Definition, Characteristics and Ethics
von MELINA ALEJANDRA ORTIZ MALDONADO
1. Ethical Considerations
2. Concern with process
3. Ethical issues are present in any kind of research.
4. Codes of ethics have to be set by researches in order to protect participants and support ethical approaches to fieldwork.
5. Ethical Principles
6. The difficulties inherent in qualitative research can be alleviated by awareness and use of well-established ethical principles.
7. Autonomy
8. It also means that participants exercise their rights as autonomous persons to voluntarily accept or refuse to participate in the study.
9. Beneficence
10. Beneficence in some situations may be taken to the extreme as paternalistic approach indicates the denial of autonomy and freedom of choice.
11. Justice
12. One of the crucial and distinctive features of this principle is avoiding exploitation and abuse of participants.
13. Autonomy
14. Beneficence
15. Justice
16. Definition
17. Characteristics
18. Creswell (1998) states that qualitative research is an inquiry process of understanding based on distinct methodological traditions of inquiry that explore a social or human problema.
19. Naturalistic
20. Takes place in natural setting, the qualitative researcher often goes to the site of participants to conduct the research.
21. Descriptive Data
22. It takes the form of words or pictures instead of numbers and describes the data in depth, which means that all details must be considered.
23. Qualitative research focuses on process rather than outcomes.
24. The three main methods of data collection:
25. Focus Group
26. In-depth Interviews
27. Participant Observation
28. Inductive
29. personally asking people questions in one-on-one conversations.
30. asking questions and generating discussion among a group of people.
31. recording what you have seen, heard, or encountered in detailed field notes.
32. It means that theories or concepts are built on the basis of collecting data and understanding situations, focusing on behaviors, building theories, and reaching conclusions.
33. Meaning
34. The key element is to capture perspectives as precise as possible.
35. Naturalistic
36. Inductive
