Course Description
Theories in qualitative research design and conduct. Theories commonly used in qualitative approaches to educational problems and issues; sociocultural, psychosocial, critical, feminist, and postmodern theories.
Athena Title
THEORIE QUAL DESIGN
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in ERSH 8510
Semester Course Offered
Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
1. Develop an understanding of the relationship of theorizing to the research process through an examination of a variety of theoretical orientations. 2. Formulate ways to compare and contrast different approaches to human inquiry: positivist, postpositivist, critical, feminist, postmodern, and others. 3. Identify the origins and developments of these varying approaches, underlying values and assumptions, and their strengths and limitations. 4. Analyze the basic assumptions and implications of the identified research traditions and specify the interrelationships among them. What assumptions about reality, knowledge, and value does each tradition entail?
Topical Outline
1. Definitions of theory 2. Reading theory 3. Relationship of theory to research methodologies 4. Exploring the language of theory 5. Phenomenology 6. Constructivism 7. Symbolic Interactionism 8. Activity Theory 9. Critical Theory 10. Critical Race Theory 11. Queer Theory 12. Feminist Theories 13. Poststructural Theories