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After the glamour of working in the field is over, you now face the daunting challenge of transforming your field notes and interview tapes into a completed study. But where do you start? In Transforming Qualitative Data, Harry F. Wolcott guides you through the process of completing your research study. Beginning with an introductory chapter that presents his views on ethnography, he explores the transformation process by breaking it down into three related activities: description, analysis, and interpretation. To illustrate each point, he critically examines his own work, using nine of his previous studies as illustrations. Then he shows you how to learn--and to teach--qualitative research by applying the three principles outlined in the volume. Written with the usual wit and brilliance shown in Wolcott′s work, Transforming Qualitative Data is a major statement on doing research by one of the master ethnographers of our time.

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• Something Old, Something New
• Description, Analysis, and Interpretation in Qualitative Inquiry
• Part 1 Emphasis on Description
• Adequate Schools and Inadequate Education
• The Life History of a Sneaky Kid
• The Elementary School Principal
• Notes from a Field Study
• Confessions of a 'Trained' Observer
• Part 2 Emphasis on Analysis
• A Malay Village That Progress Chose
• Sungai Lui and the Institute of Cultural Affairs
• Life's Not Working
• Cultural Alternatives to Career Alternatives
• Part 3 Emphasis on Interpretation
• The Teacher as an Enemy
• Afterword, 1989
• A Kwakiutl Village and School 25 Years Later
• The Acquisition of Culture
• Notes on a Working Paper
• On Seeking - and Rejecting - Validity in Qualitative Research
• Part 4 Teaching And Learning Qualitative Inquiry
• Teaching Qualitative Inquiry
• Learning Qualitative Inquiry
• Some Power of Reasoning, Much Aided

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Harry F. Wolcott (Ph.D. Stanford) taught at the University of Oregon, serving on both the faculties of education and anthropology. He authored several ethnographic texts that included his experiences among the Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia and with the African Beer Gardens of Bulawayo, Rhodesia, as well on ethnographic method and on writing itself, with a focus on qualitative research. His publications included: Transforming Qualitative Data (SAGE 1994); Art of Fieldwork (2nd ed., Altamira Press 2005); Ethnography: A Way of Seeing (2nd ed., Altamira Press 2008); Writing Up Qualitative Research (3rd ed., SAGE 2009); Sneaky Kid and Its Aftermath: Ethics and Intimacy in Fieldwork (Altamira 2002), and Ethnography Lessons: A Primer (Left Coast Press, 2010).