Title
Constructing a Qualitative Voice
Format Type
Panel
Start Date
January 2012
End Date
January 2012
Abstract
As graduate students who are becoming qualitative researchers, our task is daunting, particularly because we come from a quantitative background. Our journey requires a complete shift in the way we see ourselves as researchers and propels us to start searching for and strengthening that creative Voice we were taught to silence in our thinking and writing. For us, the challenge lies in having to deconstruct the positivist self which is so ill at ease with the “I”, flexible boundaries, reflexivity and self –revelation. The challenge lies in becoming comfortable working within a paradigm that welcomes creativity, ingenuity and the Self. These challenges create tensions as we struggle to design, conduct and report research that reflects our grasp of the essence of what it means to be qualitative researchers.
Constructing a Qualitative Voice
As graduate students who are becoming qualitative researchers, our task is daunting, particularly because we come from a quantitative background. Our journey requires a complete shift in the way we see ourselves as researchers and propels us to start searching for and strengthening that creative Voice we were taught to silence in our thinking and writing. For us, the challenge lies in having to deconstruct the positivist self which is so ill at ease with the “I”, flexible boundaries, reflexivity and self –revelation. The challenge lies in becoming comfortable working within a paradigm that welcomes creativity, ingenuity and the Self. These challenges create tensions as we struggle to design, conduct and report research that reflects our grasp of the essence of what it means to be qualitative researchers.
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