It involves the generation of portraits of individuals documenting their voices and visions within a social and cultural context.
It describes the meaning for several individuals of their lived experiences of a concept of a phenomenon.
It involves a field-based study lengthy enough to surface people´s everyday norms, rituals, and routines in detail.
It involves the use of thick description and close analysis of lived experience to understand how meaning is created through embodied perception.
It involves the study of social interactions, behaviours, and perceptions that occur within groups, teams, organizations, and communities.
It can be both a method and the phenomenon of study.
It is ideal to study the relationship between what happened and how people have come to understand these events.
The researcher has to restory the “story” according to themes or categories.
We can study intrinsic, instrumental and/or collective bounded systems.
Its roots can be traced back to anthropological studies of small, rural (and often remote) societies that were undertaken in the early 1900s.
It implies the analysis of data that involves explicit interpretation of the meanings and functions of human actions.
The particularity and uniqueness of the the case under analysis is crucial.
It studies the shared patterns of behaviors, language, and actions of a cultural group in a natural setting.
It is deliberate, solution-oriented investigation that is group or personally owned and conducted.
It involves systematic observations and data collection which can be then used by the practitioner-researcher in reflection, decision-making and the development of more effective classroom strategies.
It was developed in the School of Nursing, University of California San Francisco by sociologists Glaser and Strauss.
Carr and Kemmis are two relevant authors within this research tradition.
In this research tradition we use to interview in between 7 and 12 participants.
It is a flexible research tradition that can be easily mixed with others.
Characterized by spiraling cycles of problem identification, systematic data collection, reflection, analysis, data-driven action taken, and, finally, problem redefinition.
It implies the simultaneous collection and analysis of data.
It is ideal for exploring integral social relationships and the behaviour of groups where there has been little exploration of the contextual factors that affect individual’s lives.
It implies the in-depth analysis of a bounded system in action.
It implies deep reflection.
It is the interdisciplinary study of the activities involved in generating and analyzing stories of life experiences.
Writing analytical memos is key for this research tradition.
Participant Observation is key for this research tradition.
Its main purpose is providing a voice for seldom heard individuals and exploring educational research problems by understanding the experiences of an individual.
Ideal to develop a new theory.
Three key authors in this research tradition are Yin, Stake and Merriam.
It is a collection and analysis of people’s perceptions related to a specific, definable phenomenon.
It can be defined as the discovery of theory from data systematically obtained from social research.
It was designed for use by teachers to attempt to solve problems and improve professional practices in their own classrooms.
Stories constitute the data. They are called "Field texts."
It is focused in actions rather than in beliefs and patterns.
The researcher wears two hats at the same time.
