Citation: Ravitch, S.M. & Riggan, M. (2012). Reason & rigor: How conceptual frameworks guide research. Los Angeles: Sage. This document provides a chapter outline covering the topics in this book (Edition 1). I created this for Stanford Education 424- a class for students starting out their careers in Education Research and learning how to write a conceptual framework.

1. Reason and Rigor: Outline by Topic
Citation: Ravitch, S.M. & Riggan, M. (2012). Reason & rigor: How conceptual frameworks guide research. Los
Angeles: Sage.
Chapter topics
(MBZ: My edition not the most current? Link to Sage info for current edition- chapters are different)
Chapter 1
• Definition of CF
• Elements of CF
Chapter 2
• Role of theory
• Literature review
Chapter 3
• CF and research questions
• Qualitative
• James Spillane- Ed Policy
o “Local Theories of Teacher Change”
Chapter 4
• CF in data collection and field work
• Qualitative
• Michelle Fine- Feminist and critical race theory in education
o Youth participatory action research, youth development
§ Identity
§ Muslim American youth
Chapter 5
• CF and data analysis
• Qualitative
• Fred Erickson-Anthropology of Education
o Human interaction analysis
§ Social interaction as a learning environment
§ Zone of Proximal Development and neovygotskian analysis of understanding classroom
through analysis of interactions
Chapter 6
• CF and findings
• Quantitative
• Margaret Beale Spencer- Social Psychology
o Race and social class inequality
o Ecological systems theory and phenomenology
§ Phenomenological Variant of Self Organization Theory (PVEST)
§ Introducing self- organization and individual agency within a systems approach to
understanding variation in individual outcomes related to economic inequality
Chapter 7
• Developing a CF
o Self and audience
o Making and breaking plans
o The conversation: from listening to speaking
o Strategies and Exercises for Developing CF