The following is my understanding of qualitative research and narrative inquiry after reading "An Introduction to Qualitative Research" by Beverley Hancock and Situating Narrative Inquiry, part 1 of "Handbook of Narrative Inquiry" by D. Jean Clandinin.
I understood qualitative research to be research that seeks to understand human behaviors and the reasons behind those behaviors. While quantitative research deals with measurement, qualitative research deals with why the world works the way that it does. When doing qualitative research it is not the researcher's goal to manipulate or interfere with the situation that is being observed. Researchers collect information through the process of either encounters, observations or interviews which are "time consuming" in nature according to Hancock. It is the researcher's goal to understand how people arrive at opinions, feelings and decisions based on what they experience. I understood narrative inquiry to be a more specific form of qualitative research. It involves seeking to understand human behaviors as described through stories, or narratives. Like qualitative research, the researcher does not seek to find out what happened, but the meaning that a person took from an event and why.
This information will help my group when completing the Oral History Project by providing us with understanding of what we should and should not do when collecting data, understanding our purposes for data collection and understanding what we are listening for. It will also help us to properly interpret data and include the proper information when interpreting. Interviews usually involve a question answer process that answer what happened. These readings were important to help us understand that we are seeking to discover what an individual's reaction is to what happened.
I understood qualitative research to be research that seeks to understand human behaviors and the reasons behind those behaviors. While quantitative research deals with measurement, qualitative research deals with why the world works the way that it does. When doing qualitative research it is not the researcher's goal to manipulate or interfere with the situation that is being observed. Researchers collect information through the process of either encounters, observations or interviews which are "time consuming" in nature according to Hancock. It is the researcher's goal to understand how people arrive at opinions, feelings and decisions based on what they experience. I understood narrative inquiry to be a more specific form of qualitative research. It involves seeking to understand human behaviors as described through stories, or narratives. Like qualitative research, the researcher does not seek to find out what happened, but the meaning that a person took from an event and why.
This information will help my group when completing the Oral History Project by providing us with understanding of what we should and should not do when collecting data, understanding our purposes for data collection and understanding what we are listening for. It will also help us to properly interpret data and include the proper information when interpreting. Interviews usually involve a question answer process that answer what happened. These readings were important to help us understand that we are seeking to discover what an individual's reaction is to what happened.
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