| A | B |
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| Phenomenology | The only way for us to really know what another person experiences is to experience it for ourselves. |
| Paradigm | A loose collection of assumptions, concepts and propositions that orient thinking and research… a way of looking at the world. The assumptions that people have about what is important, and what makes the world work |
| Ethnomethodology | It focuses on the ordinary, the routine, the details of everyday life (conversation). |
| Ethnography | studies cultural patterns and perspectives of participants in their natural settings |
| Critical theories | Deal with Power, inequality and social change |
| Postmodernism | What wasn´t visible before has become evident |
| Positivism | Focuses on reliable and valid tools to uncover rules (truth) |
| Social constructivism | Truth is varying, socially constructed and ever changing |
| Grounded theory | theory about phenomenon is grounded in the data of a particular setting |
| Case study | …examines the characteristics of a particular entity, phenomenon, or person |
| Action research | …teacher-initiated, school-based research used to improve the practitioner’s practice by doing or changing something |
| Qualitative research | …its methods rely heavily on “thick” verbal descriptions of a particular social context being studied |
| Quantitative research | Generalizable. It answers how many? When? Where?Tests hypothesis. |
| Research | It is organized, systematic; it analyzes and explains experience |
