activities (Blau & Peled‚ 2012). This qualitative‚ narrative case study examined teachers’ attitudes towards technology (e.g.‚ wireless laptops‚ tablets‚ iPads‚ computers‚ and any form of portable technology) within a rural school district and reasons they should be used in tandem with the classroom pedagogy. A qualitative‚ narrative case study research method will be applied along with the research design‚ population and sample‚ ethical research‚ data collection instruments‚ data collection
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A Companion to QUALITATIVE RESEARCH A Companion to QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Edited by Uwe Flick‚ Ernst von Kardorff and Ines Steinke Translated by Bryan Jenner SAGE Publications London ● Thousand Oaks ● New Delhi Translation © 2004 This English edition first published 2004 Originally published in the series “rowohlts enzyklopädie” under the title QUALITATIVE FORSHCHUNG – Ein Handbuch Copyright © 2000 Rowohlt Ttaschenbuch Verlag GmbH‚ Reinbek bei Hamburg Apart from any fair
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PART ONE Introduction to Qualitative Research CHAPTER 1 The Nature of Qualitative Research: Development and Perspectives This chapter is an attempt to trace the background of qualitative research‚ its development and its main features. It also focuses on some epistemological and methodological issues. The aim is to put the more pragmatic and practical sections in the book into a theoretical and methodological context. Qualitative research is a form of social inquiry that focuses
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Data-collection in Qualitative Research This Chapter is about methods and techniques in data-collection during a qualitative research. We mentioned earlier that qualitative research is eclectic. That is‚ the choice of techniques is dependent on the needs of the research. Although this should be true for almost all social research‚ it is particularly so with qualitative research in that the appropriate method or techniques is often identified and adopted during the research. Qualitative research is also multi-modal
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habits that are very different than other age groups. They hang out in certain groups in their free time and attitudes change every day. To examine the actions of teenagers‚ an ethnography study was held at a local high school‚ Eagle Tech Academy‚ in two different locations‚ the commons area and the lunchroom. The point of the study was to compare the actions of students in the commons area vs. students in the lunchroom. Behavior and Environment Outside of Classroom Lunch Behavior - Georgia In B lunch
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Ethnography (from Greek word ethnos = folk/people and grapho = to write) is a qualitative research method aimed to learn and understand cultural phenomena which reflect the knowledge and system of meanings guiding the life of a cultural group (Agar 1996). It was pioneered in the field of socio-cultural anthropology but has also become a popular method in various other fields of social sciences—particularly in sociology‚ communication studies‚ and history —that study people‚ ethnic groups and other
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this qualitative exploratory case study is to develop new strategies and initiatives to improve employee participation in wellness programs. The significance of the study is the lack of employee participation is preventing the strategy of combating rising health care with the use of wellness programs from success. The nature of the study will explore the lived experiences of 20 professionals with the use of a qualitative exploratory case study. The primary research question for this study is what
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2014: 36/68 (Psychology Developmental); 50/120 (Pediatrics). The vast majority of current‚ if not all‚ research on therapeutic medical play has been focused on and carried out in a hospital environment commissioning the use of ill children as participants. The authors of this article believe that examining a target population is advantageous but that it is successively as important to
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What makes ethnography distinctive as a research methodology compare to other approaches to study social deviance? Ethnographies of deviant behavior are one of the most popular within the sociological genre. It identifies studies that involves ‘personal observation‚ interaction‚ and experience (as) the only way to acquire accurate knowledge about deviant behaviour’ (Adler‚ 1985:11) Ethnography requires having a input to various fields such as anthropology‚ sociology and criminology in order to
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COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS The quantitative and qualitative research traditions can be thought of as distinct cultures marked by different values‚ beliefs‚ and norms. Qualitative research methods are complex meaningful analyses characterized by processes and meanings that are not measured in terms of mathematical measurements. Quantitative research however‚ relies and builds on mathematical procedures and methods‚ such as frequency‚ quality‚ amount and
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