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With this book, Meloy reflects upon incidents and examples of thinking and learning across her career as a middle and high school teacher and as a college professor. Her ABCs are the focal point of concepts and ideas that teachers will most likely recognize even as they begin to consider their own.
Takes readers through the process of writing the qualitative dissertation. Shares the author's and many correspondents' understandings of and reflections on how it feels and what it means to do qualitative research for the doctoral dissertation.
Qualitative research has emerged from a twentieth century ‘paradigm war’ at the doctoral level to become a significant and real opportunity for undergraduate, masters’, and doctoral students at colleges and universities around the world. ESL researchers, first generation college students, and individuals identifying themselves as “quants” are discovering the capacity of their own thinking as they learn about and simultaneously undertake qualitative research for their theses. This book is the result of a general query; it is composed almost entirely of the thoughts, concerns, and wisdom of sixty-nine current and recently defended doctoral students across the process of learning abou...
“A textual mentor like During the Dissertation can fill a void in writers’ lives at a time of solitude, uncertainty, and anxiety. Keep it under your pillow.” This volume is a sequel to Casanave’s popular Before the Dissertation. Like that volume, this book is designed as a companion for doctoral dissertation writers of qualitative or mixed methods work in fields related to language education. It could also benefit those writing master’s theses and those writing in other social science fields. It is meant to be consulted once the writing has begun—once students have settled on a topic, designed the project, or collected the data—because this is the time when they are analyzing, ...
A collection of articles from a group of commentators on American education, this book covers areas such as the creation of community in schools, the use of such ideas as commitment, the use of incentives and the promotion of colleagueship and leadership.