CHAPTER CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS IN RESEARCH distribute

32 CHAPTER TWOCHAPTER OVERVIEW AND GOALSIn this CHAPTER , we emphasize the importance of CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS in RESEARCH and discuss the central role they play in all aspects of qualitative RESEARCH . This CHAPTER begins with a discussion of what constitutes a CONCEPTUAL framework . After establishing a working sense of what a CONCEPTUAL framework is and a beginning roadmap of its uses, we focus on what it does or, more precisely, what you do with it. Following this, we discuss how to construct a CONCEPTUAL framework and provide recommended practices to help you develop one. We also include an example CONCEPTUAL framework memo that details how a researcher describes their CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS IN RESEARCHA CONCEPTUAL framework lives at the center of an empirical study. The CONCEPTUAL framework serves as a guide and ballast to RESEARCH (Ravitch & Riggan, 2016), functioning as an integrating ecosystem that helps researchers intentionally bring all aspects of a study together through a process that explicates their connec-tions, disjunctures, overlaps, tensions, and the contexts shaping a RESEARCH setting and the study of phenomena in that setting.

The conceptual framework helps you cultivate research questions and then match . the methodological aspects of the study with these questions. In this sense, the con-ceptual framework helps align the analytic tools and methods of a study with the focal topics and . core constructs. as they are embedded within the research questions. This

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