Series Editor's Foreword / Edward Beauchamp -- Foreword / Patricia Broadfoot -- Ch. 1. Qualitative Research in Developing Countries: Issues and Experience / Michael Crossley and Graham Vulliamy -- Ch. 2. Integrating Paradigms in Educational Research: Issues of Quantity and Quality in Poor Countries / Rosemary Preston -- Ch. 3. Qualitative Research and Educational Policy-Making: Approaching the Reality in Developing Countries / Cheng Kai-ming -- Ch. 4. The Importance of Fieldwork: Anthropology and Education in Papua New Guinea / Wayne Fife -- Ch. 5. Using Documents for Qualitative Educational Research in Africa / Clive Harber -- Ch. 6. Interviews and the Study of School Management: An International Perspective / Lynn Davies -- Ch. 7. Improving Our Practice: Collaborative Classroom Action Research in Lesotho / Janet Stuart, Mahlape Morojele and Pulane Lefoka -- Ch. 8. Dilemmas of Insider Research in a Small-Country Setting: Tertiary Education in St. Lucia / Pearlette Louisy