Class Activities

A Note from the Instructor’s Manual Authors on Guest Contributor Activities

In including the following set of guest contributor activities, we illustrate the diverse ways creative activities can enrich a qualitative methods course for undergraduate and graduate students.  For this part of our manual, we invited leading junior and senior professors and graduate students who specialize in qualitative methods from a variety of backgrounds to plan group assignments, video explorations, paper projects, homework, in-class discussions, performances, and more.

We placed activities in correlation with specific chapters and have titled them this way for your convenience (e.g., Chapter 10-Manning-A Typology Would be Music to My Eyes). Sometimes activities explicitly address the chapter to which we have assigned them. In other instances, the choice was more arbitrary as parts of the activity could have been placed in a number of chapters. As a result of this organizing format, we invite you to preview all of the activities in planning your course, as you may find you would like to use an activity sooner than we have it featured in the manual.

We appreciate all of our contributors, and we are grateful for their support of the book and the manual with their authorship of these valuable pedagogical tools. Thank you so much for your contributions: Mara Adelman, Kevin Barge, Paul Board, Roberta Chevrette, Summer Cunningham, Sarah Amira de la Garza, Sarah Dempsey, Shirley Drew, Carolyn Ellis, James Michael Fortney, Larry Frey, Patricia Geist-Martin, Bud Goodall, Aaron Hess, Kurt Lindemann, Jimmie Manning, Kathy Miller, Chris Patti, Chris Poulos, Desireé Rowe, Allie Rowland, Miriam Sobre-Denton, Karen Stewart, and Charee Mooney Thompson.