Contents: 1. Introduction: Using qualitative research methods for educational research / Michael R.M. Ward and Sara Delamont -- Part I. Theories, disciplines and standpoints -- 2. Sociology of education / Sara Delamont -- 3. Methodologies for an anthropology of education / Marta Sánchez -- 4. History and ethnography: Interfaces and juxtapositions / Maria Tamboukou -- 5. Feminist perspectives on qualitative educational research / Alexandra Allan -- 6. Critical race theory methods in educational research: Examples from iceland / Brynja Elísabeth Halldórsdóttir and Jón Ingvar Kjaran -- 7. Queer theories and unruly educational research / Lisa W. Loutzenheiser -- 8. Indigenous research methods / Russell Bishop -- 9. Ethics and qualitative research / Gideon Calder -- 10. Researching educational processes through time: The value of qualitative longitudinal methods / Bren Neale -- Part II. Research settings -- 11. Researching technical and vocational education and training in a uk context: Classic works and contemporary concerns / Liz Atkins -- 12. Striving, surviving, arriving and thriving: Qualitative research on professional education / Michael Thomas -- 13. Dynamic qualitative methods: Attending to place, space and time in higher education / Kirsty Finn and Mark Holton -- 14. Teacher education / Mark Dressman, Wayne Journell and Jay Mann -- 15. Apprenticeship: Toward a reflexive method for researching 'education in "non-formal" settings' / Wolff-Michael Roth -- 16. Online, offline, hybrid, or blended? Doing ethnographies of education in a digitally-mediated world / Jonathan Tummons -- 17. Accounting for social and cultural differences in qualitative research with adult learners / Toni Kosonen -- 18. Why a playwork perspective on play suits a qualitative research paradigm / Pete King -- 19. Gypsies and other homeschoolers: The challenges of researching an alternative education / Martin Myers -- 20. Critical and 'connected' ethnography: The case of an entrepreneurial academy / Kirsty Morrin -- Part III. Data collection -- 21. Sandboxing: A creative approach to qualitative research in education / Dawn Mannay and Catt Turney -- 22. Schools in focus: Photo methods in educational research / Louisa Allen -- 23. Mobile methods / Margarethe Kusenbach -- 24. The uses and usefulness of life history / Randall F. Clemens and William G. Tierney -- 25. Gathering narrative data / Jane Elliott -- 26. Documents as data: Burrowing into the heart of educational institutions / Aimee Grant -- 27. Traditional or 'peopled' ethnography: From process to product / Alex McInch -- 28. Autoethnography in education / Susanne Gannon -- 29. Interviews with individuals / Amir Marvasti and Sam Tanner -- 30. Using focus groups / Jude Robinson -- 31. Online methods in educational research / James Robson -- 32. Art, social justice and critical pedagogy in educational research: 'the portrait of an artist as a young person' / Sadia Habib -- Part IV. Analysis and representation -- 33. Transcription of speech / Martyn Hammersley -- 34. Analysing narratives: The narrative construction of professional identity / Cate Watson and Connie Mcluckie -- 35. Approaching narrative analysis: 28 questions / Martin Cortazzi and Lixian Jin -- 36. Analyzing fieldnotes: A practical guide / Zoë B. Corwin and Randall F. Clemens -- 37. Using software to support qualitative data analysis / Trena M. Paulus and Jessica N. Lester -- 38. Reflexive thematic analysis / Gareth Terry and Nikki Hayfield -- 39. Textual genres: And the challenge of 'presencing' the world / Margaret J. Somerville -- 40. Dance: Making movement meaningful / Carl Bagley and Ricardo Castro-Salazar -- 41. Performing findings: Tales of the theatrical self / Rachel Holmes -- 42. From voice: To active/voice within spaces of difference / Andrew Gitlin -- 43. Elicited metaphor analysis: Researching teaching and learning / Martin Cortazzi and Lixian Jin -- Index.