Cover
Qualitative Studies Series
The Compleat Observer?
Contents
1 Problems and Pitfalls
Foreground and Background
Even Though We Aren't Reading for Meaning!
Postscript
2 'You Are Here!'
The Split in Social Sciences: Positivism and Naturalism
Educational Ethnography
3 'Inside Out or Outside In?'
The Key to Entry
Personal Preparation
Postscript
4 The Ethics of Entry
Covert Research
Gamekeeper Turning Poacher
Proxy Observation
Postscript
5 Validity and Invalidity Benefits
Validity and Pragmatism
Validity and Naturalistic Enquiry
Postscript
6 Checking It Out
The Memory of the Video of the Methodology of the Research?
The Galton Position?
The Elliott Position?
Why can checklists be Good Things?
Observation Counts
Of Sociograms
Stages of observation
Postscript
7 Seeing Through The Interview
The Case for Tape Recording
Weakness of Tape Recording
The Case for Note Taking
Weaknesses in Note Taking
Generating, Processing and Reporting Interview Data: Two Profiles
Postscript
8 Research in the Technological Sense
Electronic Ears
Electronic Eyes
'Make Sure It's on the Screen, can be Heard and can be Seen'
The Kingdom of the Blind
Under the Surface
Two-faced Communication
9 Seven Types of Creativity: Observation And Data Analysis
Imagination and Codification
Research for Action
Creative Analysis of Observational Data
Seven Types of Creativity in Data Analysis
Postscript
10 Closely Observed Training
Conceptual Framework for Observation Workshops
An Example of Training for Observation
11 Administering Poison: Reporting Observations
Postscript
12 Tales of Future Past
Postscript
Bibliography
Index.