVE APPROACH TO ORGANIZATIO
16. FOCUS GROUPS AS QUALITATIVE RESEARCH ' (SECOND EDITION) MORGAN
I GUBRIUM
38. QUALITATIVE MEDIA ANALYSIS
FOR QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH GEPHART
13.
DANGEROUS FIELDWORK
PHILLIPS
KLEINMAN 52. PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH MCINTYRE
PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH
Alice Mcintyre Hellenic College
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS SERIES 52
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Mcintyre, Alice, 1956Participatory action research
I Alice Mcintyre.
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1. Social sciences-Research. 2. Action research. 3. Communities-Research. 4. Social participation. 5. Group problem solving. I. Title. H62.M3363 2008 300. 72--