Qualitative Methods in Educational Research - OD0133016

• Title: Qualitative Methods in Educational Research
• Guaranteed by: Ústav výzkumu a rozvoje vzdělávání (41-UVRV)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2021
• Semester: both
• E-Credits: 0
• Hours per week, examination: 25/0, other [HS]
• Extent per academic year: 25 [hours]
• Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (18); summer:unknown / unknown (18)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Belongs to the student work of type: disertační práce
• Note: course is intended for doctoral students only; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan; can be fulfilled in the future; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: RNDr. Dominik Dvořák, Ph.D.
• Classification: Teaching > Pedagogy

Annotation

English

Last update: PhDr. Veronika Laufková, Ph.D. (18.11.2018)

Following the Introductory Theoretical-Methodological Course, the students will be introduced to the basic theoretical and methodological foundations of qualitative research. The course will specifically focus on the case study strategy, explaining the main methods of data collection – observation and interviews, including methods of making records. During the distance part of the course, the participants will conduct their own data collection. The course will also include data processing and analysis. The students will be presented with the procedures of text encoding in the software environment for qualitative analysis (MAXQDA).

Czech

Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (23.10.2018)

Studenti budou v návaznosti na Úvodní teoreticko-metodologický kurz seznámeni se základními teoretickými a metodologickými východisky kvalitativního výzkumu. Kurz bude specificky zaměřen na strategii případové studie a v jejím rámci budou vysvětleny hlavní metody shromažďování dat - pozorování a rozhovory, včetně způsobů pořizování záznamů. (Pro cvičení v kurzu budou využity videozáznamy výuky a záznamy rozhovorů s učiteli pořízené ve vícepřípadové studii školy v Centru základního výzkumu školního vzdělávání.) V průběhu distanční části kurzu budou účastníci provádět vlastní sběr dat. Součástí kurzu bude zpracování dat a jejich analýza. Studenti budou seznámeni s postupy kódování textu v softwarovém prostředí pro kvalitativní analýzu (MAXQDA). Při prezenčních setkáních i v e-learningovém prostředí povedou účastníci průběžný diskurs o svých badatelských zkušenostech, který bude završen závěrečnou konferencí.

Aim of the course

Last update: PhDr. Veronika Laufková, Ph.D. (18.11.2018)

Following the Introductory Theoretical-Methodological Course, the students will be introduced to the basic theoretical and methodological foundations of qualitative research. The course will specifically focus on the case study strategy, explaining the main methods of data collection – observation and interviews, including methods of making records. During the distance part of the course, the participants will conduct their own data collection. The course will also include data processing and analysis. The students will be presented with the procedures of text encoding in the software environment for qualitative analysis (MAXQDA).

Literature

Last update: PhDr. Veronika Laufková, Ph.D. (18.11.2018)

Denzin, N. K., Lincoln, Y. S. The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research. Thousand Oak : Sage, 2005.
Huberman, A. M., Miles, M. B. Qualitative Data Analysis. An Expanded Sourcebook. Thousand Oak : Sage, 1994.
Maxwell, J. A. Qualitative Research Design. An Interactive Approach. Thousand Oaks,: Sage, 1996.

 

Online zdroje:

http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs

http://www.qualitativeresearch.uga.edu/QualPage/

http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/IJQM/index

http://www.esds.ac.uk/qualidata/about/introduction.asp

http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/qualres.html

Teaching methods

Last update: PhDr. Veronika Laufková, Ph.D. (18.11.2018)

The instruction will be provided on the specified dates in the form of full-time block teaching and distance learning in the Moodle e-learning environment. Both in personal meetings and in the e-learning environment, the course participants will hold a systematic discourse about their research experience.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: PhDr. Veronika Laufková, Ph.D. (18.11.2018)

Presentation and discussion of the students’ own qualitative research at the final meeting.

Syllabus

Last update: PhDr. Veronika Laufková, Ph.D. (18.11.2018)

Topics:

1.     Characteristics of the strengths and weaknesses of the qualitative approach in comparison with quantitative research, combined research possibilities; planning process of qualitative research (objectives, conceptual and theoretical frameworks, formulation of research questions).

2.     Ensuring the quality of research (credibility and validity, transferability, reliability, dependability); ethical questions and their solutions (ensuring the safety of research participants, confidentiality, informed consent).

3.     Specifics of different strategies of qualitative research (grounded theory, case study, ethnographic and biographical approaches); multiple case studies of school as a concrete example of the application of one of the strategies of qualitative research.

4.     Data collection methods (field notes; participant and non-participant observation; in-depth interview, focus groups; technical aspects of data collection).

5.     Qualitative data analysis (transcription, various approaches to coding, using software tools; categorization and interpretation of results); writing research reports (interim records, database creation, quoting the participants’ opinions, preparation of reports for publication).