Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Qualitative Inquiry

Today . . . the start of my course on Qualitative Inquiry with Maria Maya PhD. as the instructor. (I like the play of QI and IQ)

The text for the course is Dr. Mayan's book,

ESSENTIALS OF QUALITATIVE INQUIRY 

Reading it was like coming home. Yes, yes and yes. The messy, holistic, contradictory stories are where we need to seek understanding. Yet, rigour and a clear minded, mindful approach that is keenly observant are essential parts of disciplined research and inquiry.

It feels matriarchal to me. It also feels like there are clear parallels with silence and meditation, sort of like being collected and confident enough to slow down, become very still and then listen/view/observe/understand/connect/combine/ and move towards aha moments with a clear and focused mind.

The other parallel that jumped out at me is the similarities between qualitative inquiry and design thinking

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