Through interactive lectures, discussions and hands – on experiences, this course enables students to get acquitted with the philosophy, assumptions and principles in the qualitative paradigm. The students are introduced to different ways of knowing, understanding of multiple realities and the appreciation that reality is a social construction. The course also gives students an opportunity to creatively work with diverse data types and produce coherent and relevant explanations and interpretations using different theoretical stances
Specifically the course is designed to enable students to;a) Identify an appropriate research strategy for their research problem.b) Critically review and make use of relevant literature to inform their study.c) Construct and utilize appropriate data collection techniques for their research.d) Critically examine their personal perceptions and their implications to the research processe) Gain skills and knowledge in generating codes, writing memos, and using them to make explanations and descriptionsf) Write reports
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