Research

• QUALITATIVE - interpretation based
• QUALITATIVE -descriptive
• QUALITATIVE - open-minded
• QUALITATIVE - observation
• QUANTITATIVE -numbers based
• Qualitative Research Designs

  Ethnographic Research, Phenomenological Research, Grounded Theory, Historical Research, Case Study
• Ethnographic Research - Observation is the most common approach. The researcher becomes immersed in the culture as an active participant.
• Ethnographic Research - Studies people in their natural environment. It is a descriptive account of social life and culture within a defined social system.
• Ethnographic Research - Rather than relying on interviews or surveys, researchers experience the environment firsthand, and sometimes called as a participant observer.
• Phenomenological Research - Seeks to answer the question, "What is it like to experience such and such?"
•  Phenomenological Research - Emphasizes a focus on people's subjective experiences and interpretations of the world. It aims to understand how the world appears to others.
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  Phenomenological Research - Multiple interviews are the common data gathering techniques used in this type of research.
• Grounded Theory - It is an approach for looking systematically qualitative data (like transcripts of interviews or protocols of observations) aiming at the generation of theories.
• Grounded Theory - Its main purpose is to generate, or discover, a theory. The theory is discovered, developed and provisionally verified through systematic data collection (Glaser & Strauss, 1967).

   
• Grounded Theory - Originally developed by Glaser and Strauss in the 1960s.
• Historical Research - Employed by researchers who are interested in reporting events of the past.
• Historical Research - It describes and examines events of the past to understand the present and anticipate potential future effects.
• Historical Research - Historians use primary sources or evidences to research.
• Case study - is a combination of data gathering techniques.
• Case study - often observation, list the questions to be used in the case study.
• case study - describing in-depth experiences of one person. family, group, community, or institution.