This book contains a series of autoethnographies written by participants of a program on qualitative methods. It offers the stories of students-turned-professors and what they learned via autoethnographic writing as part of the course. The chapters provide insight into the application of a range of qualitative research techniques and, unlike typical works on qualitative methods, in a nonprescriptive method that reflects a personal learning process.
This book will be of interest to students and academics engaged in qualitative research, as well as scholars of transformative learning, teaching pedagogy and broader educational studies.
Author(s): Frode Soelberg, Larry D. Browning, Jan-Oddvar Sørnes, Frank Lindberg
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 268
City: Cham
Prologue: Heading for a Strange Shore
Acknowledgments
About the Book
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
1: Transformative Learning
What Is Qcamp?
Transformative Learning
Autoethnographic Chapter Format
References
Part I: Heuristics
2: Mining for Outliers in Qualitative Research to Develop Interviewing Strategies
References
3: Researching the Market Violence of Counterfeit Medicines: Insights from Qualitative Camp
An Odyssey within an Odyssey
The Research Journeys
Will a Hypothetic-Deductive Approach be Useful Here?
Tricks of the Trade: Delving Into Qualitative Research Methods at the Qcamp
Chasing Data Across Continents
The Final Grand Piece
The Rewards of Qcamp
References
4: Studying Processes in Organizations Lessons Learned from Limbo Situations
Introduction
“Theory”: The Variance View and the Process View in Research
Lessons at Qualitative Camp
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
What Is Good, and What Is Bad (Research)?
Experience 1: This Is Good Work!
Have you Developed any Taxonomies?
Experience 2: “I Don’t Like Grounded Theory, but Don’t Mind Me”
Experience 3: “Your Text Is Hard to Read, Please Add the Events More Chronologically”
Discussion and Reflections
Conclusion
References
Part II: Confessional
5: Self-Observation of Sublime Experience
The Ferry
Avoiding Losses
The Patio Deck
Talking Shop
The Plunge
The Knife
Lessons Learned
References
6: Harvesting Foreign Fields, the Researcher as a Solitary Reaper Away from Home
References
7: Contrasting Norwegian and American Prison Systems: Becoming (Un)broken
Part III: Peer Learning
8: Observing Cultural Differences: Dismantling Ethnocentrism in a Multicultural Environment
References
9: What’s going on here, or Welcome on board of No Escape
References
10: How Natural Is “Natural” in Field Research?
“Naturally” Occurring Data Perceived as What?
The Gift
“Naturally Occurring” Data Versus Data Perceived as (Results of) Actions and Choices
“Otherwise Occurring Data”
Encountering the Field
Bringing on the Gift
References
Part IV: Sensemaking
11: Moving Qualitative Data from Little Pieces of Colored Glass to an Elegant Stained-Glass Window
A Summary of the Article
The Challenges I Faced while Writing the Article
An Insight from Q-Camp 2009
References
12: Walking out of the Shadow
Prior to the Qualitative Camp: Walking into the Shadow
May 2016, the Qualitative Camp: Moments of Enlightenment in the Shadow
The Summer and Autumn of 2016: Facing off inside the Shadow
The Three Years Post the Qualitative Camp: Walking out of the Shadow
Stage beyond the Dissertation Defense: Looking Back at the Shadow
References
13: Finding the Human Story in a Cultural of Secrecy
14: Observational Methodology and Ecological Economics
Introduction
Preparing for Qualitative Camp: “Practicing” the Research Theme
Interlude 1: At Qualitative Camp
Interlude 2: Understanding my Own Pre-Understanding and Role as Researcher
Testing some Principles in Practice and Reflecting on What it Could Mean
From Pre-Understanding to Understanding and New Pre-Understanding. Gathering and Interpreting Data
Finding a Way: Developing a Model and Gathering Data
Interpreting
A Final Reflection
References
Part V: Epilogue
15: A Grounded Theory of Qcamp
The Grounded Theory Categories
The Axial Codes as the Case for Transformation
Character
Predicament
Resolution
Summary and Conclusions
References
Index
