Blending and Adapting the Approaches

Blending and Adapting the Approaches

By this point, you should have a solid foundational understanding of the five approaches to qualitative research. In this Discussion, you will take your knowledge a step further by discussing how the approaches might be blended or adapted to suit particular research questions or topics.

To prepare for this Discussion:

• Review the required reading and media segment for this week.
• Consider situations in which blending or adapting two or more research approaches might be useful. What kinds of research questions would benefit from such a blending or adapting?

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 3, 2-3 paragraphs in which you generalize how and when research approaches could be blended or adapted for a research study.

When appropriate, be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the reading(s) and/or video program(s) and use APA format.