Chapter 11 - Strategies of Inquiry

Question 1

What is the narrative strategy?

Answer 1

The study of an individual. May shed light on the identities of individuals and how they see themselves.

Question 2

How does the narrative strategy emerge?

Answer 2

Stories of individual experiences. Emerges through interaction/dialogue between researcher and participants?

Question 3

Who will be in a narrative study?

Answer 3

Captures experiences of a single individual or small number of individual.

Question 4

What is the phenomenology strategy?

Answer 4

Describes the meaning of lived experiences for individuals about a phenomenon (single concept or idea).

Question 5

What does a phenomenology strategy explore?

Answer 5

Explore experiences with a phenomenon to understand the essence of the experience.

Question 6

Who will be in a phenomenology study?

Answer 6

A group of individuals who have experienced the phenomenon. Typically 3 or 4 individuals (up to 10-15).

Question 7

What is the ethnography strategy?

Answer 7

Describing and interpreting a cultural or social group. Looking for meaning.

Question 8

What is the goal of the ethnography strategy?

Answer 8

To develop a complex, complete description of the culture of a group. The final product is a holistic cultural portrait.

Question 9

Who will be in an ethnography study?

Answer 9

A group that shares the same culture and is intact and interacts. Might be smaller or larger.

Question 10

What is the case study strategy?

Answer 10

The in-depth description of a case or multiple cases over time through detailed, in depth data collection involving multiple sources of rich info.

Question 11

Who will be in a case study?

Answer 11

A single case or multiple cases involving an individual, small group, institution, or event.

Question 12

What is the grounded theory strategy?

Answer 12

To generate a theory form the data. The focus is directed on the process or action the researcher is attempting to understand.

Question 13

What is the goal of the grounded theory strategy?

Answer 13

The goal is to discover a unified theoretical explanation.

Question 14

Who will be in a grounded theory study?

Answer 14

All study participants who have experienced the process or action.

Question 15

What are the different reasons for using qualitative research?

Answer 15

1. When a problem/issue needs to be explored.
2. When a complex/detailed understanding of an issue is wanted.
3. To identify variables that cannot be easily measured.
4. When a group needs to be studied.
5. To hear silenced voices.
6. To develop theories.