Types of Qualitative Research

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studies the lives of individuals and ask one or more individuals to provide stories about their lives

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narrative research

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sources of narrative research

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• interviews
• observations through shadowing
• documents
• artifacts

Question 3

the systematic collection and evaluation of data to describe explain and thereby understand actions or events that occurred sometime in the past

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historical research

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purposes of historical research

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1. awareness of the past to learn from the failures and successes
2. things done in the past the applicability of these to the present
3. assist in prediction
4. test hypotheses to see trends or relationships
5. to understand the present educational practices and policies

Question 5

types of sources for historical research

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• Documents
• Numerical Records
• Oral Statements
• Relics

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the source is a direct witness to the event

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primary sources

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the source is obtains their description from someone else

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secondary sources

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explores a real life or contemporary bound system or multiple bound systems over time through detail and depth data collection involving multiple sources of information and reports a case description and case themes

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case study

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case studies are based on a case as a unit of analysis

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case unit

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cases in a case study

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individuals
organizations
processes
programs
neighborhoods
institutions
events

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types of case studies

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single instrumental case study
collective or multiple case study
intrinsic case study

Question 12

a research question a puzzlement a need for general understanding and a feel that we may get inside into the question by studying a particular case

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single instrumental case study

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a research question a puzzlement a need for general understanding and a feel that we may get inside into the question by studying a particular group

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collective/multiple case study

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the focus is on its case itself because the case presents an unusual or unique situation

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intrinsic case study

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sources for a case study

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Documents
Archival Records
Interviews
Direct Observation
Participant Observation
Physical Artifacts

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describes the common meaning for several individuals of their live experience of a concept or phenomenon

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phenomenology research

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key characteristics of a phenomenology research

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• rich and detailed descriptions of a phenomenon
• presents how the participants experience the phenomenon

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Types of Phenomenology Research

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Hermeneutic Phenomenology
Transcendental Phenomenology

Question 19

oriented towards lived experiences and interpreting the text of life

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Hermeneutic Phenomenology

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focus less on the interpretations of the research and more on a description of the experience of the participants

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transcendental phenomenology

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process for a phenomenology research

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• phenomenological reduction
• bracketing/epoche
• imaginative variation
• developing a statement from the composite and structural descriptions that reveal the essence of the phenomenon from a variety of perspectives

Question 22

study of the meaning of the behaviors languages and the interactions among members of the culture shaping group

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ethnography

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behaviors and ideas

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culture

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groups history social structure politics religious beliefs symbols rituals and environment

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holistic perspective

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what was seen or heard was put into a larger perspective

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contextualization

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insiders perspective of reality

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emic perspective

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external objects perspective on reality

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Etic perspective

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great detail of what was seen or heard

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Thick description

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participant's review of what the researchers have written

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member checking

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research team

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critical colleagues

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refrains from making value judgments about unfamiliar practices

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non judgemental orientation

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types of field notes

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1. field jotting 2. field diary 3. Field Log 4. Reflective Field Notes

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the inquiry generates a general explanation of a process an action or an interaction shaped by the views of a larger number of participants

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grounded theory

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characteristics of grounded theory

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PRO-DE-ME-DA-IND 1. process or an action that has distinct steps or phases over time 2. develop a theory of the process or action in the end 3. Memoing 4. data and analysis are undertaken simultaneously and iteratively 5. inductive procedures

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data sources of grounded theory

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interviewing observations document group discussions