The Weekly Qualitative Report

ISSN 1945-2853

Volume 2, Number 8

February 23, 2009

URL: http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/WQR/wqr2_8.html

 

The Qualitative Report Article of the Week

 

A Qualitative Study of the Achievement Goals of Recreational Exercise Participants

Helen Rogers, Tony Morris, and Melissa Moore
Victoria University, Melbourne Australia

The Weekly Review

 

Bringing Together a Community of Voices to Debate a Growing Challenge: A Review of Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Evidence

Dan Wulff
The University of Calgary, Alberta Canada

 

Qualitative Research Resource of the Week

 

Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy (PCSP) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal and database providing innovative, quantitative and qualitative knowledge about psychotherapy process and outcome, for both researchers and practitioners. The editors of PCSP believe that the scholarship, sophistication, vitality, and pragmatic import of the recent work in case study method, along with the power of electronic publishing and searchable databases, permits the field of professional psychology to take a major leap forward towards the integration of theory, research and practice.

NSU Announces New Online Graduate

Qualitative Research Certificate Program

 

The NSU Graduate Qualitative Research Certificate Program consists of eight three-credit hour online courses designed to prepare academics, professional research consultants, and graduate students to understand a variety of qualitative research approaches and to conduct qualitative research studies. Applications for summer 2009 courses are now being accepted.

The Qualitative Report Added to Scopus

The editors of The Qualitative Report are pleased to announce the journal has been accepted for addition in Scopus by the Content Selection and Advisory Board. Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database; one of the largest in the world. By being indexed in Scopus, TQR is made more visible to millions of users every day and this inclusion will also allow for simply find, check, and track citation data year by year and in real-time for its articles.

New and Notable Qualitative Research Articles

  • Chawla, D. (2008). Poetic arrivals and departures: Bodying the ethnographic field in verse. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 9(2), Art. 24 Full Text
  • Falzone, P. (2008). Speaking (un)truth to power: Fish tales from the ethnographic front. Transforming Anthropology, 16(1), 55-67. Abstract
  • Friesen, N., & Hopkins, J. (2008). Wikiversity; or education meets the free culture movement: An ethnographic investigation. First Monday, 13(10). Full Text
  • Hickey, A., & Austin, J. (2008). Digitally democratizing the new ethnographic endeavour: Getting thicker around the Geertz? International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 3(1), 257-266. Abstract
  • Putney, L. G., & Frank, C. R. (2008). Looking through ethnographic eyes at classrooms acting as cultures. Ethnography and Education, 3(2), 211-228. Abstract
  • Saldana, J. (2009). The coding manual for qualitative researchers. Thousand Oaks, CA: SageDescription
  • Su, Y-C. (2008). Promoting cross-cultural awareness and understanding: Incorporating ethnographic interviews in college EFL classes in Taiwan. Educational Studies, 34(4), 377-398. Abstract

Qualitative Research Employment Openings

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