Although we have already touched on the Five types of qualitative research, it is worth revisiting these dimensions again. Even in minor discussion of these in class last week, many questions came to me regarding these types; not only regarding my current-upcoming research paper, but also for future papers, investigations, and queries. At the most general, these classifications made me think...."What constitutes a qualitative research study?" More specifically, "Can a Narrative approach be autobiographical?" "If so, is that really research?"
"Or egotism?" Would it be "realer" research if someone had another research write your story?
Or does that get closer to case study? And in those cases, the interviewee's must reveal a particular bent. Does that make it a more "ethnographic" study? And is it possible to do a qualitative research study without have an ethnographic implication-either implicit or explicit?
Much of the determination of what type/types of study one is doing is determined by the degree to which emphasizes an aspect, the conclusions one draws, the focus of implication, or the design of the research project.
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your questions are at the root of what drives "research" about research methods . . . I think you will like an Author miller quote that I found for my action research presentation . . .
ReplyDeleteThere is hardly a week that passes when I don’t ask the unanswerable question: what am I now convinced of that will turn out to be ridiculous? And yet one can’t forever stand on the shore; at some point, filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or concede that life is forever elsewhere. - Arthur Miller
see you soon!