About the authors -- Acknowledgments -- Analytic table of contents by approach -- List of tables and figures -- Introduction -- Philosophical assumptions and interpretive frameworks -- Designing a qualitative study -- Five qualitative approaches to inquiry -- Five different qualitative studies -- Introducing and focusing the study -- Data collection -- Data analysis and representation -- Writing a qualitative study -- Standards of validation and evaluation -- "Turning the story" and conclusion -- Appendix A. An annotated glossary of terms -- Appendix B. A narrative research study -- "Living in the space between participant and researcher as a narrative inquirer: examining ethnic identity of Chinese Canadian students as conflicting stories to live by" / Elaine Chan -- Appendix C. A phenomenological study -- "Cognitive representation of AIDS" / Elizabeth H. Anderson and Margaret Hull Spencer -- Appendix D. A grounded theory study -- "Developing long-term physical activity participation: a grounded theory study with African American women" / Amy E. Harley [and others] -- Appendix E. An ethnography --"British-born Pakistani and Bangladeshi young men: exploring unstable concepts of Muslim, Islamophobia and racialization / Mairtin Mac an Ghaill and Chris Haywood -- Appendix F. A case study -- "Relational underpinnings and professionality -- a case study of a teacher's practices involving students with experiences of school failure" / Anneli Frelin -- References -- Name index -- Subject index.