Qualitative research & evaluation methods
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...I employed critical ethnographic components of data collection – participant observation, field notes, interviews, life history, and analysis of documents, coupling “the focus on culture with the commitment to use findings for change” (Patton 2002, 131)....
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...…70 minutes and sought to allow these women to, “describe what [was] meaningful and salient without being pigeon holed into standardized categories” (Patton 2002, 56; italics in original), cultivating “a special interest in human meaning and interaction as viewed from the perspective of people…...
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...“How to interpret stories, and more specifically, the texts that tell the stories, is at the heart of narrative analysis” (Patton 2002, 118)....
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...I employed, “a very practical side to qualitative methods that simply involves asking open-ended questions of people and observing matters of interest in real-world settings in order to solve problems, improve programs, or develop policies” (Patton 2002, 136)....
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...…books ranges from authoritative collections designed for experienced researchers (e.g. Denzin & Lincoln 2005) to more user-friendly approaches (e.g. Mason 2002; Patton 2002), while the qualitative dimension in some more general treatments also makes them worthy of consideration (e.g. Bryman 2004)....
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...…faces all seriously committed researchers sooner or later is the doctoral research proposal, and Kilbourn’s (2006) discussion of the qualitative proposal provides an outstanding introduction to this (a significantly briefer account can be found in the ‘top ten tips’ provided by Patton 2002: 33–35)....
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...The multiple data sources were used to triangulate the findings (Patton, 2002)....
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