AltaMira Press
Pages: 216
Trim: 6½ x 9
978-0-7591-0295-8 • Hardback • May 2003 • $136.00 • (£105.00)
978-0-7591-0296-5 • Paperback • May 2003 • $54.00 • (£42.00)
978-0-7591-1619-1 • eBook • May 2003 • $51.00 • (£39.00)
Johnny Salda-a is a professor of Theatre at Arizona State University.
Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Introduction: Looking Toward the Journey
Chapter 3
Chapter 1: Longitudinal Qualitative Studies, Time, and Change
Chapter 4
Chapter 2: Longitudinal Qualitative Research Design
Chapter 5
Chapter 3: Longitudinal Qualitative Data Analysis
Chapter 6
Chapter 4: Framing Questions
Chapter 7
Chapter 5: Descriptive Questions
Chapter 8
Chapter 6: Analytic and Interpretive Questions
Chapter 9 Conclusion: Looking Back at the Journey
Chapter 10 References
Chapter 11 Footnotes 12 Appendix: Longitudinal Qualitative Data Summary 13 Index
Professor Saldaña's Longitudinal Qualitative Research explores the depth of information possible in longitudinal research as well as the potential pitfalls associated with these types of studies. It is a thoughtful book for those engaged in qualitative research....
— Anna V. Wilson, North Carolina State University
Johnny Saldaña is one of the most creative minds working in qualitative research today. Here he offers an important option to qualitative researchers, explained in a fresh, interesting way. Using examples from a background combining theatre and educational research, he shows how to approach long-term studies, what kinds of questions can be addressed that shorter research projects cannot, and how the passage of time affects how we research and what we learn....
— Harry F. Wolcott, University of Oregon; (d. 2012)
This book is welcomed addition to the books on qualitative analysis, none of which to this time have given the in-depth attention to process that Saldaña has. The book not only makes the case for process but gives clear strategies for how to bring processinto analysis. This will be a great aid to students of qualitative analysis....
— Juliet M. Corbin
I think [his] book on qualitative research—longitudinal or just 'commonplace' is GREAT. . . .There are so many excellent references, descriptions and discussions for texts, support books, articles, journals, monographs, etc. in [his] book, that any doctoral student preparing to do a dissertation could benefit from, I feel [his] book—wheteher someone is doing longitudinal qualitative research or not, is a valuable offering and should be read by qualitative researchers, even if they are not contemplatinglongitudinal research...
— Edith King
There is much [in the book] for an advanced researcher: in particular, how to think of and track change. . . . This volume is trying to bring rigor to a method that was somewhat ad hoc, whose details had not been previously spelled out. The steps Saldanaprovides us with to do this kind of work go beyond longitudinal research. Indeed, they are both handy and abstract anough to be worth considering by many of us doing a broad range of different forms of qualitative research....
— Janet Salaff
• Winner, 2004 Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association, Ethnography Division