Stephen D. Lapan, PhD, is Director, C & I Doctoral Program, College of Education, Northern Arizona University, He has developed and taught courses in statistics, tests and measurements, program evaluation, action research, introduction to research, paradigms for research, and currently teaches introductory and advanced research courses. Recent awards include the Arizona Association for Gifted and Talented Honor Board Life Achievement Award, Northern Arizona University College of Education Distinguished Service Award for Research, and Northern Arizona University first campus wide Teaching Scholar award. MaryLynn T. Quartaroli, PhD, is Project Director of the NEXUS Math/Science NAU grant for Science Foundation Arizona. She is also evaluating programs funded by the U.S, Department of Education in projects as diverse as the Math Science Partnership and the Carol M. White Physical Education Program.Frances Julia Riemer, PhD, is Associate Professor in the College of Education at Northern Arizona University and Director of the University's Women and Gender Studies Program. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award, a dissertation fellowship from the Spencer Foundation, a post-doctoral fellowship from the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, and an Elva Knight research grant from the International Reading Association.

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• Tables, Figures, and Exhibits xi Preface xiiiThe Editors xixThe Contributors xxiPart One A Qualitative Frame of Mind1 Introduction to Qualitative Research 3Stephen D. Lapan, MaryLynn T. Quartaroli, and Frances Julia Riemer2 Ethics in Qualitative Research in Education and the Social Sciences 19Donna M. Mertens3 Grounded Theory 41Robert Thornberg, Kathy Charmaz4 Methodology, Methods, and Tools in Qualitative Research 69Jean J. SchensulPart Two Drawing on the Disciplines5 Biography and Life Story Research 107Cynthia E. Winston6 Mystery Solved: Detective Skills and the Historian's Craft 137Laurie Moses Hines7 Ethnographic Research 163Frances Julia Riemer8 Trekking Through Autoethnography 189Tony E. Adams, Carolyn EllisPart Three Integrating the Disciplines9 Narrative Inquiry: Stories Lived, Stories Told 215Christine K. Lemley, Roland W. Mitchell10 Case Study Research 243Tricia S. Moore, Stephen D. Lapan, MaryLynn T. Quartaroli11 Arts-Based Research 271Sharon Verner Chappell, Tom Barone12 Practitioner Action Research 291Stephen D. Lapan13 Program Evaluation 321MaryLynn T. QuartaroliPart Four Emancipatory Discourses14 Preliminary Considerations of an African American Culturally Responsive Evaluation System 347Pamela Frazier-Anderson, Stafford Hood, Rodney K. Hopson15 What Makes Critical Ethnography "Critical"? 373Angelina E. Castagno16 Feminist Research 391Lucy E. Bailey17 Reclaiming Scholarship: Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies 423Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Heather R. Gough, Beth Leonard, Roy F. Roehl II, Jessica A. Solyom18 Democratizing Qualitative Research 451Ernest R. HouseReferences 473Index 509