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Assignment:
Explain what social change means to you as a Walden doctoral candidate. What experiences from the course most influenced your understanding?
Explain what in qualitative research you would like to know more about as a result of taking this course.
Reflect on your problem statement (One major problem that has an adverse effect on the outcomes and general well-being of foster children and their families is the disjointed communication among cooperating entities that assist children in the foster care system) and the next steps for developing a research topic for your dissertation or doctoral study. Include an explanation of whether you would choose a qualitative approach, why or why not.
References:
Ravitch, S. M., & Carl, N. M. (2021). Qualitative research: Bridging the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological (2nd ed.) Sage Publications.
Epilogue "Revisiting the Horizontal Vales in Qualitative Research" (pp. 372-378)
Chapter 11, "Qualitative Research Proposals" (pp. 325-370)
Rubin, H. J., & Rubin, I. S. (2012). Qualitative interviewing: The art of hearing data (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Chapter 14, "Personal Reflections on Responsive Interviewing" (pp. 234-242)
Bald, L. (2016). A qualitative doctoral candidate experience [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 6 minutes.
Lewis, C. (2016). A qualitative doctoral candidate experience [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 7 minutes.
In these media programs, Walden University former and current doctoral candidates discuss their qualitative dissertations and why they chose this particular topic.