Tag: secondary qualitative data
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Comparing Military Blogs and Civil War Letters
This post outlines an interesting comparative research study of secondary documents (‘private’ letters and a more public blog) which could be used to get students thinking about the usefulness of such sources in social research. I’ve taken the summary below straight from Bryman (2016) Social Research Methods: It is tempting to think that the century and a half…
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Assessing the Usefulness of Secondary Qualitative Data to Research Education
How useful is secondary qualitative data when researching education? This post considers some of the theoretical, practical and ethical limitations of Public and Personal Documents which are produced in the context of education – such as OFSTED reports, school prospectuses, school reports and messages sent between pupils. Public Documents Personal Documents Ofsted and Inspection Reports School…
