Research, Probability & Statistics, Cultural, Sociology, Education, Anthropology, Reference 

The process of analyzing qualitative data and producing a complete study is discussed in this book. Breaking down the transformation process into description, analysis and interpretation, Harry Wolcott discusses these three related activities. To illustrate them, he critically analyzes his own work, using nine of his previous studies as examples. He concludes by examining how to learn and teach qualitative research using these principles. - from Amazon 

1. Something Old, Something New. 2. Description, Analysis, and Interpretation in Qualitative Inquiry -- pt. I. Emphasis on Description. 3. Adequate Schools and Inadequate Education: The Life History of a Sneaky Kid. 4. The Elementary School Principal: Notes From a Field Study. 5. Confessions of a "Trained" Observer -- pt. II. Emphasis on Analysis. 6. A Malay Village That Progress Chose: Sungai Lui and the Institute of Cultural Affairs. 7. Life's Not Working: Cultural Alternatives to Career Alternatives -- pt. III. Emphasis on Interpretation. 8. The Teacher as an Enemy. 9. Afterword, 1989: A Kwakiutl Village and School 25 Years Later. 10. The Acquisition of Culture: Notes on a Working Paper. 11. On Seeking -- and Rejecting -- Validity in Qualitative Research -- pt. IV. Teaching and Learning Qualitative Inquiry. 12. Teaching Qualitative Inquiry. 13. Learning Quantitative Inquiry. 14. Some Power of Reasoning, Much Aided -- Appendix: Qualitative Dissertations Completed by the Author's Doctoral Advisees. 

Includes bibliographical references.