A Qualitative Research Method and Its Use in Practice
Words: 845 1095The graduate assistant handed back my research proposal with red ink circling the word "interview" and a note in the margin: "Which type? How will you code the responses?" I sat in the campus library that October afternoon, realizing I had planned to gather stories from students about their first-generation college experience without understanding what made my approach actually qualitative. That confusion led me to phenomenology, a research method that seeks to understand how people experience and make meaning of […]