Centre for Qualitative Research : Masterclasses 2007
Masterclass 5: An Introduction to Critical Qualitative Research
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Phil Carspecken Indiana University, USA. 4th & 5th October 2007 |
Today there are two broadly defined perspectives from which critical qualitative research draws: the tradition of critical theory, and poststructuralism. Critical qualitative research is distinguished from other genres of inquiry through its specific use of social theory in framing research questions, analyzing data and meeting validity criteria. This masterclass will provide a way of conceptualising such critical qualitative research and also provide an understanding of the kinds of qualitative research practices that can illuminate the implicit beliefs, values, norms and identity repertoires that actors draw upon within the social contexts of their lives.
The masterclass will consist of five practical lessons delivered through short lectures, exercises and group discussions over the two-day period:
1. Culture and the social system: Formulating research questions and
designing a qualitative research project
2. Knowledge and validity: Three types of validity claim and the relation
of knowledge to power
3. Analysis of observational data: action, meaning and hermeneutic-reconstructive
analysis
4. Analysis of interview data: reconstructing implicit conceptual and
identity structures
5. An introduction to systems analysis: how relations between culture
and social systems can be investigated
Phil Carspecken
Phil Francis Carspecken is professor of social inquiry and the philosophy of
inquiry at Indiana University. He is the author of several books and many articles
on critical qualitative research, including Critical Ethnography in Educational
Research, Four Scenes for Posing the Question of Meaning, and Limits to Knowledge
in the Physical and Human Sciences (forthcoming). He teaches graduate courses
on qualitative research, social theory and philosophy at Indiana University.
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Centre for Qualitative Research, Bournemouth University,
HSC, Royal London House,
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Bournemouth,
BH1 3LT,
UK
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Email: cqr@bournemouth.ac.uk
