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Higginbottom, Gina M. A.; Pillay, Jennifer J.; Boadu, Nana Y. – Qualitative Report, 2013
Focused ethnographies can have meaningful and useful application in primary care, community, or hospital healthcare practice, and are often used to determine ways to improve care and care processes. They can be pragmatic and efficient ways to capture data on a specific topic of importance to individual clinicians or clinical specialties. While…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Health Services
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Jacob, Stacy A.; Furgerson, S. Paige – Qualitative Report, 2012
Students new to doing qualitative research in the ethnographic and oral traditions, often have difficulty creating successful interview protocols. This article offers practical suggestions for students new to qualitative research for both writing interview protocol that elicit useful data and for conducting the interview. This piece was originally…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Interviews, Oral Tradition, Ethnography
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Lim, Minjung – Qualitative Report, 2012
Recent debates on situated knowledge highlight the issue of the researcher's position in the research process, challenging the traditional assumption of the insider/outsider dichotomy. Drawing on my fieldwork among Korean immigrant parents in an American school, I describe my shifting positions in negotiation and scrutinize the ways my reflexivity…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Ideology, Researchers, Korean Americans
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Pitts, Margaret Jane – Qualitative Report, 2012
This narrative is an account of my field experiences and challenges practicing Gonzalez's (2000) Four Seasons of Ethnography methodology in Mexico City. I describe the complexities and tensions inherent in managing two scientific paradigms: Western scientific logic vs. a more organic ontology. The experiential knowledge produced in this text is…
Descriptors: Field Experience Programs, Ethics, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
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Walls, Patricia Guy – Qualitative Report, 2011
Little has been written on the personal experience of the researcher as it relates to data collection, data analysis and interpretation of results. Even more scarce has been knowledge that addresses the challenges and barriers faced by 21st century researchers engaged in ethnographic data collection amidst culturally diverse populations. The…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Ethnography, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
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Li, Jun – Qualitative Report, 2008
In this essay I reflect on the ethical challenges of ethnographic fieldwork I personally experienced in a female gambling study. By assuming a covert research role, I was able to observe natural occurrences of female gambling activities but unable to make peace with disturbing feelings of my research concealment. By making my study overt, I was…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Ethics, Researchers, Ethnography