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Reflection On Qualitative Research

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I first heard about Qualitative Research in the research methodology class that I attended during my first semester at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). Qualitative research is a type of research method used to explore issues at hand, understand subject matter, and answer research questions by analyzing unstructured data received from target participants.
From what I understood in class, qualitative research is about finding out not just what people think, but why they think it. It is about getting people to voice their opinions in order that others can understand their motivations, feelings, and experiences regarding the subject matter. From what I understood of my class readings, the qualitative research method is designed …show more content…

Qualitative research was one of the subjects to be taken, as well as quantitative research. Qualitative research is a core subject for all PhD students of the University. The teaching method used by the lecturer was by way of class discussion, whereby students were responsible for driving the discussion. Well, since I had already grasped in my mind the basic concept of qualitative research from last semester, on the first day of the second semester lesson I sat in class with confidence that I knew what qualitative research is all about. I was later given a whole stack of reading materials on qualitative research to read, to enable me to participate in the discussion in the next …show more content…

It is actually much more than that. Qualitative research aims to get a better understanding of issues through firsthand experiences, truthful reporting, and noting down quotations of actual conversations. It aims to understand how participants derive meaning from their surroundings, and how this meaning influences their behaviour. After going through the reading materials, I embarked on attempting to understand a few jargon words that stood out, such as ontology, epistemology, reflexivity, and methodology. “Wow! What is the meaning of all these words?”, I questioned myself. I kept reading the words again and again. Well, qualitative research is not as simple as what I first thought! I read the material back and forth a couple of times with a relaxed mind, trying to figure out its meanings from different

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