10-7-25 EDUC 473 (TUE) Week 7 Reading Reflections, Comments, questions by

Aja

ajamack — 2025-10-03 02:21:19 UTC

Rebeccah Roque

2025-10-06 23:48:49 UTC

“Quality lies in evoking the depth of lived experience, not in counting instances” (p. 114).

“Quality in qualitative research cannot be standardized—it must be justified” (p. 118).

Rebeccah Roque

2025-10-07 00:16:10 UTC

“Whose research is it? Who owns it? Whose interests does it serve?”

Rebeccah Roque

2025-10-07 00:19:07 UTC

Researchers must balance rigor with compassion, truth with care, and analysis with humility. Qual research promotes research that heals, empowers, and enacts social justice.

“Ethics is the heartbeat of qualitative research — not its paperwork.” (p. 103)

Rebeccah Roque

2025-10-07 00:30:39 UTC

Anticipate sensitive topics, and allow participants to skip questions or stop interview at their request.

Tim

2025-10-07 04:30:24 UTC

This article and its methodological approach even inverts/attempts to disrupt the proverbial 'boomerang of colonialism' in a way.

I also appreciate that there is a very material and replicable example of the effectiveness of decolonizing methodologies in the description of how affect influences enrollment (p.303).

Tim

2025-10-07 04:33:28 UTC

The general representation of interviewing from a tactics v. strategy perspective is interesting language (for several reasons), but the key piece for me involves how relational pre-planning is of the utmost importance. More broadly, this chapter gives a lot of key terms and names to ideas that I had an intuitive understanding of, but did not name in the same way. I think this will be helpful in my efforts to refine the specific approaches that I plan to use in future research.

Tim

2025-10-07 04:36:07 UTC

I am appreciative of how this chapter breaks down the different components of each method and then gives examples of the ways that research design in each format could look. In that way, it helps us better model the methods we choose for our own work.

Tim

2025-10-07 04:38:20 UTC

The reminder of the importance of tacit knowledges via body language and silence in this chapter resonate strongly with me.

Armando

2025-10-07 08:22:42 UTC

Which opening questions and generative questions do you typically use? What there a type of question that is new to you?

Armando Bustos

2025-10-07 08:24:23 UTC

Most of the studies I have read use semi-structured approaches. Has anyone ever seen a study that uses a formal structured interview model?

2025-10-07 08:25:27 UTC

At times I am still confused how a narrative study versus a phenomenological approach differ in practice.

Armando Bustos

2025-10-07 08:26:00 UTC

What are the implications for a study when the primary author is an outsider does minimal fieldwork and relies heavily on an insider to conduct the research?
Does the reliance on an insider impact the outcomes of the study?

El Tavo

2025-10-07 14:05:20 UTC

Qualitative interviews provide opportunities for mutual discovery, understanding, reflection, and explanation via a path that is organic, adaptive, and oftentimes energizing. Interviews elucidate subjectively lived experiences and viewpoints from the respondents’ perspective (p. 170, Kindle)

El Tavo

2025-10-07 14:05:59 UTC

Observation Process: gain access, exercise reciprocity, potentially give back to community, adopt norms and cultural behaviors, have note-taking device, and take notes immediately after onbservation (p. 140).

El Tavo

2025-10-07 14:07:13 UTC

Decolonizing methods include: conducting research

in the local language (Skutnabb -Kangas, 2000), promoting local ways of knowing, and encouraging

local participants to direct the research (Smith, 1999) (p. 294).

Ray

2025-10-07 18:45:31 UTC

Lots of different flavors of interview
- Vary by structure
- Vary by “type”
- All boil down to some sort of conversation
  - Dialogue back and forth us key
Identifying and explaining assumptions is important
Writing good Qs is a skill
- Simple
- Focused
- Broad
- Neutral/non-leading
- Uphold identities

Ray

2025-10-07 18:47:04 UTC

Broken down into 3 main methods:
- Interview
  - As formal or informal as you feel comfortable
  - Can prepare topics/Qs in advance
  - Similar to classes on surveys: writing/asking good questions is a skill
- Observation
  - Varying levels of depth
  - Greasing the wheels may be required
  - Timestamped notes/sketches
- Documents
  - Check your desired list with “experts”
  - Can come in a wide variety so stay aware

Ray

2025-10-07 18:48:37 UTC

Ray

2025-10-07 18:49:04 UTC

Continuation of previous work w/ inclusion committees at school site
Goal: expanding school access for students with disabilities
Frameworks: Post-colonial, decolonial, and critical cultural
- Sub-framework: critical disability studies
Method: Community-based participatory research
- “Participants are not treated as uninformed subjects. Rather, they collaborate with researchers to provide research ideas, questions, and guide methodological directions “

Angelica

2025-10-07 19:51:31 UTC

It was a helpful thought exercise from the author to design our own narrative, phenomenological, Grounded theory, case study, and ethnographic studies. It made me really think about the differences between the approaches, and what kinds of research questions each would be most appropriate in addressing.

Angelica

2025-10-07 19:55:29 UTC

"What I advise my students is to forget the labels surrounding interviews and discover what feels natural for them while conducting interviews" (p. 127).

This is very helpful advice for me. Sometimes, I get caught up in the specific details, and this week's readings were quite dense in terms of the broad extent of ways to conduct qualitative research. This suggestion from the author reminds me to focus not on the labels, but on the core purpose of qualitative research, which is to gain an accurate, authentic, and respectful understanding of lived experiences and phenomena.

Angelica

2025-10-07 20:03:29 UTC

This week, for my synthesis slide, I made a Venn Diagram reflecting the overlapping concepts from the week's readings. I took this approach because I especially appreciated all the charts and diagrams in Tracy's chapter 7. They were very helpful in illustrating the thought processes researchers should undertake when considering how to approach their research. Also, I especially like the Tips and Tools Table 7.1, which shows how interviewers can pick and choose their approaches from across structures, types, and stances.

Angelica

2025-10-07 20:06:47 UTC

"Participants are not treated as uninformed subjects. Rather, they collaborate with researchers to provide research ideas, questions, and guide methodological directions" (p. 297).

This, to me, summarizes the entire purpose of qualitative research. It is what we must keep in mind when engaging in the process of hearing, and then telling others' stories through research.

Carlos

2025-10-07 20:26:01 UTC

Carlos

2025-10-07 20:26:44 UTC

Carlos

2025-10-07 20:27:16 UTC

Carlos

2025-10-07 20:27:48 UTC

Maria Kim

2025-10-07 21:25:02 UTC

Maria Kim

2025-10-07 21:25:20 UTC

Maria Kim

2025-10-07 21:25:42 UTC

Levon

ghanimian_levon — 2025-10-08 00:16:17 UTC

Levon

ghanimian_levon — 2025-10-08 00:16:41 UTC

Levon

ghanimian_levon — 2025-10-08 00:17:10 UTC

Maria Kim

2025-10-08 00:32:56 UTC

My wondering is if Author 2 (Odoyo) should actually have been the first author. As stated in class, Dr. Miramba stated there would be a lot of conversations going on behind the scenes regarding why it was this way (if there were multiple papers coauthored together, etc.). Author 2 seemed to instrumental in every aspect of the research.