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Article: How is qualitative research taught at the master's level?(Report)
- Article from:
- Journal of Social Work Education
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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QUALITATIVE RESEARCH POSES many challenges for educators. The named approaches to qualitative research are numerous and diverse; it is not a single unified tradition, as is probabilistic quantitative research. Differences in epistemologies, research purposes, methods, and reporting styles make simple generalization about qualitative research difficult. At the same time, social work authors note its usefulness in developing empirical knowledge (Gilgun, 1994; Riessman, 1994; Sherman & Reid, 1994) and its utility in policy research (Rodwell & Woody, 1994) and practice research as well as in program evaluation (Drisko, 2001; Gould, 1999; Ruckdeshel, Earnshaw, & Ferrik, 1994). ...