Qualitative Methodologies

1. Focus Groups

1.1. Pre-selected participants

1.2. Structured and Semi-structured Interviews

1.3. Analysis of Collective Inquiry and Understanding

2. Case Study

2.1. An instance of a Phenomona

2.2. Observational and/or Interviews

2.3. Systematic Analysis

2.4. Conclusions about presented Case

3. Making meaning of the Personal Experience, positionality, and History in the field.

4. Analysis of Themes

5. Ethnography

5.1. Fieldwork

5.1.1. Interviews and Observations

5.1.2. Community Embedded

5.2. Relationships

5.3. Analysis of Social and Cultural Reality

5.4. Auto-Ethnography

6. Interview Study

6.1. Researcher Led

6.2. Structured Interviews

6.3. Semi-Structured

7. In-depth

8. Storytelling and testimonials

9. Narrative Inquiry

9.1. Biography, History, and Society

9.2. Master Narratives

9.3. Analysis of Discourse

10. Action Research

10.1. Participant Lead and Guided

10.2. Consciousness raising and Social Justice

10.3. Plan of Action

10.3.1. Analysis of injustice or social issues

11. Archival

11.1. Personal and/or offical Documents and Artifacts

11.2. Discourse and Narrative Anaylsis

11.2.1. Social, Political, Cultrual, and/or Historical Significance

12. Critical Discourse Analysis

12.1. Interviews or Documents

12.2. Political and Social Meaning

12.3. Analysis of Discursive Practices

13. Phenomonology

13.1. Fieldwork: Observation and Interviews

13.2. Study of Experiences and Consciouness

13.3. Analysis of Reflections Philosophies

14. Arts-Based Inquiry

14.1. Art as research and Artists as researchers

14.2. Analysis of technique and performance