Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design Quotes

“Qualitative research is a situated activity that locates the observer in the world. Qualitative research consists of a set of interpretive, material practices that make the world visible. These practices transform the world. They turn the world into a series of representations, including field notes, interviews, conversations, photographs, recordings, and memos to the self. At”
― John W. Creswell, Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches

“Thomas, G. (2015). How to do your case study (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.”
― John W. Creswell, Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches

“Yin, R. K. (2014). Case study research: Design and method (5th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.”
― John W. Creswell, Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches

“This turns on the lived experiences of individuals and how they have both subjective experiences of the phenomenon and objective experiences of something in common with other people. Thus, there is a refusal of the subjective–objective perspective, and for these reasons, phenomenology lies somewhere on a continuum between qualitative and quantitative research.”
― John W. Creswell, Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches

“included in all phenomenological studies: An emphasis on a phenomenon to be explored, phrased in terms of a single concept or idea, such as the educational idea of “professional growth,” the psychological concept of “grief,” or the health idea of a “caring relationship.” The exploration of this phenomenon with a group of individuals who have all experienced the phenomenon. Thus, a heterogeneous group is identified that may vary in size from 3 to 4 individuals to 10 to 15.”
― John W. Creswell, Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches

“education (Tesch, 1988; van Manen, 1990, 2014).”
― John W. Creswell, Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches

“Phenomenology is not only a description but it is also an interpretive process in which the researcher makes an interpretation of the meaning of the lived experiences.”
― John W. Creswell, Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches

“In terms of practice, the questions become broad and general so that the participants can construct the meaning of a situation, a meaning typically forged in discussions or interactions with other persons. The more open-ended the questioning, the better, as the researcher listens carefully to what people say or do in their life setting. Thus, constructivist researchers often address the “processes” of interaction among individuals. They also focus on the specific contexts in which people live and work in order to understand the historical and cultural settings of the participants. Researchers recognize that their own background shapes their interpretation, and they “position themselves” in the research to acknowledge how their interpretation flows from their own personal, cultural, and historical experiences. Thus the researchers make an interpretation of what they find, an interpretation shaped by their own experiences and background; for example,”
― John W. Creswell, Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches

“you will see this framework at work when ethnographers employ both quantitative (e.g., surveys) and qualitative data collection (LeCompte & Schensul, 1999) and when case study researchers use both quantitative and qualitative data (Luck, Jackson, & Usher, 2006; Yin, 2009).”
― John W. Creswell, Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches

“Consequently, any discussion (including this one) can only be a partial description of possibilities, but a review of several major interpretive frameworks can provide a sense of options. The”
― John W. Creswell, Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches

“In other studies, the philosophy is made explicit by a special section in the study—typically in the description of the characteristics of qualitative inquiry often found in the methods section. Here the inquirer talks about ontology, epistemology, and other assumptions explicitly and details how they are exemplified in the study. The”
― John W. Creswell, Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches