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APPROACH
Basically, the goal of qualitative research
is to provide answers as to WHY and HOW
people come to make certain decisions.
1. Ethnography
The ethnographic approach to qualitative
research is basically derived from Anthropology.
The ethnographer studies the entire culture of a
particular group.
Although ethnography was initially concerned
with geographic location and ethnicity, the
definition has expanded to include pretty much
any organization of group.
2. Phenomenology
This qualitative research approach explores the
world of the participants by gaining thoughts,
insights, and perceptions to a particular
phenomenon.
The researcher tries to investigate the
individual’s thoughts and perceptions and find
the common ground to every experience.
3. Narrative Research
This is a qualitative research that narrates the
life of an individual told to the researcher or
from available document or material.
Research highlights special events in the
individual’s life.
This could either be autobiography.
4. Grounded Theory
This qualitative research approach aims to
generate a theory from the data which are
analyzed and interpreted inductively.
The theory that can be generated does not
start from the beginning but only surfaced after
all the data have been analyzed inductively.
This is the result of thorough interviews and
observations.
5. Case Study
This present a detailed analysis of a specific
case.
Usually, a case is an individual, or one group of
people or one school.
The researcher focuses only on one particular
case.