Olga Maria dos Santos Magano

It is intended that students achieve the following skills:
•    Identify the characteristics of the theoretical and practical qualitative methodologies;
•    Know the main techniques of data collection;
•    Identify and choose the methods of research / intervention most appropriate to their research projects;
•    Weaving comparisons between the various methodologies, identifying the advantages and disadvantages of each one;
•    Identify the concept of object of study and field of investigation.
•    .Analyze the information collected mobilizing content analysis;
•    Knowing the software available for classification and analysis of collected information, its limitations and potential.
•    Select methods and techniques appropriate to their qualitative research project.
•    Develop a critical analysis of the validity of the knowledge produced by the qualitative methodologies.



 

1. Overview - the importance, characteristics and history of qualitative research
2. Perspectives of Qualitative Research: interactionism, ethnomethodology and constructionist perspectives, grounded theory, structuralist models; participatory models; triangulation of perspectives and data.
3. The practice of research - objectivity and neutrality, the research questions, the field; selection strategies of the participants.
4. Qualitative methods and techniques, observation techniques, document analysis, interviews, ethnography, group dynamics;
5. Systematization, data processing and analysis
6. Construction and understanding of the text: the text as construction of reality.
7. From text to theory: analysis and interpretation - content analysis and reporting the research outcomes.
8.  Reflection on the validity of the results of Qualitative Research.

 

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E-learning

Evaluation is made on individual basis and it involves the coexistence of two modes: continuous assessment (60%) and final evaluation (40%). Further information is detailed in the Learning Agreement of the course unit.