RESEARC

H IN DAILY
LIFE
LESSON 1: QUALITATIVE
RESEARCH DESIGN
 WHAT IS A RESEARCH
DESIGN?
Similar to building a house, a research design is your guide for you
to finish your research. This may include answering the 5W’s:

What?
Why?
Who?
Where?
When?
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DAWSON (2020) explains the importance
of these questions on how you are going to
get the answers for your research
questions
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CONTENTS
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WHY
WHAT
What is your research Why do you want to do your
all about? What do you research? This question
want to find out? What should be answered at the
problems do you want significance of the study. It
to solve? It is important may be that you want to do
to have answers to your research because it is a
these questions in the requirement. However, there
very beginning of your are other reasons as to why
research. Answers to you chose that specific topic.
these questions will Whatever the reason may be, it
give you a guide on is important to have a clear
how you are going to vision on why you want to
approach your research continue your research
topic
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Who will take part in
your research? Who
CONTENTSWhere will you gather all
Finally, when are you
information needed for your
will participate in research? This part of your going to start gathering
your study? You research should take into information for your
should have a clear consideration your capabilities research? When will you
indication on the as a researcher. If you think that do interviews? When will
specific type of you interpret and analyze
your data and participants in
people that will take your data? This should be
research will be too far away,
part in your study answered immediately
then it’s much better to change
(age, gender, your topic. You will learn more knowing that you only
economic status, about this in the following have a short time in
etc.) discussions completing your work

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WHO WHERE WHEN
HOW DO WE
RELATE THE
5W’s TO
RESEARCH
DESIGN?
Knowing how to answer those questions in
your own topic saves you a lot of time in
thinking about your research as a whole.
You need to have a clear indication what
your research is all about, why do you want
to do it, who will be your respondents,
where are you going to get the information
and when will you get it.
4 APPROACHES TO QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

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PHENOMENOLOGY
02
CASE STUDY

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01 HISTORICAL
ETHNOGRAPHY APPROACH
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ETHNOGRA CASE STUDY

PHY
From the word ethno=people and graphy=
If you want to learn deeper and more
specific details of a certain situation, group
writing. Ethnography translates to writing
of people or an individual, you may want to
about people. This type of approach to
use case studies. The difference of case
qualitative research aims to study a particular
study with other approach to qualitative
group of people in their natural settings. This
research is that it gives a more in-depth
particular study wants to describe and
analysis to a topic with a use of more data
interpret the behavior of different kinds of
gathering procedures at the same time. The
people, culture or population. This can pertain
problem with case studies is that it’s more
to a specific type of culture, community,
difficult to use especially if it is your first
school or workplace
time making a research paper
 PHENOMENOLOG
Y
This type of approach to qualitative research wants to study the phenomenon or experiences of
people. The purpose of this approach is to give an idea on how individuals or a group of people
react or experience a certain phenomenon. A phenomenon can be a rare occurrence or an
experience of an individual that is not common. An example of this can be applied when we
want to study about the experiences of teenagers to bullying or physical abuse
 04 HISTORICAL APPROACH
You might want to ask
Historical approach is a questions like “What is the
systematic collection and purpose of the
evaluation of information document?” “Are there
which have occurred in the other forms of documents
past. or information that I can
add?”

This can be in a form of

To give you a proper documents, stories, artifacts,
explanation of this type of videos, etc. What you want to
approach, think of the do is to examine the validity of
1986 EDSA Revolution; these documents, or if you
think about World War II or want to add more information
the past presidential about a past event that hasn’t
elections. yet emerged.