Table of Contents

Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Preface

On Diversity

On Tradition

On Reflexive Dialogical Practice

Final Thoughts

List of Tables and Figures

Table 1.1: Modes of Thinking for Qualitative Data Analysis page xx

Table 4.1: Two Approaches to Dialectical Thinking in Practice page xx

Figure 1.1: Modes of Thinking in Dynamic Relation page xx

Figure 2.1: Connecting Categories to Concepts page xx

Figure 3.1: Dimensions of Plot page xx

Figure 4.1: Dialectical Friction and Emergence page xx

Figure 5.1: Poetics as Infinite Dialogue page xx

Figure 6.1: A Phenomenon Becoming page xx

About the Author

Melissa Freeman is Professor of Qualitative Research Methodologies in the College of Education at The University of Georgia.

Reviews

"We’ve long needed this book, a book which would take students and scholars alike through the complex process of doing qualitative analysis. Melissa Freeman’s Modes of Thinking for Qualitative Data Analysis meets these needs. Its creative, comparative focus on forms of thinking, from categorical, to narrative, dialectical, poetical, diagrammatical, opens new windows on how to interpret empirical material." – Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign"Melissa Freeman has developed a compelling typology for understanding qualitative work... Her work counters the standard classifications which connect methods with a particular methodology or tradition and leads to confusion. Instead, she argues persuasively, and with examples, that for a truly reflexive stance and a critical understanding of research, researchers must engage in "pentimento," or must see again, to understand essences and create innovative possibilities." - Lynn Butler-Kisber, McGill University