Integrative Practice - AS2_Multiple worlds
The group reformed today and I got a new role.
Qualitative - explore underlying thoughts, opinions and motives
Also we are going to work with boxing gloves.I have not seen none of them in real life so it is totally new to me. :)
I cannot do anything until I see the actual gloves however I found some good information of qualitative research methods.
A qualitative approach emphasizes the qualities of entities, processes and meanings that are not experimentally examined or measured in terms of quantity, amount, intensity or frequency (Denzin and Lincoln 2000, 8). Put another way, quality refers to a thing’s essence and ambience - the what, how, when and where of it. Qualitative research thus refers to the meanings, concepts, definitions, characteristics, metaphors, symbols and description of things (Berg 2007). The research questions often stress how social experience is created and given meaning.
It may be helpful to review a list of characteristics common to several qualitative methods. Though the list below is not exhaustive (Creswell 2009, 175-6), it offers a sense of well-known qualitative research methods.
Research is often conducted in the field, allowing direct interaction with the people being studied in their context.
Researchers collect data themselves by examining documents, observing behavior or interviewing participants.
Multiple sources of data are preferred over a single source; this requires the researcher to review all data, make sense of it and organize it into categories or themes that cut across all sources.
Researchers often build their patterns, categories and themes from the bottom up (inductive analysis). Center for Teaching, Research & Learning Research Support Group at the Social Science Research Lab American University, Washington, D.C. http://www.american.edu/provost/ctrl/researchsupportgroup.cfm 202-885-3862
The focus is on learning the meaning participants hold rather than the meaning brought in by the researcher.
The research is often an emergent, shifting process in response to the field.
The qualitative researcher interprets what is seen, heard and understood. This must be seen in light of the researcher’s background, history, context and prior understanding.
The researcher tries to develop a complex picture of the problem or issue by reporting multiple perspectives and identifying multiple factors involved.
Based on these methods, interrogate methods I am going to use are;
Examine boxing gloves with 5 basic senses of human normally have.
Compare comfortability of boxing gloves depend on the type
Compare sound of hits they make
Reference; https://www.american.edu/ctrl/upload/Qualitative-Research-Introduction.pdf
