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Qualitative research in education - a user's guide Marilyn Lichtman Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006 ISBN: 0-7619-2935-5 249 pages, USS39-95
Marilyn Lichtman is a retired professor of educational research and evaluation from Virginia Tech in the USA. Based on her own extensive experience as a student, teacher and researcher in education over many years, this book is offered not only as an introductory text to the field, but as a basic manual for those undertaking research in education using a wide range of qualitative methodologies. It is the kind of practical how-to book that Lichtman reflects was not in existence in the early days when qualitative research was seen as radical, somewhat inferior and not well supported by a theory base (which was not really that long ago), and so she has set out to construct a text that would, as the sub-title suggests, be a 'user's guide' to the field for teachers, researchers and research students.
In this, she has succeeded admirably. The book is well structured, written in the first person and therefore accessible and readable, and the contents are logically presented and...