CHYS 2P51 Lecture Notes - Margaret Mead, Orlando Fals Borda, Participatory Action Research
15 Mar 2013
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Qualitative research methods in child and youth studies. Jan 18 2013: approaches to studying children. The specific inquiry you want to investigate. Where you left off : quantitative: measurements, averages, generalities. Samples, control groups, experimental groups tools= 2 teaching methods, score: what if you want to know the teacher"s experiences with the two different teaching styles? challenges, concerns perceptions may have may ultimately affect the test scores, qualitative research. > study of how people make sense of things: always partial subjective and interpretive. Quantitative: use numbers to describe, counting, classifying. Qualitative: describe and interpret, detailed description of topic. Subjective: how people make sense of their lives. Directional words associated with quantitative: affect influence. Nondirectional words associated with qualitative: discover (eg grounded theory) Explore a process (eg case study: describe the experiences (eg phenomenology, report the stories (eg narrative research) Theory testing in social science: can be by deductive reasoning. Theory: higher paid teachers are more satisfied than lower paid counterparts.
