Think of a topic you are interested in knowing more about using qualitative methods. In thinking about how to study the topic, explain how you answer a research committee wanting to know your philosophical assumptions. Using Creswell’s four philosophical assumptions, address how you might answer questions about how who you are affects your study.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers should include reference to ontological, epistemological, axiological, and methodological concerns. Answers should show understanding of these terms as well as their application. For example, a student might write about doing a school study where different perspectives are studied than his or her own (ontological), the researcher spends an extended period of time with the students at the school and uses their quotations as evidence in the write up (epistemological), what values might be examined and held by researcher (axiological), and how the process of research might use data to produce findings and conclusions based on the research subjects (methodological).
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