April 2023
Beginner
608 pages
21h 24m
English
DOI: 10.4324/9781003377986-36
This chapter is about what many writers in both Europe, particularly the UK, and the USA refer to as quality (see Silverman 2005; Creswell 1998; Flick 2009; Mays and Pope 2000a; 2000b). While we recognize that the term is a value-laden one, we have chosen to use it as it seems to us to be an overarching term that encompasses many different views and perspectives. The literature abounds with debates about what quality is, how to recognize it and what strategies to use to accomplish it when carrying out a study. In this chapter, we attempt not only to acknowledge these but also to cut through some of them to get to the essence of quality. We begin by posing the main questions ...
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