The Idea of Equality and Qualitative Inquiry

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer Winter
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
The Political ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Core Element ◽  
Critical Qualitative Research ◽  
The Ideal

With his path-breaking The Qualitative Manifesto. A Call to Arms (2010), Norman Denzin calls for qualitative inquiry to be carried out with the aim of contributing to the empowerment of subjects involved in the research. He pleads passionately and vehemently in favor of a research process that is led by the ideal of social justice. My contribution wants to plead for making radical equality between researchers and research subjects a core element of qualitative inquiries as well. For this purpose, I will turn to the work of the French philosopher Jacques Rancière, who has been largely ignored in qualitative inquiry. His work, though, is of central importance for critical qualitative research. The idea of equality opens up a new and more profound understanding of politics that would allow us to specify the political meaning of qualitative studies in late capitalism more accurately.

scholarly journals Do It for the Culture: The Case for Memes in Qualitative Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 160940692110258
Author(s):  
Constance Iloh
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Cultural Relevance ◽  
Prominent Feature ◽  
Rapport Building ◽  
Everyday Communication ◽  
Remote Data

Memes are a prominent feature of global life in the 21st century. The author asserts that memes are significant to current and future qualitative research. In particular, the text establishes memes as: (a) part of everyday communication, expression, and explanation, thus useful in qualitative research; (b) valuable cultural units and symbols; (c) forms of rapport building and cultivating relational research; (d) approaches that bolster and sustain remote data collection; (e) methods that infuse agency, humor, and creativity into the research process. The author then showcases distinctive ways memes can be effectively incorporated in qualitative research pursuits and publications. The article concludes with the necessity of data collection and representation approaches that advance the meaningfulness and cultural-relevance of qualitative inquiry.

The Research Audit Trail: Methodological Guidance for Application in Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian Carcary
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Information Systems Management ◽  
Audit Trail ◽  
Research Outcomes ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Research Findings

The merits of qualitative research remain an issue of ongoing debate and investigation. Qualitative researchers emphasise issues such as credibility, dependability, and transferability in demonstrating the trustworthiness of their research outcomes. This refers to the extent to which the research outcomes are conceptually sound and serves as the basis for enabling other researchers to assess their value. Carcary (2009) proposed trustworthiness in qualitative inquiry could be established through developing a physical and intellectual research audit trail – a strategy that involves maintaining an audit of all key stages and theoretical, methodological, and analytical decisions, as well as documenting how a researcher’s thinking evolves throughout a research project. Since 2009, this publication has been cited in greater than 600 studies. The current paper provides an analysis of the use and value of the research audit trail, based on the author’s application of this strategy across diverse research projects in the field of Information Systems management over a ten year time period. Based on a critical reflection on insights gained through these projects, this paper provides an in‑depth discussion of a series of guidelines for developing and applying the research audit trail in practice. These guidelines advance existing thinking and provide practical recommendations in relation to maintaining a research audit trail throughout a research project. Based on these guidelines and the core issues that should be covered at a physical and intellectual research audit trail level, a checklist that can be tailored to each project’s context is provided to support novice researchers and those who are new to the research audit trail strategy. As such, this paper demonstrates commitment to rigor in qualitative research. It provides a practical contribution in terms of advancing guidelines and providing a supporting checklist for ensuring the quality and transparency of theoretical, methodological, and analytical processes in qualitative inquiry. Embedding these guidelines throughout the research process will promote critical reflection among researchers across all stages of qualitative research and, in tracing through the researcher’s logic, will provide the basis for enabling other researchers to independently assess whether the research findings can serve as a platform for further investigation.

Work/Think/Play/Birth/Death/Terror/Qualitative/Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (9) ◽  
pp. 712-719
Author(s):  
Jennifer R. Wolgemuth ◽  
Pauliina Rautio ◽  
Mirka Koro-Ljungberg ◽  
Travis M. Marn ◽  
Susan Nordstrom ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
American Educational Research Association ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Research Association ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Critical Qualitative Research ◽  
Birth Death

Inspired by work/think/play in qualitative research, we centered the idea of “play” in a qualitative research project to explore what proceeding from the idea of work/think/play might look like and accomplish. We pursued play in an experimental qualitative inquiry over dinner one night at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Our article centers on one work/think/play inquiry three of us conducted. Through a playful account of how play unfolded in our work/think/play inquiry that evening, we explore research play as generative, deadly, and censored in the context of neoliberalism and other terrors. We reflect on what (good) play does in qualitative research, what our work/think/play/birth/death/terror/qualitative/research accomplished, if anything. Maybe research play is vital, what keeps us fit to do critical qualitative research. Yet research play moves (well) beyond normative rules of much qualitative research. Is it worth the risk? Can we know? Even after?

Informing Client-Centred Practice through Qualitative Inquiry: Evaluating the Quality of Qualitative Research

2002 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 175-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Whalley Hammell
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Consumer Involvement ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Sufficient Information ◽  
Critical Scrutiny

Occupational therapists are increasingly embracing qualitative research methods yet little published advice exists in the occupational therapy literature to enable readers to gauge the quality and relevance of researchers' work. If qualitative research is to provide convincing evidence with which to inform theory and practice, it must be capable of withstanding critical scrutiny and practitioners must be given sufficient information with which to evaluate the strength and plausibility of the evidence reported. The process of undertaking qualitative research and of writing and critiquing subsequent reports is not about assessing adherence to rigid rules but of ensuring the appropriateness and thoroughness of data collection, analysis and reporting, given the nature and context of the issue. The espousal of a client-centred ethic also demands consideration of research relevance and usefulness to clients and the degree of consumer involvement throughout the research process. This paper examines an evaluative framework that may be used to assess the quality of qualitative evidence as this is both researched and reported. Recourse to a set of general strategies — used where appropriate – will serve to enhance the quality of qualitative research and assert its potential to inform the client-centred, evidence-based practice of occupational therapy.

Siapa Yang Membutuhkan RUU HIP

ADALAH ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anton Hariyadi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
National Development ◽  
The Political ◽  
Basic Law ◽  
Keywords Hip ◽  
State Administrators ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology ◽  
Instrumental Values ◽  
The Ideal

Abstract:The universal ideal values of Pancasila are derived from the domain of instrumental values in the realm of formation of laws and regulations, and how the ideal values of Pancasila are internalized into practical values in the life of society, nation, and state. Pancasila ideology is a guideline for state administrators in formulating and determining planning, implementation and evaluation of national development policies in the political, legal, economic, social, cultural, mental, spiritual, defense and security fields based on science and technology, and direction for all Indonesian citizens and residents. This research uses descriptive qualitative research methodology and refers to the basic law as one of the legal umbrella..Keywords: HIP Bill, Academic ManuscriptAbstrak:Nilai ideal Pancasila yang universal diderivasikan ke domain nilai-nilai instrumental dalam ranah pembentukan peraturan perundang-undangan, dan bagaimana nilai-nilai ideal Pancasila terinternalisasi ke dalam nilai-nilai praktis dalam kehidupan bermasyarakat, berbangsa, dan bernegara. Idelogi Pancasila adalah pedoman bagi penyelenggara negara dalam menyusun dan menetapkan perencanaan, pelaksanaan, dan evaluasi terhadap kebijakan pembangunan nasional di bidang politik, hukum, ekonomi, sosial, budaya, mental, spiritual, pertahanan, dan keamanan yang berlandaskan pada ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi, serta arah bagi seluruh warganegara dan penduduk Indonesia. Penelitian ini menggunakan metodologi penelitian deskriptif kualitatif dan merujuk pada undang-undang dasar sebagai salah satu payung hukumnya.Kata Kunci: RUU HIP, Naskah Akademik 

scholarly journals The unequal power relation in the final interpretation

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pernille Almlund
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Power Relation ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Final Interpretation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Meta Theory

This article addresses the power relation in qualitative research and especially the importance of taking into consideration the problematic aspects of the power relation when executing the final interpretation of qualitative research. The methodology literature examines the unequal power relation in qualitative research by focusing on how society has become an interview society and on the lack of equality in interviews. Although the literature recommends being aware of asymmetry between research participants, it fails to look at how to address the final interpretation of qualitative research if the interpretation also takes the unequal power relation into account. Consequently, interpreting the researched in a respectful manner is difficult. This article demonstrates the necessity of increasing awareness of the unequal power relation by posing, discussing and, to some extent answering, three methodological questions inspired by meta-theory that are significant for qualitative research and qualitative researchers to reflect on. This article concludes that respectful interpretation and consciously paying attention to the unequal power relation in the final interpretation require decentring the subject, dissociating from the ideal of intersubjectivity, being descriptive instead of normative, accepting the unconquerable distance between the researcher and the researched and looking at the entire research process and analyses as an undeniable coproduction and interpretation.

Learning through a Reunion of Mind-Body-Emotion-Spirits

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-431
Author(s):  
Chizuru Nobe-Ghelani
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Important Concept ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Critical Qualitative Research

While reflexivity has been taken up as an important concept in critical qualitative research, there are few texts that illustrate explicit approaches to practicing reflexivity. Drawing on my doctoral research experience, this article fills this gap and explores how the practice of mindfulness may guide us to a rich engagement with reflexivity during the critical qualitative research process, in particular within the context of interactions with research participants. More specifically, mindfulness is put forth as a practice to invite an embodied and holistic form of learning that goes beyond cognitive knowing. I argue that a mindfulness-based reflexivity has the potential to open up a space to learn from the messiness and discomfort experienced in the research process and deepen our understanding about the operation of power relations in critical qualitative research and beyond.

Learning through Doing

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 432-451
Author(s):  
Lisa V. Dias ◽  
Martyna A. Janjua
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
School Of Public Health ◽  
Letting Go ◽  
Epistemological Shifts

In this article, we discuss our experiences learning how to do Foucauldian discourse analysis as doctoral students situated in a school of public health. We mobilize language of “learning through doing” as we reflect on the struggles of conducting doctoral dissertation research. While challenging, these struggles have been productive because they have resulted in epistemological shifts. We explore the following pivotal learning moments that have been central to producing changes in our epistemological positions: (1) realizing there are no predetermined methodological templates, (2) letting go of positivist notions of bias and representativeness, (3) recognizing the iterative nature of the qualitative research process, and (4) experiencing the centrality of writing to qualitative inquiry. Our article recognizes the profound relevance of “doing” within the process of learning critical and interpretive approaches to qualitative research and in unlearning positivist ideas about the production of knowledge that dominate the field of public health.

Negotiating Power

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 394-412
Author(s):  
Karen Campbell ◽  
Corinne Hart
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Nursing Program ◽  
Student Experiences ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Qualitative Researcher ◽  
Critical Qualitative Research ◽  
Relational Factors

Learning to do qualitative research that is grounded in a critical perspective can be a turbulent time for graduate students and supervisors. The influence of power is omnipresent and can create significant problems for graduate student experiences. This article uses the graduate thesis research experience of one student and supervisor dyad to highlight the relational factors that we found to support learning: vulnerability, trust, and patience. For our dyad, negotiating the power structures surrounding us was one strategy that helped foster the development of a critical qualitative researcher. The relational factors that characterized our student-supervisor relationship, similar to those in the critical qualitative research process, provided a basis for discussion and growth through a graduate thesis in a nursing program.

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