Contents // Introduction: An Intensive Study of Case Study Research Methods xi // Orientation, Assignment to read Harper report, note to instructors, suggestions for reading assignments, acknowledgments xii // 1. The Unique Case 1 // Intrinsic and instrumental study, Nature of the case, collective case study 3 // Selection of cases, Choosing Harper, representativeness 4 // Producing generalizations, Petite and grand, particularity 1 // Emphasis on interpretation, Foreshadowing questions, observations, assertions 8 // Workshop: Criteria for selection of cases 13 // 2. Research Questions 15 // Conceptual structure, Problems within contexts 16 Stating issues, Facilitating organizations and reporting 18 // Evolution of issue questions, Progressive focussing, etic and ernie issues 20 // Topical information questions, Issues for NCTM Standards 25 // Questions calling for coded data, Flanders, interaction analysis, computer coding 29 // Workshop: Observe “Examination” 33 // 3. The Nature of Qualitative Research 35 // Experiential understanding, History, Dilthey, explanation and understanding, thick description 37 // Interpretation as method, Assertions 40 // Other characteristics of qualitative research, Scales and episodes, patterns, narratives 43 // Recognition of faults, Subjectivity, cost 45 // Workshop: More or less special characteristics 47 // 4. Data Gathering 49 // Organizing the data gathering, CSSE observation guide, checklists, data sources 51 // Access and permissions,
Confidentiality, terminating fieldwork, ethics 57 // Observation, Bill Love’s class, logs, taping 60 // Description of contexts, Vicarious experience 63 // Interview, Surrogate observers, piloting, immediate write-up 64 // Document review, Search for issue-related data 68 // Workshop: Interview observers of an interview 69 // 5. Analysis and Interpretation 71 // Categorical aggregation or direct interpretation, The Thought Fox, protocols 74 // Correspondence and patterns, Coding and issue identification, Larry Eckerts art class, winnowing 78 // Naturalistic generalizations, Reader population of cases as basis for generalization, vicarious experience 85 // Workshop: Analyze Mexico City classroom observation 88 // 6. Case Researcher Roles 91 // The case researcher as teacher, Anticipating reader needs 91 // The case researcher as advocate, Jonathan Kozol, researcher values 93 // The case researcher as evaluator, Quality and effectiveness 95 // The case researcher as biographer, Life histories 96 // The case researcher as interpreter, René Magritte 97 // Constructivism, Three realities, the rationalist-constructivist view 99 // Relativity, Contextuality, other role choices, ethics 102 // Workshop: Fieldwork implication of roles 104 // 7. Triangulation 107 // Validation, Consequential validity, navigation 108 // Targets for triangulation, Uncontestable description, need for triangulation 110 // Triangulation protocols, Norman Denzin, Campbell