Geography

Reflections on teaching qualitative methods in geography

Document Type

Book Chapter

Abstract

"After a heyday of dominance in the 1950s and 1960s, quantitative methods have been joined by an increased use of qualitative methods in research (Eyles and Smith, 1998; Limb and Dwyer, 2001; Hay, 2005; DeLyser, 2008). Indeed, Iain Hay (2005: 10) argues that, ‘In the last twenty-five years the pendulum of geographical methods within human geography has swung firmly from quantitative to qualitative methods … Qualitative methods have been in the ascendant since the 1980s.’ Further evidence of this trend is the growing membership of the Qualitative Research Specialty Group (QRSG) of the Association of American Geographers (AAG): it was established in 2000 with ..."

Publication Title

The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Geography

Publication Date

1-1-2010

First Page

406

Last Page

417

ISBN

9780857021090

DOI

10.4135/9780857021090.n26

Keywords

epistemology, geography, knowledge, knowledge, methodology, methods courses, qualitative geography, qualitative geography, qualitative methods, qualitative research, qualitative research methods, quantitative methods, research ethics, students, teaching, teaching methods, theory of knowledge

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