Transforming qualitative data : description, analysis, and interpretation / Harry F. Wolcott.

1. Something Old, Something New. 2. Description, Analysis, and Interpretation in Qualitative Inquiry
pt. I. Emphasis on Description. 3. Adequate Schools and Inadequate Education: The Life History of a Sneaky Kid. 4. The Elementary School Principal: Notes From a Field Study. 5. Confessions of a "Trained" Observer
pt. II. Emphasis on Analysis. 6. A Malay Village That Progress Chose: Sungai Lui and the Institute of Cultural Affairs. 7. Life's Not Working: Cultural Alternatives to Career Alternatives
pt. III. Emphasis on Interpretation. 8. The Teacher as an Enemy. 9. Afterword, 1989: A Kwakiutl Village and School 25 Years Later. 10. The Acquisition of Culture: Notes on a Working Paper. 11. On Seeking
and Rejecting
Validity in Qualitative Research
pt. IV. Teaching and Learning Qualitative Inquiry. 12. Teaching Qualitative Inquiry. 13. Learning Quantitative Inquiry. 14. Some Power of Reasoning, Much Aided
Appendix: Qualitative Dissertations Completed by the Author's Doctoral Advisees.