Discoursanalyse: twee inleidingen ter discussie

KWALON ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry van den Berg

Als gevolg van de groeiende aandacht voor discoursanalyse is er onmiskenbaar behoefte aan een goede introductie. Uitgevers lijken daar een fijne neus voor te hebben. Dat blijkt bijvoorbeeld uit het initiatief van Sage om vrijwel tegelijkertijd met maar liefst twee introducties op de markt te komen. De eerste introductie is een boekje in de reeks 'Qualitative Research Methods Series': de bekende blauwe reeks met inleidingen in diverse methoden van kwalitatief onderzoek. Het boekje is geschreven door Nelson Phillips en Cynthia Hardy. Beide auteurs hebben diverse studies verricht op het terrein van organisatieprocessen. De tweede introductie is geschreven door Louise Phillips en Marianne Jørgensen, die een achtergrond hebben in de communicatiewetenschappen. Hoewel beide boeken hetzelfde doel beogen (een inleiding bieden in het complexe veld van discoursanalyse), zijn ze onvergelijkbaar zowel wat betreft opzet als behandeling van het veld van discoursanalyse. Om die reden zal ik ze ook afzonderlijk bespreken.

KWALON ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Chotkowski ◽  
Francien Rosing ◽  
Sandhya Badal

The use of qualitative research methods by the Inspectorate SZW Margaret Chotkowski, Francien Rosing & Sandhya Badal The Inspectorate SZW conducted a longitudinal qualitative study on labor market re-integration services for unemployed youth on social benefits. This research design had some ethnographic features and was innovative for the Inspectorate. This article examines whether the Inspectorate and other, similar organizations can benefit from using such research methods. First, we describe the main characteristics and results of our research. Then we reflect on the research design and its added value, limitations and dilemmas for the Inspectorate. We conclude by illustrating how qualitative research with ethnographic features is, with some limitations, a valuable addition to the array of intervention methods used by supervising bodies such as the Inspectorate.


KWALON ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hennie Boeije ◽  
Jeanine Evers

This editorial offers an introduction to the first three contributions in this volume about educating students in Methodology and in particular in qualitative research methods. In the near future Universities of Applied Sciences have to come up with plans for educating their students in methodology. In this editorial many questions are posed about the nature of research methods that will be taught at Universities of Applied Sciences. In December 2012 a conference is going to be organized about this topic.


KWALON ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hennie Boeije ◽  
AnneLoes van Staa

Thirty years of qualitative research into health and healthcare: an insider’s perspective This paper offers a personal reflection of two researchers on the development of qualitative research in health and healthcare in the past thirty years in the Netherlands. We explore the rise in international publications, as well as the themes that researchers address and the methodologies they use. We conclude that in recent decades the importance and number of qualitative studies in the field of health and care has increased substantially in the Netherlands. However, at the same time it seems that the debate about qualitative research has stopped. Reflections on their use are needed to maintain and develop the quality of the methods, particularly in a period in which qualitative research methods are accepted and widespread.


KWALON ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Harrie Jansen

What is qualitative in qualitative research? What is qualitative in qualitative research? Most qualitative research does not follow the methodology of grounded theory (GT). In methodological literature, however, qualitative research is defined in terms of GT. This leaves much qualitative research methodologically poorly defined in the first place. Secondly in the identification with GT the meaning of ‘qualitative’ is blurred and mixed with ideology. The essay pleads to take quality literally in defining empirical qualitative research methods and in the distinction with quantitative research.


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