Description: I am a Researcher, writer, and student in Jamestown, Rhode Island, USA. Ask me about qual research.
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I’m Jane Gilgun. I used to be a prof at the University of Minnnesota. Now I'm a retired prof living a wonderful life in Rhode Island where I'm enjoying the deliciousness of time to enjoy being alive. I have two horses, Ellie who is 31 and an Arab, and Finn who is 21 and a half Arab. They are mother and son. Ellie was recently diagnoses with an inflammation of her left eye, a condition called moon blindness. She may go blind in that eye. I am heartbroken.
You can read one of my articles with a click on the button above. I have many other articles and books available on Amazon and Wordpress. My topics are qualitative research in the Chicago School tradition, human development, and violence prevention. I also have more than 300 videos on YouTube.
I have done a lot of work on deductive qualitative analysis, which is a way of using theory from the start in qualitative research. We can use concepts from theory as sensitizing or we can test theory. Testing theory qualitatively requires that we conduct interviews, observations, and document analysis with an open mind, by setting our theories aside is order to give space for people and their activities to take their own courses without our undue interference through pre-formulated questions and ideas.