Conducting Qualitative Empirical Research: Review of the Literature

Abstract

Qualitative research has been considered for having less quality for its perceived subjectivity. Beyond the debate on the quality of the methodologies, this paper seeks to contribute to knowledge by aggregating literature in qualitative research as the point of references for qualitative researchers. This paper argues on the importance of research paradigm, method, and methodologies that have been largely ignored by social researchers. Given the educational research generally deals with people’s perception on a particular subject or the processes to attain improvement on learning deliveries, the use of qualitative research method is likely