Identified Qualitative Strategies in Educational Research - Wolcott 

Ethnography

Ethnology

Anthropological life history

Community Study

Microethnography

Ethnography of Communication

Ethnomethodology

Conversation Analysis

Phenomenology

Poststructuralism

Connoisseurship

Human ethology

Observer Study

Nonreactive (unobtrusive research)

Investigative journalism

Biography

Oral history

Literary Criticism

Philosophy

Content analysis

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Wolcott, HF. (1982). Differing styles of on-site research, or "If it isn't ethnography, what is it?" The Review Journal of Philosohphy and Social Science, 7 (1&2) pp. 154-169.

Wolcott, HF. (1992). Posturing in qualitative inquiry. In MD LeCompte, WL Millroy & J Preissle, (Eds.) The Handbook of Qualitative Research in Education (pp. 3-52). New York: Academic Press.

We found Wolcott's Figure "Qualitative Strategies in Educational Research (1992) in Miles, MB and Huberman, AM. (1994). Qualitative Data Analysis (pp. 6). Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications.

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