How Things Work - Doha Academy of Tertiary Studies

180 QUaLItatIVe ReSeaRCH
interpretation of events, acknowledging the researcher as data gatherer
and interpreter but not a main character in the play.
Managing your research project will be facilitated by keeping in
mind a selection of patches: key observations, photographs, vignettes,
and interviews, the ones most likely to appear in detail in the final report.
That comes naturally, but you can work to do it more productively, more
elegantly. (Patches are imagined in Figure 8.2.) At the same time, partly
from the circle graphic plan (Figure 10.1), you will be thinking more and
more about what may be your topics in the final report. For Ukraine,
the patches and topics are shown in Figure 10.2. In qualitative research
comes the opportunity to perceive the study as a collage of patches,
20 Patches
Liubchyk comes to school Liubchyk helping the teacher
Ms. Oksana His mother’s advocacy
Step by Step standards Questions from reporters
Stories in the newspapers The Four Corners exercise
Alexander and Ann Ministry of Education
Ailsa Cregan, a mentor Volodymyr interview
Board meeting The special “internat”
Soviet policies Ogneviuk interview
Zasenko interview Sofiy interview
Thumberlina The swallow
16 Topics
Liubchyk Liubchyk’s teacher
Teacher training in L’viv Press conference in L’viv
Teacher training in Kyiv Teacher training in Ukraine
Liubchyk’s mother Shans, a parent NGO
National context Legislation
Treatment of children with disabilities Ukrainian Step by Step Foundation
Partners Views of education policy
Views of teacher training Views of inclusion
FiGuRe 10.2. Patches and topics for the Ukraine Step by Step study.