M1: Kinds of Qualitative Research

• Narrative

  • you will be telling stories on the life of persons as your topic.
  • Other researchers would capture special items and artifacts that have significant value to the person like letters, awards or trophies, photographs and items that are valued, sentimental and sources of life experiences to the person.

  Ex. Life of the first Mindanaoan president; A woman leader icon
• Phenomenological

  • This type of research attempts to find the meanings to an experience of several individuals who were witnesses.
  • Your gaining interest on Phenomenological is the shared experiences of people to an incident

  Examples: Earthquake anxieties; Surviving a lockdown
• Grounded Theory

  • is advantageous at determining what actually happens.
  • The method of this research is to gather and analyze the information before coming up with a theory (that is "grounded" from the data).
  • This means it attempts to understand the experiences of the participants by withholding any assumption until it is confirmed.
  • This type of research is always in the process and development of a theory through a repetition of testing and validating.

  Examples: Fraternity and Sorority beliefs; "Teacher-favorites"
• Ethnographic

  • type of research looks into understanding a community of an indigenous people.
  • describes the social events, processes, rules and conventions to produce a comprehensive account of a particular culture to a theoretical background.
  • The challenges that researchers. an encounter in the lack of literature especially if the tribe is not mainstream. Access to the cultural group may also require one or more individuals from the tribe to enter.

  Examples: Farming methods of B'laan Tribe; Marital ceremony of Mandaya tribe
• Case study

  • explores an issue thoroughly.
  • In finding pieces of information, there are angles to look at such as the history of the case, the chronology and the series of events are important.
  • A researcher will have to go through detailed and in-depth data collection over time from different sources of information such as interviews, records, documenta, reports, observations, evidences and artefacts.
  • The subject can be person, activity, event or program.

  Examples: Bullying in the classroom, Absenteeism
• THE FIVE KINDS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH are the following:

  1. Narrative research
  2. Phenomenology
  3. Grounded Theory
  4. Ethnography
  5. Case Study
• Narrative research

  • focuses on the stories and the life of individuals and arranges them in events in chronological order.
• Phenomenology

  • describes the essence of an experience of the phenomenon or incident of several individuals.
• Grounded Theory

  • centers on understanding an experience of many individuals by experimenting possible theories that is grounded in data from the field.
• Ethnography

  • focuses on the setting of the individual's stories within a particular culture.
• Case Study

  • focuses on an issue selected for the researcher to gather a detailed description of the setting of the case.