- Aug 2019
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pressbooks.rampages.us pressbooks.rampages.us
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Examples of utilizing existing artifacts might include studying the cultural context of movie portrayals of African American families or analyzing publicly available town hall meeting minutes to explore expressions of social capital.
Perhaps we can expand a bit on these examples by highlighting them in a separate Student Example box. This may be a useful way to briefly explain what is meant by the earlier statement "...and remember, you want your sample of artifacts to reflect the diversity of perspectives that you have outlined for your study." Also, I think that a Student Example could bring this important hypothetical scenario to life and keep readers engaged.
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Your choice of which artifacts you choose to include will be driven by your question, and remember, you want your sample of artifacts to reflect the diversity of perspectives that you have outlined for your study.
It may be helpful to include here a Student Example box with a hypothetical scenario involving a student project using artifacts to answer a qualitative research question. Particularly when I read the last sentence of the paragraph - "...you want your sample of artifacts to reflect the diversity of perspectives that you've outlined for your study" - I wasn't quite sure exactly what this would mean for a student research project.
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For instance, a qualitative researcher may conduct observations of how mothers and children interact in a hospital setting on child and adolescent cancer units, and take notes about where exchanges take place, topics of conversation, nonverbal information, and data about the setting itself – what the unit looks like, how it is arranged, the lighting, photos on the wall.
Perhaps this "for instance" can be formatted as a Student Example. By framing this hypothetical scenario in the context of a student research project, readers may be further empowered to imagine how they themselves might collect observational data for their own projects. The same example details would be included - just in a different format.
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