Chapter 7
Purposes and Questions in Qualitative Research
Chapter 7 of Inquiry in Music Education:
• Describes how research purposes and questions emerge from an interpretive perspective;
• Summarizes distinct characteristics of various qualitative research traditions such as basic qualitative research, ethnography, phenomenology, case study, grounded theory, and narrative research; and
• Outlines and describes the conceptual and theoretical aspects of a proposal for qualitative research.
Handouts / Worksheets
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Resources
The videos and other links below were chosen to extend and clarify the concepts and skills mentioned in this chapter. We hope these resources are helpful! Please let us know what you think of them, and please suggest other resources that you use as an instructor or as a student.
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The Qualitative Report (open access peer reviewed journal/academic community)
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QualPage blog, “Examining the world through qualitative inquiry”
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University of Huddersfield “open resource” lectures on qualitative research analysis