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Creative interactions with data: using visual and metaphorical devices in repeated focus groups.
- Source :
- Qualitative Research; Feb2016, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p9-26, 18p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- This article presents some of the emergent methods developed to fit a study of quality in inclusive research with people with learning disabilities. It addresses (i) the ways in which the methodology was a response to the need for constructive, transformative dialogue through use of repeated focus groups in a design interspersing dialogic and reflective spaces; and (ii) how stimulus materials for the focus groups involved imaginative and creative interactions with data. Particular innovations in the blending of narrative and thematic analyses and data generation and analysis processes are explored, specifically the creative use of metaphor as stimulus and the playful adaptation of I-poems from the Listening Guide approach as writing and performance. In reflecting on these methodological turns we also reflect on creativity as an interpretive lens. The paper is an invitation for further methodological dialogue and development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ACTION research
COMMUNICATION
CREATIVE ability
FOCUS groups
INTERPROFESSIONAL relations
INTERVIEWING
LEARNING disabilities
LISTENING
METAPHOR
RESEARCH funding
TRANSLATIONS
WRITING
DATA analysis
NARRATIVES
THEMATIC analysis
RESEARCH personnel
HUMAN research subjects
PARTICIPANT-researcher relationships
POETRY (Literary form)
DEHUMANIZATION
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14687941
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Qualitative Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 112747635
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794114557993