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Tacit Cultural Knowledge
Debra Rena Miller
其他書名
An Instrumental Qualitative Case Study of Mixed Methods Research in South Africa
出版University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2015
ISBN13391092639781339109268
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pK4nxQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In-person interviews among South African professors as well as a corpus of books, sections, journal articles, and theses informed the study. Narrative, thematic, and discursive analysis served to naturalistically generalize themes of the case and to approach an integrated crystallization of findings across data sources. Findings showed that research methodology in South Africa serves as a means to an end and requires relational ethics. Relational aspects of life require communicatively embedded collaborative approaches with time for minimally structured talk and storytelling in and across data collection events. Mixed methods studies face challenges of hybrid languages and styles with even educated participants displaying multiple forms of literacies. To deal with these realities, qualitative approaches dominate across studies of all approaches and in applications of mixed methods research. Whether asked by South African researchers or by external funders, research questions need to be contextually sensitive. Sensitive contexts require researchers to connect with both heart and mind in attempting to walk in participants' shoes. Tacit cultural knowledge involves methodologies as political identities that lead to economically based knowledge.