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What Are The Key Challenges in Different Types of Main Qualitative Research?

This document discusses the key challenges of different qualitative research methods: Phenomenological research requires a solid foundation in phenomenology philosophy and careful selection of study participants who have experienced the shared phenomenon. Researchers must critically decide how to portray personal experiences. Grounded theory research is inductive in nature, requiring researchers to recognize the systematic analysis approach. Researchers must generate a theory with specific components through a long, multi-step process. Ethnographic research challenges include requiring cultural studies knowledge, data collection taking a long time, and narratives sometimes being limited or compromising the researcher. Case study research challenges are often limited samples and data, potential for researcher bias from longitudinal data collection, and determining whether to

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What Are The Key Challenges in Different Types of Main Qualitative Research?

This document discusses the key challenges of different qualitative research methods: Phenomenological research requires a solid foundation in phenomenology philosophy and careful selection of study participants who have experienced the shared phenomenon. Researchers must critically decide how to portray personal experiences. Grounded theory research is inductive in nature, requiring researchers to recognize the systematic analysis approach. Researchers must generate a theory with specific components through a long, multi-step process. Ethnographic research challenges include requiring cultural studies knowledge, data collection taking a long time, and narratives sometimes being limited or compromising the researcher. Case study research challenges are often limited samples and data, potential for researcher bias from longitudinal data collection, and determining whether to

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5.

What are the key


challenges in different
types of main qualitative
research?
BY CA GROUP 1
Phenomenology

is also known as a philosophical perspective.
Identification of a shared experience
Attempt to locate universal nature of an experience
Attempt to identify shared experience among
various individuals experiencing shared phenomena
Attempt to locate essence of an experience
What was experienced and how she experienced it

Phenomenological study
Challenges
o requires a solid foundation in the
philosophical precepts of phenomenology.
o Study participants who has the experience
need to be chosen carefully
o Digging personal experiences might be
challenging for the researcher
o Researcher has to decide critically what and
how his experiences will be portrayed in the
study.
Grounded theory
A grounded theory design is a systematic, qualitative
procedure used to generate a theory that explains, at a broad
conceptual level, a process, an action, or an interaction
about a substantive topic

The phrase "grounded theory" refers to theory that is
developed inductively from a corpus of data.

Grounded Theory is the most common, widely used, and
populer analytic technic in qualitative analysis

It is mainly used for qualitative research, but is also
applicable to other data (e.g., quantitative data)

When Do You Use Grounded Theory?
when you need a broad theory or explanation of a process.

especially helpful when current theories about a phenomenon are either inadequate or
nonexistent

when you wish to study some process, such as how students develop as writers
Challenges: Grounded theory

o This is an inductive nature so researchers need to recognize
the systematic approach in analysis.
o Researcher needs to have the basic knowledge that the
main outcome of this study is to come up with a theory that
has specific components :-
central phenomenon, causal conditions, strategies,
conditions and context, and consequences.
o The researcher has to bear with long months and multistep
processes in the research process.
Ethnographic research
Definition
A qualitative approach that studies the cultural
patterns and perspectives of participants in their
natural settings

Purpose
To describe, analyze, and interpret the culture of a
group over time to understand the groups shared
beliefs,behaviors, and language

Challenges: ethnography
o Researcher need to be equipped with basic
in cultural studies and socio-cultural systems
o Collecting data may take very long time
o In many literatures, the narratives are written
such a way like story telling that may limit the
audience for the work and may be
challenging for authors in approaching
audiences.
o Researcher might be compromised by the
study and unable to complete it.
used to describe a detailed study of a single
social unit (e.g. a case study of a particular
organization)
or to describe a research method.
Case study Investigates a contemporary
phenomenon within its real-life context;
when the boundaries between
phenomenon and context are not clearly
evident;
Case study is an ideal methodology when a
holistic, in-depth investigation is needed
Case study
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Case studies can be used in
teaching and research
The following is concerned
with the use of research
cases only
Written Record
Data Analysis
Approach
Data Collection
Technique
Research Method
Philosophical
Assumptions
Challenges: case study
o Samples of the studies are often extremely limited and therefore the
data gathered is also limited
o Longitudinal aspect and vast amount of data being collected can open
up possibilities for researcher bias
o The researcher must consider whether to study a single case or multiple
cases.
o The study of more than one case dilutes the overall analysis; the more
cases an individual studies, the greater the lack of depth in any single
case.

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