Chapter 19: Constructivist Instructional Design: Creating a Multimedia Package for Teaching Critical Qualitative Research

Webb and Glesne (1992) attest that

They add that qualitative research has emerged in education and brought about the birth of new courses, programs, and special interest groups in the area. In the past, few textbooks dealt specifically with qualitative research. Now there are many texts on qualitative research, such as Denzin and Lincoln's (1994)Handbook of Qualitative Research and Carspecken's (1996)Critical Ethnography in Educational Research: A Theoretical and Practical Guide . However, teaching qualitative research in graduate programs can be difficult for a number of reasons. As a relative newcomer to the group of research methods courses taken by graduate students in education and psychology, the literature is scant on approaches to teaching qualitative methods. It is new in two ways: (1) the actual methods of data collection and analysis and (2) the underlying assumptions and epistemologies are often both complex and contradictory to the content students learned in other courses. According to Web and Glesne (1992) a wide variety of approaches are used and many instructors experience difficulty because the subject matter is complex and unfamiliar.