Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln -- About the editors -- About the contributors -- Introduction: the discipline and practice of qualitative research -- Revitalizing universities by reinventing the social sciences : bildung and action research / Morten Levin and Davydd Greenwood -- A history of qualitative inquiry in social and educational research / Frederick Erickson -- Ethics and politics in qualitative research / Clifford Christians -- Ethics, research regulations, and critical social science / Gaile Cannella and Yvonna S. Lincoln -- Paradigms and perspectives in contention -- Paradigmatic controversies, contradictions, and emerging confluences, revisited / Egon G. Guba and Yvonna S. Lincoln, with additional material by Susan A. Lynham -- Feminist qualitative research in the millenium?s first decade : developments, challenges, prospects / Virgina Olesen -- The sacred and spiritual nature of endarkened transnational feminist praxis in qualitative research / Cynthia B. Dillard and Chinwe Okpalaoka -- Critical pedagogy, and qualitative research : moving to the bricolage / Joe L. Kincheloe, Peter McLaren and Shirley Steinberg -- Cultural studies : performative imperatives and bodily articulations / Michael D. Giardina and Josh L. Newman -- Critical humanism and queer theory : living with the tensions postscript 2011 to living with the contradictions / Ken Plummer -- Asian epistemologies and contemporary social psychological research / James Liu -- Disability communities : transformative research for social justice / Donna Mertens, Martin Sullivan and Hilary Stace -- The future of qualitative research -- Qualitative futures : where we might go from where we've been / Judith Preissle -- Teaching qualitative research / Margaret Eisenhart and S. Jurow -- Author index -- Subject index.