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Pedrio Presentation 080416 RA
Pedrio Presentation 080416 RA
It focuses on:
… processes and meanings that are not experimentally examined or
measured…[but that stress] … the socially constructed nature of reality, the
intimate relationship between the researcher and what is studied, and the
situational constraints that shape inquiry.
(Denzin and Lincoln, 2000, p8)
‘All researchers bring values to a study, but qualitative researchers
make their values known’ (Creswell, 2013, p20).
me in my research
interviewing
As Braun and Clarke (2013, p225) point out, themes do not simply
emerge, pre-existent, from qualitative data. They have to be
created, not discovered, through an active process.
Um, I think they are – well obviously they … they are…. looking at
ways of … getting music out of the children, um, and using - I think
they’re using their own musicality to do that and I, I think they ….
ohh, I’m not describing it very well! (interview 1)
You can only show it. You cannot - yeah - you cannot tell it. It’s so
difficult to articulate some of these things around - it’s the same
with dance and art I think as well. …. And trying to explain to your
team things like this and get a dialogue going about stuff like this
is really hard. Because you can’t really articulate … (interview 2)
use of terminology
2.Emerging from all three interviews is the idea that any teacher who
wishes to teach musically should also to ‘be a musician’ at some
level, with direct experience of ‘how musicians operate’.
discussion
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