Qualitative Data Collection

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Educators live in a world where everyone has an array of thoughts about edu-cation. This multitude of ideas, opinions, and beliefs, generated throughoutpeople s lives, makes the world of Qualitative evidence both rich and purpose of this chapter is to help the novice PAR researcher sort through andimplement Qualitative data Collection . Conversations, notes, e-mails, voice mails,interviews, and focus groups all have potential to become Qualitative data. PARresearch holds itself to the standard of being responsive to the community inwhich the researchers are based. Therefore, Qualitative data Collection will besome part, most often the greatest component, of the data on which a PAR teamdraw their experience the same set of circumstances differently. This concept isvividly illustrated in Akira Kurosawa s film Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950),inwhich a crime witnessed by four individuals is described in four mutually con-tradictory ways.

implement qualitative data collection. Conversations, notes, e-mails, voice mails, interviews, and focus groups all have potential to become qualitative data. PAR research holds itself to the standard of being responsive to the community in which the researchers are based. Therefore, qualitative data collection will be

  Interview, Qualitative