The Practice of Designing Qualitative Research on Educational Leadership: Notes for Emerging Scholars and Practitioner-Scholars

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Knapp
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Educational Leadership ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
The Way

This article addresses a gap in methodological writing, concerning typical practice in designing qualitative inquiry, especially in research on educational leadership. The article focuses on how qualitative research designs are actually developed and explores implications for scholars’ work, especially for new scholars and for methods teachers. Working from methodological literature across multiple traditions, combined with the author’s experience designing qualitative studies and guiding emerging scholars and practitioner-scholars, the article describes alternative ways to develop viable designs, noting essential considerations and trade-offs along the way. While noting differences by tradition, the article emphasizes common patterns and implications shared by multiple traditions.

scholarly journals Leadership for Learning as Experience: Introducing the Use of Vignettes for Research on Leadership Experiences in Schools

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 160940691881640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Ammann
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Educational Leadership ◽  
Leadership Practices ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Leadership For Learning ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Leadership Experiences ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Educational Leadership Practices

Research on the link between educational leadership and student learning employs a variety of quantitative and qualitative research designs. Surprisingly, there are relatively few studies on methods for researching educational leadership practices. This article addresses this gap in research and discusses how the experiences of different participants can constitute potential starting points for learning processes. This leads to the question, how and to what extent the educational leadership practices manifest in students’ experiences and how “Leadership for Learning as Experience” can be empirically researched. The phenomenologically oriented vignette as research method for studying educational leadership practices will be introduced. Vignettes are narratives that are based on the experiences of participants. In vignettes, the co-experienced observations in the field are captured in form of vivid narratives. Vignettes thus open up a new, supplementary perspective, in which the traces that leadership practices have left on school participants are revealed.

scholarly journals Insights and Pitfalls: Selection Bias in Qualitative Research

1996 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Collier ◽  
James Mahoney
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Selection Bias ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Terms Of Trade ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
Real Issue ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Selection Of

Qualitative analysts have received stern warnings that the validity of their studies may be undermined by selection bias. This article provides an overview of this problem for qualitative researchers in the field of international and comparative studies, focusing on selection bias that may result from the deliberate selection of cases by the investigator. Examples are drawn from studies of revolution, international deterrence, the politics of inflation, international terms of trade, economic growth, and industrial competitiveness. The article first explores how insights about selection bias developed in quantitative research can most productively be applied in qualitative studies. The discussion considers why qualitative researchers need to be concerned about selection bias, even if they do not care about the generality of their findings, and it considers distinctive implications of this form of bias for qualitative research, as in the problem of what is labeled “complexification based on extreme cases.” The article then considers pitfalls in recent discussions of selection bias in qualitative studies. These discussions at times get bogged down in disagreements and misunderstandings over how the dependent variable is conceptualized and what the appropriate frame of comparison should be, issues that are crucial to the assessment of bias within a given study. At certain points it becomes clear that the real issue is not just selection bias, but a larger set of trade-offs among alternative analytic goals.

scholarly journals Queering Methodologies: Challenging Scientific Constraint in the Appreciation of Queer and Trans Subjects

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Ethics Research ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies ◽  
The Way

Qualitative studies require a queer perspective to challenge stagnant forms of scientific discourse. This paper argues for a deconstruction of hegemonic qualitative practices in order to appreciate and listen to queer and trans subjects when employing qualitative research and methodologies. I focus on qualitative methods from an audiovisual perspective to suggest that there is scientific constraint in the way researchers still approach qualitative methodologies. I propose some foundations for thinking about queer qualitative methods that employs queer theory in relation to a self - reflexive creative perspective towards ethics, research and representation. Moreover, I critically analyze the HBO trans documentary, Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She (Antony Thomas 2005), in order to move beyond complacent documentaries that employ interviews as a way of categorizing and containing gender diversity. I work towards future methodological promises for the exploration of queer and trans subjects. Further, this paper challenges the problems of imposing binary - based categories that not only obscure thorough understandings of gender but also perpetuate social injustice.

scholarly journals Using Emphasis-Purposeful Sampling-Phenomenon of Interest–Context (EPPiC) Framework to Reflect on Two Qualitative Research Designs and Questions: A Reflective Process

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Kalu
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Reflective Process ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
Purposeful Sampling ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Study Designs

A satisfactory research question often signifies the beginning point for many researchers. While this can be true for quantitative studies because of pre-defined research questions, qualitative research questions undergo series of revisions through a reflective process. This reflective process provides the framework for the subjectivity associated with qualitative inquiry. The continuous iterative reflective process is an essential component for developing qualitative research questions that correspond with the various qualitative study designs. Although qualitative inquiry is term exclusively subjective, there is a need to use a framework in developing qualitative research questions. The Emphasis- Purposeful sampling- Phenomenon of interest – Context (EPPiC) framework guides qualitative researchers in developing and revising qualitative research questions to suit a specific qualitative approach. This article addresses both the development of a research question using the “EPPiC framework” and demonstrate how to revise the “developed” research question to reflect two qualitative research design. I developed a qualitative research question for Sally Thorne’s Interpretive Description design using the EPPiC Framework and subsequently revised the research question to suit a grounded theory design.

scholarly journals The Process of Reinventing a Job: A Meta–Synthesis of Qualitative Job Crafting Research

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandra Lazazzara ◽  
Maria Tims ◽  
Davide de Gennaro
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
Job Crafting ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
And Performance

Two different research streams are encountered in the job crafting literature. The first, defined as task, cognitive, and relational job crafting by Wrzesniewski and Dutton (2001), has predominantly applied qualitative research designs to explore how employees craft their jobs to better align them with their preferences, abilities, and motivations to enhance work meaning and identity. The second stream, characterized by crafting job demands and job resources (Tims & Bakker, 2010), focuses mostly on quantitative research designs and examines the antecedents of job crafting and whether those antecedents are related to work-related well-being and performance. Although the quantitative studies have recently been meta-analyzed (Lichtenthaler & Fischbach, 2018; Rudolph, Katz, Lavigne, & Zacher, 2017), the knowledge that is captured in the qualitative studies has not been formally integrated. We contribute to a better understanding of job crafting by conducting a meta-synthesis of the qualitative research. Analyzing 24 qualitative studies, we developed a process model of job crafting that enhances an in-depth understanding of the processes associated with job crafting. More specifically, we highlight the motives for job crafting (i.e., proactive or reactive) and how the specific context may influence the form of job crafting in which individuals engage. Next, the process model shows that personal factors connect job crafting forms to the experienced job crafting consequences. The process model enables a better understanding of the conditions under which job crafting is most likely to generate positive or negative experiences.

scholarly journals Caught in the Middle: Chat(ting) about Black School Leaders

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Demetricia Hodges
Keyword(s):  
Urban Education ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Educational Leadership ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Culturally Sensitive ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Black School

The purpose of this article is to “chat” about my experience using Eurocentric theories in racial and culturally centered qualitative inquiry. The challenge I face is that I believe researchers can use Eurocentric theories to conceptualize ‘appropriate’ frameworks to conduct rigorous culturally responsible and sensitive research that contributes to existing scholarly dialogue and empirical literature on culturally sensitive designs in the field of qualitative research. In this paper I use my research experience to address the question, “How can researcher(s) conduct culturally responsible and sensitive research?” I use autoethnography and writing as a method of inquiry to (re)present the multi-layers of within and in-between chats while being caught in the middle. Chat metaphorically represents introspective musings, scholarly dialoguing, analyzing, interpreting, (re)presenting and defending. I use Tillman’s (2002) culturally sensitive research frame as an analytic tool to critically analyze my research design. I argue that qualitative researchers of ethnic, racial and cultural communities can conceptualize appropriate frameworks from mainstream theories to conduct culturally responsible and sensitive research that can help transform the traditional knowledge of fields in education, educational leadership, urban education, and policy.

scholarly journals Qualitative Research Ladder for Fledging Researchers A Review of Essentials of Qualitative Inquiry

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sepideh Fard
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
General View ◽  
Full Understanding ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology

In order to qualify our research, I think quantitative studies are not enough. A s a matter of fact, we need more qualitative studies especially if we are dealing with human traits and the social sciences’ studies as the numbers would not suffice. In doing so, there is a need for resear4chers to acquire a full understanding of qualitative research methodology, data collection procedures and the risks and issues related to them. For the beginners to enter in to the ocean of qualitative research areas, it seems necessary to have good sourcebooks to get a general view of this type of research and then deeply dive in the ocean of qualitative studies which needs lots of endeavor. In Essentials of Qualitative Inquiry, Maria J. Mayan (2009) provides a handy ladder for these beginning qualitative researchers to gain an introductory perspective.

Why Post Qualitative Inquiry?

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780042093114
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Language Representation ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology

This article explains that post qualitative inquiry is not a pre-existing humanist social science research methodology with research designs, processes, methods, and practices. It cannot be accommodated by nor is it another version of qualitative research methodology. It refuses method and methodology altogether and begins with poststructuralism, its ontology of immanence, and its description of major philosophical concepts including the nature of being and human being, language, representation, knowledge, truth, rationality, and so on. Its goal is not to find and represent something that exists in the empirical world of human lived experience but to re-orient thought to experiment and create new forms of thought and life.

scholarly journals Beyond Theoretical Sensitivity: The Benefits of Cultural Intuition within Qualitative Research and Freirean Generative Themes: Four Unique Perspectives

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Rocha ◽  
Lluliana Alonso ◽  
Michaela López Mares-Tamayo ◽  
Elexia Reyes McGovern
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
Family Photographs ◽  
Theoretical Sensitivity

To address the benefits of cultural intuition on qualitative inquiry, we highlight four qualitative studies and examine how we, as Chicana scholars, embrace the role cultural intuition plays in our individual studies. In this article, we illustrate how cultural intuition informs our use of Freirean generative themes within our methodological approach. For an in-depth illustration, we each highlight one of the four tenets of cultural intuition and explain how that tenet advises our methodological tools - such as family photographs as archive, student-generated photographs, teacher-generated artifacts, and community archival sources - to create Freirean generative themes with our participants and highlight the wealth present in Communities of Color.

scholarly journals DISCOURSE ANALYSIS IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH: NOTES FROM AN EXPERIENCE WITH HOMOEROTIC MICRO-TERRITORIALITIES

GEOgraphia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (49) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandro da Silva ◽  
Carlos Roberto de Castro E Silva
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Geographic Space ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Multiple Dimension ◽  
Investigación Cualitativa ◽  
The Way

Abstract: This article addresses discourse analysis as analysis methodology in the field of Qualitative Research and Geography. Recognizing that the possibilities of analysis in qualitative studies comprise multiple-dimension questions (epistemological, theoretical and technical), this study is based on an ethnographic research in a territory where the predominant circulation is of men who have sex with other men in order to propose dialogues and problematizations on concepts and research practices that intersect references of discourse analysis, geography of sexuality and the practices of analysis in the context of qualitative research. The results point to the possibility of using discourse analysis to analyze the geographic space (its limits and possibilities) while reiterating the need for a reflection on the way analysis methodologies demand more consistent appropriations in the use of academic studies.Keywords: qualitative research, discourse analysis, territory, geography of sexuality.ANÁLISE DE DISCURSO EM PESQUISA QUALITATIVA: NOTAS DE UMA EXPERIÊNCIAS A PARTIR DE MICROTERRITORIALIDADES HOMOERÓTICASResumo: O artigo discute a análise de discurso como metodologia de análise no campo da Pesquisa Qualitativa e da Geografia. Reconhecendo que as possibilidades de análise em pesquisas qualitativas comportam questões de múltiplas dimensões (epistemológicas, teóricas e técnicas), o estudo parte de uma pesquisa etnográfica em um território cuja circulação predominante é de homens que fazem sexo com outros homens para propor diálogos e problematizações acerca de conceitos e práticas de pesquisa que interseccionam referências da análise de discurso, da geografia da sexualidade e das práticas de análise em contexto de pesquisas qualitativas. Os resultados apontam para a possibilidade de uso da análise de discurso na análise do espaço geográfico (seus limites e possibilidades) ao mesmo tempo que reitera a necessidade de uma reflexão sobre a forma como metodologias de análise demandam apropriações mais consistentes no uso de estudos acadêmicos.Palavras chave: pesquisa qualitativa, análise de discurso, território, geografia da sexualidade.ANÁLISIS DEL DISCURSO EN LA INVESTIGACIÓN CUALITATIVA: APUNTES DE UNA EXPERIENCIA DESDE MICROTERRITORIALIDADES HOMOSEXUALESResumen: El artículo discute el análisis del discurso como metodología de análisis en el campo de la Investigación Cualitativa y la Geografía. Reconociendo que las posibilidades de análisis en la investigación cualitativa involucran cuestiones de múltiples dimensiones (epistemológicas, teóricas y técnicas), el estudio parte de una investigación etnográfica en un territorio cuya circulación predominante es de hombres que tienen sexo con otros hombres para proponer diálogos y preguntas sobre de conceptos y prácticas de investigación que cruzan referencias de análisis del discurso, geografía de la sexualidad y prácticas de análisis en el contexto de la investigación cualitativa. Los resultados apuntan a la posibilidad de utilizar el análisis del discurso en el análisis del espacio geográfico (sus límites y posibilidades) al tiempo que reiteran la necesidad de reflexionar sobre cómo las metodologías de análisis demandan apropiaciones más consistentes en el uso de los estudios académicosPalabras clave: investigación cualitativa, análisis del discurso, territorio, geografía de la sexualidad. 

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