Contents: 1 Introduction: using qualitative research methods for educational research 1 Michael R.M. Ward and Sara Delamont PART I THEORIES, DISCIPLINES AND STANDPOINTS 2 Sociology of education 6 Sara Delamont 3 Methodologies for an anthropology of education 16 Marta Sánchez 4 History and ethnography: interfaces and juxtapositions 27 Maria Tamboukou 5 Feminist perspectives on qualitative educational research 36 Alexandra Allan 6 Critical Race Theory methods in educational research: examples from Iceland 49 Brynja Elísabeth Halldórsdóttir and Jón Ingvar Kjaran 7 Queer theories and unruly educational research 68 Lisa W. Loutzenheiser 8 Indigenous research methods 81 Russell Bishop 9 Ethics and qualitative research 93 Gideon Calder 10 Researching educational processes through time: the value of Qualitative Longitudinal methods 102 Bren Neale PART II RESEARCH SETTINGS 11 Researching Technical and Vocational Education and Training in a UK context: classic works and contemporary concerns 116 Liz Atkins 12 Striving, surviving, arriving and thriving: qualitative research on professional education 130 Michael Thomas 13 Dynamic qualitative methods: attending to place, space and time in higher education 141 Kirsty Finn and Mark Holton 14 Teacher education 153 Mark Dressman, Wayne Journell and Jay Mann 15 Apprenticeship: toward a reflexive method for researching ‘education in “non-formal” settings’ 167 Wolff-Michael Roth 16 Online, offline, hybrid, or blended? Doing ethnographies of education in a digitally-mediated world 178 Jonathan Tummons 17 Accounting for social and cultural differences in qualitative research with adult learners 190 Toni Kosonen 18 Why a playwork perspective on play suits a qualitative research paradigm 202 Pete King 19 Gypsies and other homeschoolers: the challenges of researching an alternative education 211 Martin Myers 20 Critical and ‘connected’ ethnography: the case of an entrepreneurial academy 223 Kirsty Morrin PART III DATA COLLECTION 21 Sandboxing: a creative approach to qualitative research in education 235 Dawn Mannay and Catt Turney 22 Schools in focus: photo methods in educational research 248 Louisa Allen 23 Mobile methods 257 Margarethe Kusenbach 24 The uses and usefulness of life history 270 Randall F. Clemens and William G. Tierney 25 Gathering narrative data 285 Jane Elliott 26 Documents as data: burrowing into the heart of educational institutions 299 Aimee Grant 27 Traditional or ‘peopled’ ethnography: from process to product 309 Alex McInch 28 Autoethnography in education 320 Susanne Gannon 29 Interviews with individuals 329 Amir Marvasti and Sam Tanner 30 Using focus groups 338 Jude Robinson 31 Online methods in educational research 349 James Robson 32 Art, social justice and critical pedagogy in educational research: ‘The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Person’ 360 Sadia Habib PART IV ANALYSIS AND REPRESENTATION 33 Transcription of speech 374 Martyn Hammersley 34 Analysing narratives: the narrative construction of professional identity 380 Cate Watson and Connie Mcluckie 35 Approaching narrative analysis: 28 questions 392 Martin Cortazzi and Lixian Jin 36 Analyzing fieldnotes: a practical guide 409 Zoë B. Corwin and Randall F. Clemens 37 Using software to support qualitative data analysis 420 Trena M. Paulus and Jessica N. Lester 38 Reflexive thematic analysis 430 Gareth Terry and Nikki Hayfield 39 Textual genres: and the challenge of ‘presencing’ the world 442 Margaret J. Somerville 40 Dance: making movement meaningful 454 Carl Bagley and Ricardo Castro-Salazar 41 Performing findings: tales of the theatrical self 466 Rachel Holmes 42 From voice: to active/voice within spaces of difference 477 Andrew Gitlin 43 Elicited metaphor analysis: researching teaching and learning 488 Martin Cortazzi and Lixian Jin Index