art approaches
- Participant-response activities: various media to engage
2. Participant-generated activities: drawing, pictures
Advantages of participant-response and participant-generated, artbased approaches:
- Calms participants by steering the focus for the discussion.
- Enhances brainstorming.
- Break up the monotony/repetitiveness of another lengthy method (e.g., a long interview)
- Personalise the activity by providing participants with the opportunity to share or create photographs, diaries, and other artefacts themselves.
- Engage with particular populations in ways that best suit their stage of development or personal circumstances.
Pros of audio visual
Unobtrusive/discrete collection possible
• Provides novel data collection sources which can support other data sources or stand alone
• Cultural way for individuals and
groups to capture and express their
opinions, perceptions, feelings,
experiences.
cons of audio visual
- Interpretation difficulty
- May not be accessible
- May require publisher’s permission
- Need to get advice about legal aspects (e.g., invasion of privacy, breach of copyright)
Explain transferability
Give readers enough of the context and participant details to enable them to decide if findings are relevant to their own setting.
Questions to Act to Discover Preferred Approach
Biography
If I could discover the meaning of one person’s lived experience
Questions to Act to Discover Preferred Approach
phenomenology
If I could discover the shared lived experiences of one quality or phenomenon in others
Questions to Act to Discover Preferred Approach
ethnography
If I could experience a different culture by living/observing it, I would choose to experience
Questions to Act to Discover Preferred Approach
case study
If I could discover what actually occurred and was experienced in a single lived event,
Questions to Act to Discover Preferred Approach
grounded theory
if I could discover a theory for a single phenomenon of living as shared by others
