Although qualitative research methods have only recently been included in occupational therapy curricula, they are being embraced by those researchers who recognise both their utility in exploring many of the issues that are of relevance and importance to clients and the profession and their congruence with client-centred philosophy (Hammell 2001). If qualitative research is to provide convinci...

The world of Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) methodology became quite taken with LINCOLN and GUBA's book "Naturalist Inquiry" (1985). I have no issue with it with respect to its application to QDA; it helped clarify and advance so many QDA issues. However, its application to Grounded Theory (GT) has been a major block on GT, as originated, by its cooptation and corruption hence remodeling of GT...

The Inquiry Cycle is a generic process model for conducting requirements elaboration. It consists of three activities: requirements expression, discussion and commitment. This paper describes an evaluation of the Inquiry Cycle model and a support tool, Tuiqiao, in the requirements analysis phase of a real project, a proposed commercial consumer information service based on Internet. The extent ...

A central proclamation of the mobile learning field is that decontextualized traditional classroom education can be replaced, or at least complemented, with for instance inquiry-based learning in authentic contexts supported by mobile technology. This paper examines such a proclamation asking the following question: How do children’s learning processes and outcomes develop in the context of tra...

In an environment in which evidence-based practice is the espoused norm, nurses have understandably sought to frame the knowledge they deem relevant to practice decisions, including the findings of their qualitative studies, as a form of evidence. However, since cancer patients face a significant challenge interpreting various evidence claims, it is important to recognize that the results of ou...

Background Training citizens living with various health conditions to design and conduct health research, using adapted methods of qualitative inquiry, paves the way for new approaches. Patient and Community Engagement Researchers (PaCERs) collaborate with health professionals, policy makers and engage other patients in all phases of research from setting study questions, agendas, implementatio...

• ABSTRACT The schedule and budget constraints of commercial product development make field research difficult to justify and integrate into the product lifecycle. As a result, commercial products do not always benefit from the unique and rich qualitative data obtained from field research methods. This paper describes guidelines for applying field research methods successfully in industry, incl...

The aim of the study was to investigate the challenges that relate to the implementation of virtual inquiry practises in middle school. The case was a school course in which a group of Finnish students (N=14) and teachers (N= 7) completed group inquiries through virtual collaboration, using a Web-based learning environment. The task was to accomplish a cross-disciplinary inquiry into cultural i...

(this article cites 28 articles hosted on the Citations use or unauthorized distribution. Counseling psychologists face many approaches from which to choose when they conduct a qualitative research study. This article focuses on the processes of selecting, contrasting, and implementing five different qualitative approaches. Based on an extended example related to test interpretation by counselo...