Michael Crossley, Graham Vulliamy

"The book is a stimulating, wide-ranging examination that touches on practical methods in field conditions and that indicates the debates around methodology in an engaging and concrete way." -- Comparative Education Review"Valuable...very warmly recommended...An excellent text for students undertaking research on developing countries and should...be on the compulsory reading lists of all those courses concerned with comparative and international education." -- International Journal of Educational Development"An excellent text for studetns undertaking research, in or about education in developing countries and should, therefore, be on the compulsory reading lists of all those courses concerned with comparative and international education. All those with an interest in education in developing countries will find much in this book of interest not least because readers are shown glimpses 'behind the scenes' of finished research publications." -- Qualitative Research in Developing Countries

• Qualitative Research in Developing Countries: Issues and Experience, Michael Crossley and Graham Vulliamy * Integrating Paradigms in Educational Research: Issues of Quantity and Quality in Poor Countries, Rosemary Preston * Qualitative Research and Educational Policy-Making: Approaching the Reality in Developing Countries, Cheng Kai-ming * Importance of Fieldwork: Anthropology and Education in Papua New Guinea, Wayne Fife * Using Documents for Qualitative Research in Africa, Clive Harber Interviews and the Study of School Management: An International Perspective, Lynn Davies * Classroom Action Research in Lesotho, Janet Stuart with Mahlape Morojele and Pulane Lefoka * Dilemmas of Insider Research in a Small Country Setting: Tertiary Education in St. Lucia, Pearlette Louisy * Planning for Case-Study Evaluation in Belize, Central America, Michael Crossley and J. Alexander Bennett * Implementing Qualitative Research in Pakistan: International Teamwork, R.L. Smith * North-South Collaboration in Educational Research: Reflections on Indian Experience, Archana Choksi and Caroline Dyer