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EDUC.7101: Advanced Topics in Qualitative Analysis

Welcome to Advanced Topics in Qualitative Analysis with Professor Hilary Lustick

Through a critical, antiracist, decolonizing lens, the course will serve as a survey of qualitative methodologies including: 

❖ case study 
❖ ethnography 
❖ narrative 
❖ participant action research
❖ critical discourse analysis

 as well as current topics in educational research (including gentrification, disproportionality, and educational policy).

Required Texts

Gibbs, G.R. (2008). Analyzing Qualitative Data (qualitative research kit). Sage Publications. [available at bookstore, UML library, or other print sources]

APA Manual, 7th edition [available at the bookstore and various print sources]

Recommended

Johnny Saldana, The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers 

Kristi Jackson & Pat Bazeley’s Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo Sage, 2019 (3rd ed.) 

Maggi Savin-Baden and Claire Howell Major, Qualitative Research: The Essential Guide to Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2013). The paperback version is available from the UMass Lowell bookstore. Selected chapters posted in Course Reading: Articles. You'll need the password.