To prepare for this Discussion:
Review the reading materials about the different approaches in this week’s Learning Resources.
Conduct your own literature search to find a published study that represents one of the Week 3 approaches. Remember, you may have to broaden your search terms to find an appropriate study.
- Review the documents linked in the Resources section above before proceeding with your own article review.
- BY DAY 3
- Contribute a Discussion post in which you respond to the following:
Summarize the characteristics of the approach of the research article you chose during your literature search.
Summarize the research article, including the citation and sufficient information for your classmates and Instructor to locate the article.
Present a short critique of that article based on the “R8360 Guidelines for Reading and Evaluating Qualitative Research Articles” document.
- Reading;
- Patton, M. Q. (2015). Qualitative research & evaluation methods: Integrating theory and practice (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
- Chapter 3, “Variety of Qualitative Inquiry Frameworks: Paradigmatic, Philosophical, and Theoretical Orientations” (pp. 85–168)
Chapter 4, “Practical and Actionable Qualitative Applications” (pp. 169–242)
Bronfenbrenner, U. (1981). The ecology of human development: Experiments by nature and designLinks to an external site.. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- NARRATIVE INQUIRY
Blustein, D. L., Kozan, S., & Connors-Kellgren, A. (2013). Unemployment and underemployment: A narrative analysis about lossLinks to an external site.. Journal of Vocational Behavior,82(3), 256-265.
SYSTEMS THEORY
- Pallan, M., Parry, J., & Adab, P. (2012). Contextual influences on the development of obesity in children: a case study of UK South Asian communitiesLinks to an external site.. Preventive Medicine, 54(3), 205-211.
- ETHNOGRAPHY/AUTOETHNOGRAPHY
Hernandez, K. A. C., Ngunjiri, F. W., & Chang, H. (2015). Exploiting the margins in higher education: A collaborative autoethnography of three foreign-born female faculty of colorLinks to an external site.. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 28(5), 533-551.
- McCormack, M. (2014). 'The intersection of class, youth masculinities and decreasing homophobia : an ethnography'Links to an external site.. British Journal of Sociology, 65(1). pp. 130-149.
PARTICIPATORY COMMUNITY APPROACHES
Hutchinson, S. L., & Gallant, K. A. (2016). Can senior centres be contexts for aging in third places?Links to an external site. Journal of Leisure Research, 48(1), 50–68. doi:10.18666/JLR-2016-V48-I1-6263