Tesch's Overview of Qualitative Research Types

Ethnography of Communication

Content Analysis

Discourse Analysis

Ethnoscience

Structural Ethnography

Symbolic Interactionism

Ethnomethodology

Phenomenology

Action research

Qualitative evaluation

Collaborative Research

Critical/emancipatory research

Holistic ethnography

Case Study/Life history

Hermeneutics

Educational Conoisseurship

Reflective Phenomenology

Heuristic research

Transcendental realism

Event structure analysis

Grounded Theory

Ethnographic content analysis

Ecological psychology


Tesch, R. (1990). Qualitative research: Analysis Types and Software Tools. New York: Falmer.

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