I've reviewed past EDDE 206 readings and browsed through these 2 valuable books: The Foundations of Research by Jonathan Grix and Conceptualizing and Proposing Qualitative Research by Schram. Funny how I'm now seeing and making sense out of these cuz obviously, I have a clearer sense of purpose for this change of topic which is now on virtual communities.
I also think that perhaps with the rise of QUALI research as a viable methodology, it has influenced the way research is being taught and written about. The old books I've read during the earlier part of my Phd classes have a very linear, clear cut step by step manner of presenting the research process. My experience however did not match that at all. All these new readings and perhaps classic ones in the field of QUALI research shows the cyclical and dynamic process-- all because of the word we know to be as RESEARCH Paradigms. It indeed places your research at a certain perspective of looking at data, examining realities and their meanings and what these are for. It situates the research. Trala!
But I still need to get out of this pit: clarifying design, methodology and approach. Different books and readings are interchanging the use of methodology and approach. And so maybe...there is a method of gathering data and approach at looking at your data....a method of analysis and an approach of looking at your analysis of findings.
Case study, ethnography, grounded theory, phenomenology are all part of research approaches which can either be under a quali or quanti type of research.
Data gathering techniques are interviews, document analysis, FGD's, questionnaires, surveys. Where does narrative inquiry fall and what's the diff among these approaches?
Hmmm...
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