This blog post will explore Qualitative Research and Narrative Inquiry.
Qualitative Research was developed to explore the "Why" in research. Qualitative research allows us to explore issues, understand, and ask questions. After reading "An Introduction to Qualitative Research", by Beverly Hancock, I discovered that qualitative research is "concerned with developing explanations of social phenomena." Qualitative research allows us to understand our world and why things are the way they are. Qualitative research ask questions such as: why, how, and in what way? Qualitative research expresses people's opinions and is not manipulated. Most data is collected through interviews with people.
Narrative Inquiry is an analysis of narratives in human interaction. I read in "Situating Narrative Inquiry," that narrative inquiry is similar to qualitative research in that it is the study ofn stories or narratives or descriptions of a series of events. Narrative inquiry "embraces narrative as both the method and the phenomena of study."
Qualitative Research was developed to explore the "Why" in research. Qualitative research allows us to explore issues, understand, and ask questions. After reading "An Introduction to Qualitative Research", by Beverly Hancock, I discovered that qualitative research is "concerned with developing explanations of social phenomena." Qualitative research allows us to understand our world and why things are the way they are. Qualitative research ask questions such as: why, how, and in what way? Qualitative research expresses people's opinions and is not manipulated. Most data is collected through interviews with people.
Narrative Inquiry is an analysis of narratives in human interaction. I read in "Situating Narrative Inquiry," that narrative inquiry is similar to qualitative research in that it is the study ofn stories or narratives or descriptions of a series of events. Narrative inquiry "embraces narrative as both the method and the phenomena of study."
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