TY - JOUR

T1 - Doubt and Excitement

T2 - An Experiential Learning Approach to Teaching the Practice of Qualitative Research

AU - Bartels, Koen

AU - Wagenaar, Hendrik

PY - 2018/4

Y1 - 2018/4

N2 - This article diagnoses that qualitative research (QR) methods courses and literature often remain silent on how to actually do QR and explores how practice theory can improve learning and teaching the practice of QR. It develops an experiential learning approach of turning experiences and emotions of doubt and excitement into a dialogical process of asking creative questions, imagining new ideas, and animating a practical relationship to the world. Based on data and observations of a summer school course in QR methods to PhD students, we present three pedagogical practices for recognizing and tolerating affective resistances to experiential learning and finding creative solutions to emergent research problems.

AB - This article diagnoses that qualitative research (QR) methods courses and literature often remain silent on how to actually do QR and explores how practice theory can improve learning and teaching the practice of QR. It develops an experiential learning approach of turning experiences and emotions of doubt and excitement into a dialogical process of asking creative questions, imagining new ideas, and animating a practical relationship to the world. Based on data and observations of a summer school course in QR methods to PhD students, we present three pedagogical practices for recognizing and tolerating affective resistances to experiential learning and finding creative solutions to emergent research problems.

U2 - 10.1177/1468794117713056

DO - 10.1177/1468794117713056

M3 - Article

VL - 18

SP - 191

EP - 206

JO - Qualitative Research

JF - Qualitative Research

SN - 1468-7941

IS - 2

ER -