Collaborative approaches in Inquiry Methodology

There are many slightly same terms and concepts for discussing the multiple researcher for inquiring a mutual interest. Team, multiple users, collaboration are used to define the co-operated research and study. In this blog, I am going to employ “collaboration” as a main categorical term for conceptualizing my approach towards the co-operated research. In this week, multiple users and their works with CAQDAS are discussed in terms of theoretical, conceptual and methodological. I looked at many main texts to define and try to articulate the term in qualitative manner.  Collaborative approaches are mainly framed as a comprehensive chapter in Qualitative Research: The essential guide to theory and practice (Savin-Baden & Major, 2013). While reading my course articles, I got many questions about using Qualitative Software and cooperative usage for the research. I can say that I have many concerns and critiques about the team, multiplicity and cooperation.

My first concern is resulted from the differences researchers and participants. I can say that I have positive ideas and thoughts about Action Research. Collaborative inquiry can be seen as action research types in which we can focus on praxis rather than the traditional segregations like participant and researchers. What I wonder about the spirit of collaborative inquiry is that in what ways we can provide the diversity not multiplicity. What I mean that researchers from same fields can be seen as multiple users. Moreover, I would like to ask that how we can delimit the domination of one filed and one types of professionals in conducting the mutual research. In my opinion, most of the CAQDAS tools can provide many ways to overcome these kinds of limitations.

Collaborative approaches are going to proliferate mainly four types which are cooperative, collaborative, appreciative and deliberative (Savin-Baden & Major, 2013, p.259).  These approaches seem to me more helpful to think about the usage of CAQDAS tools since we should think about how we experience them for the sake of our interest, not about to what extend we use them for the sake of our research.

Savin-Baden, M., & Major, C. (2013). Qualitative research: The essential guide to theory and practice. Retrieved from http://scholar.google.com.ezproxy.lib.indiana.edu/scholar?q=Baden+and+Major+qualitative+research+essential+guide&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C15#0