The Good, the Bad, and the Data

Sally Campbell Galman is Associate Professor of Child and Family Studies in the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA. She received her PhD from the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA and is a graduate of Grinnell College and Punahou School. An anthropologist of education, she is especially interested in how culture intersects with people's experiences of gender, childhood and care-work in primary schools and families. Galman is author of the introductory qualitative researcher textbook-as-comic Shane, the Lone Ethnographer: A Beginner's Guide to Ethnography, the research volume Wise and Foolish Virgins: White Women at Work in the Feminized World of Primary School Teaching, and numerous articles in scholarly journals.

Preface1. Showdown at the Coffeehouse (Introduction)2. On the Trail of the Lonesome Data Analyst: An overview of qualitative analytic strategy and assumptions3. They Coded With Their Boots On: Coding 1014. Write, Vaquero! Writing about data5. The Great Train Robbery: Doing basic narrative analysis6. The Discourse Kid: Doing basic discourse analysis7. Sure is Purdy, But Can You Eat It? Understanding and analyzing unwieldy data8. Calamity Shane! What to do when you suddenly realize something ain't right.9. Time to Hit the Old, Dusty Audit Trail: Reliability and validity concerns10. Return to the Cookbook of the Sierra Madre: Putting it all togetherAppendix: Shovels, Six-Guns and Spurs: Technology from PCs to Post-itsWorks Cited and Other Important Things for Further ReadingAbout the Author