Narratives of Qualitative Research Making Praxis Visible

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Narratives of Qualitative Research uses a novel form of writing about how to do qualitative research called a praxis narrative. Each narrative is told from the author’s perspective in carrying out one of his past research studies in the social sciences. Told chronologically and in a first-person voice the narratives position the reader alongside the narrator so as to vicariously experience how research happens in its situated particulars. Rather than a set of idealizations and universalized pronouncements the author reveals what really goes on when one is in the thick of complex and challenging research studies the points of trouble along with the successes. This will be relevant to researc…