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QUALITATIVE INQUIRY
Volume 21, Issue 4, Pages 332-342Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1077800414563803
Keywords
subjectivity; reflexivity; bias; objectivity; teaching qualitative research methods; doctoral education
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Researchers who have been prepared in positivist traditions to social research frequently equate subjectivity with bias, which is viewed as both a problem to be managed and a threat to the credibility of a study. Teachers of qualitative research methods are familiar with questions about subjectivity that invoke bias from newcomers to qualitative research. This article revisits the methodological literature to examine how bias has been understood in qualitative inquiry. We argue for an approach to teaching qualitative research methods that assists students to make sense of long-standing and new debates related to bias and reconceptualize it in relation to their work. We provide recommendations for how teachers of qualitative inquiry might do this and illustrate these strategies with examples drawn from methodological reflections completed by a graduate student taking qualitative coursework.
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