Includes bibliographical references and index.

Empowering students of qualitative research to take charge of their academic writing / Janet C. Richards -- A mindfulness-based approach to teaching qualitative research methods / Margrit Schreier -- Empowerment through understanding the interaction between philosophical stance (positionality) and qualitative research / Suzanne Franco and Erin B. Lunday -- An inaugural interviewing course : promoting continuous reflexivity, balancing theory and skills, building a community of learners / Anna Gonzalez-Pliss and Alisha M. B. Braun -- From opportunities to realities : on being empowered through active learning in educational research / Yew-Jin Lee -- A framework for niching scholarship and expanding competency in arts-based research / Steve Haberlin -- Transmediation of Qualitative text information : encouraging students to employ special aptitudes and talents / Kia Sarnoff -- Simulations as a teaching method / Christy Bebeau -- How andragogy principles of teaching empowered me : the perspective of a high-achieving nontraditional black male student / William D. Thomas -- Empowerment through apprenticeship in the teaching of research methods / Wolf-Michael Roth -- Living the praxis of method, or how i learned letting worldly practices organize my professional gaze as scholar / Alfredo Jornet -- Adoption and long-term personal effects of reflexive grounded theory / Franz Breuer.

"Qualitative research instructors seek information to help students actively engage in qualitative inquiry. They desire to learn about innovative, constructivist approaches that connect and empower students as a community of learners. Empowering Students as Self-Directed Learners of Qualitative Research Methods meets these needs with practices and approaches instructors may use to position students as active, empowered, self-directed learners who learn to do qualitative research by doing qualitative research. Students will find this book useful because it includes authentic student work, student reflections, factual classroom scenarios depicting professors guiding students as they devise research questions and determine the qualitative genre to best answer those questions as well as a chapter that includes a checklist to help students plan, revise, and edit the academic writing critical for communicating qualitative research. The book blends the thoughts of international scholars with the voices of students of qualitative research methods who participated in the transformative practices described in the book. The collective ideas meet the instructional, cultural, and psychological needs of diverse learners, including students from various disciplines, exceptionally able students, those with creative and artistic aptitudes, those from marginalized populations, English language learners, and those who struggle to master qualitative research methods".