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Sally Thorne, RN, PhD, FCAHS Professor and Director UBC School of Nursing Vancouver, BC

Methodological Conventions in Transition: Shifting the Balance between Theorizing and Application. Sally Thorne, RN, PhD, FCAHS Professor and Director UBC School of Nursing Vancouver, BC. Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research

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Sally Thorne, RN, PhD, FCAHS Professor and Director UBC School of Nursing Vancouver, BC

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  1. Methodological Conventions in Transition: Shifting the Balance between Theorizing and Application Sally Thorne, RN, PhD, FCAHS Professor and Director UBC School of Nursing Vancouver, BC Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing University of Toronto Sept 27, 2010

  2. Location • Discipline • Training • Conceptual Orientation

  3. Nursing

  4. Methodological Affinities

  5. Confronting Resistance • Health science community • Social scientist colleagues • Grant reviewers/Journal editors • Paradigm thinking

  6. Methodolatry “slavish attachment and devotion to method” “a preoccupation with selecting and defending methods to the exclusion of the actual substance of the story being told.” Janesick, V. J. (1994). The dance of qualitative research design: Metaphor, methodolatry, and meaning. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (pp. 209–219). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

  7. Rule-Alignment

  8. The Entrée: Tabula Rasa “Nothing is known…”

  9. Researcher Role Abdication “The data speak for themselves….”

  10. The Convenient Exit “Saturation was achieved…”

  11. The Primacy of Abstraction “The overarching metaphor….”

  12. Narrative Imperative “My study participants speak their truth…”

  13. The Meaning of Meaning “My journey…..”

  14. Truth Claim Grandiosities Lachrymal validity Adulatory credibility

  15. Theory in Qualitative Health Research

  16. Epistemological Differences Social Science Health Science

  17. What Theory Privileges and What it Obscures

  18. The Fallout of Borrowed Theoretical Tradition • Losing the disciplinary grip • Manipulating language signifiers • Discrediting the field with fuzziness and irrelevance

  19. A Necessary but Not Sufficient Schism?

  20. Emancipation of Qualitative Health Research

  21. Applied Qualitative MethodologyThe Next Generation

  22. Venturing Beyond Descriptionand Theorizing

  23. Using Research to Bring a Clinical Angle of Vision into the Evidence-Based Context • Limits of conventional science • Experiential phenomena not amenable to measurement • Patterns in experience • Commonalities and variations • Critical reflection on context

  24. Applied Qualitative Research as a Corrective to Big Science

  25. Illuminator

  26. Variance Interpreter

  27. Challenger

  28. Humanizer

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