Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation: A Road Map From Beginning to End - Couverture souple

Bloomberg, Linda Dale; Volpe, Marie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1544336527 ISBN 13 : 9781544336527

Editeur : SAGE Publications, Inc, 2018

Synopsis

Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation offers comprehensive step-by-step guidance and practical tools for navigating the personal and professional challenges that can arise during the qualitative dissertation journey. Authors Linda Dale Bloomberg and Maria Volpe skillfully blend the conceptual, theoretical, and practical, empowering readers to successfully master both the content and the process of their qualitative dissertations.  

The Fourth Edition has been thoroughly updated to respond to developments in the field, allowing the book to have wider application for dissertation work within the evolving world of qualitative inquiry. Included in this edition is a new chapter titled “Achieving Alignment Throughout Your Dissertation,” a greater focus on how all qualitative traditions can encompass activist research and social justice inquiry, and enhanced coverage on the role of the researcher, emphasizing the importance of reflexivity and approaching research critically.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Dr. Linda Bloomberg is a cofounder of Columbia University’s Global Learning and Leadership Institute, and previously served as senior researcher for the South African Human Sciences Research Council and National Institute for Personnel Research, focusing on change management, diversity initiatives, and workplace learning. For the past two decades she has served as dissertation chair and subject matter expert in doctoral programs where she also develops curriculum for graduate research courses. Linda consults to numerous research and nonprofit advisory boards, including the Future Talent Council, Global Advisory Board for Faculty and Staff Development, Mentor in Residence for SAGE Publications, and educational blog contributor to Teachers College Publications. She presents regularly at national and international professional conferences on topics related to qualitative research, online learning, and professional development for online pedagogy, and is the author of multiple publications in the fields of qualitative research, organizational evaluation, leadership development, ensuring equitable student success, adult learning, and distance education, and a contributor to The Sage Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation (2018). Her two most recent books include the 5th edition of Completing your Qualitative Dissertation: A Road Map From Beginning to End (2023) published by SAGE and Designing and Delivering Effective Online Instruction: How to Engage Adult Learners (2021) published by Teachers College Press, Columbia University. The latter publication was nominated for the 2021 and 2022 Division of Distance Learning for the Association of Educational Communications and Technology and for the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) award for Excellence in Instructional and Teaching Practice (2024). Dr. Bloomberg holds master’s degrees in counseling psychology, organizational psychology, and adult education. In 2006, she completed her doctorate in adult education and organizational learning at Columbia University.  In 2021 she received a diploma in executive coaching from the Goizueta Business School, Emory University, and is qualified as an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation (ICF).

Marie Volpe is adjunct faculty in adult learning and leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she teaches dissertation seminars and serves as advisor to doctoral candidates. She conducts workshops for teachers in Mongolia and lectures on qualitative research methods at Suzhou University, China. After a career spanning thirty-five years with Exxon Corporation, where she held the position of manager of education and development, Dr. Volpe embarked on a second career in higher education, in which she has practiced for the past twenty years. She has contributed to publications in the areas of staff development and informal learning in the workplace. She received her master’s in organizational psychology and doctorate in adult education from Columbia University.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Addressing one of the key challenges facing doctoral students, this fourth edition guides the reader through each step of their qualitative dissertation, with a new chapter on achieving alignment, reflexive questions and a greater focus on criticality and social activism.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1544336527
• ISBN 13: 9781544336527
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 4
• Nombre de pages: 413
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible