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In this updated version of her innovative book, author Valerie J. Janesick extends her dance and yoga metaphors to strengthen her argument that tapping into one's artistic side—the side that is more creative and less inhibited—is fundamental to realizing one's potential as a qualitative researcher. This Third Edition provides a series of exercises that are both imaginative and immensely practical in helping students to see the artistic side of research.
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Using dance and yoga metaphors to illustrate the idea of stretching one's potential as a researcher, Janesick (educational leadership and policy studies, U. of South Florida) explains how qualitative researchers and graduate students in methods courses can develop strong habits of mind and observation as well as interview skills to improve their research skills. This edition has a new focus on narrative and poetic writing, analysis, presentation of data, and reflective journaling. It uses John Dewey's habits of mind as a framework and has expanded chapters on the writing habit, observation, interviewing, the creative habit, and analysis. There is also a section on Internet inquiry and new samples and examples of student work have been incorporated along with some new exercises. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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