2.27 Qualitative methods

We covered creating transcripts, participatory action research, and focus groups this evening.  It was primarily an interactive class where you looked at primary data in light of the different practices we discussed.

For next week

Read:  Review - ethnographic, case study + phenomenological approaches in Mertens, Ch 8 Qualitative Methods; Perl (1976), 17;   Heath (1983) pdf;  Young, pdf

Write: code the sample transcript 2 (to the left).  Name features of the context, the actor(s), actions, interactions, conditions and outcomes - and then see what you can come up with in terms of patterns and relationships that you might spin out into theory.