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Philosophical Differences between Qualitative and Quantitative Paradigms and Approaches

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The most appropriate research design in this case is the phenomenology that falls under qualitative methods. Phenomenology works in such a way as to give an understanding of one’s perception on an idea, event or situation. This research design would facilitate the answers of the additional questions of the instructors on the feeling of the intervention and the influence this has on the students, both within and without the classroom. The students’ interpretation of the intervention helps the instructors understand their students much better.

Different students giving their thoughts and views of the influence of the intervention will help give the instructors a general idea of the students’ experience for the sake of better understanding. Greater focus is given to the students and their thoughts on the matter of intervention. Their interpretations on the same are paramount to arriving at either a solution or a general idea that will help with how the matter is handled and to help improve the understanding for the students included in the research (Frost, 2011).

The philosophical paradigm behind phenomenology is interpretivism, which is an influence or guide to the qualitative research. It helps give an idea on the subjective thoughts and experiences of the students, in this case. Various thoughts shared on knowledge are all taken to be correct since there is no right route to acquiring knowledge. Any and every theory put forward is taken to be just as important as the next. The instructors will judge the thoughts and theories put forward by the students are judged greatly through how interesting they are as opposed to whether or not they are viewed to be correct (American Psychological Association, 2010).

The students’ thoughts and interpretations of the knowledge put forward as well as meaning of the intervention is what counts in this case to the instructors, given the research design and the philosophical paradigm underlying phenomenology. The phenomena on intervention is well understood through the meanings that the various students assign to the intervention that they get a feel of as well as how they view the influence of the same.

There are various assumptions that the instructors will be required to set aside with regard to the qualitative research study, and in this case, phenomenology. The instructors will have to temporarily set aside assumptions such as expecting all the students, if not some, to end up with the same conclusion of the view of the intervention. They will also have to give way to ideas that had not been planned for. This is to say that new ideas will come up given the difference in thought as well as meaning given by different students (Bryman, 2006).

Ethical issues are bound to surface in the case of qualitative research. On that note, these ethical issues include the ability of the researchers or instructors to make informed decisions since this research method does not require any analysis of statistical data therefore, requiring them to carry out evaluation of their observations as well as interpreting data collected through observation. This ought to be done in order to ensure that the results are objective.

Other ethical issues or challenges that researchers come across, for instance, confidentiality of the researchers could be difficult to do. The potential impact of the students on the researchers or instructors as well as that of the instructors on the students is another issue since it could to results being skewed. Anonymity is another issue that is not easy to deal with when instructors or researchers are not careful. Informed consent is the final issue towards the instructors involved (Ponterotto, 2013).

The difference between the dismantling research design and paradigm used before, and the phenomenology and paradigm used is the characteristics that either holds. As for the dismantling design, focus is on larger sample sizes while phenomenology focuses on smaller samples like the students. Answers expected in the dismantling research design were objective while those in phenomenology were subjective of the thoughts of the students. Data presented in the dismantling research design are in statistical values while data in phenomenology is based on observation and interpretation.

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