¶ … customer's source] states that there are various types of qualitative approaches to research including the education filed approaches which includes the ecological psychology approach, the holistic ethnography approach, the cognitive anthropology approach, the ethnography of communication approach and symbolic interactionism. In the field of nursing, qualitative approaches to research are inclusive of phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and historical research. Also used in the field of education are anthropological perspectives, sociological perspectives, biological perspectives, case studies, personal accounts, cognitive studies and historical inquiries. In the field of sociology and nursing the grounded theory, ethnography, phenomenology, life histories, and conversational analysis are used. In the field of nursing used are phenomenology, ethnography, ethnoscience, and grounded theory. (Ibid, nd, p.7) Research design that is qualitative is reported to begin with "philosophical assumptions that the inquirers make in deciding to undertake a qualitative study." (Ibid, nd, p.7) Researchers are reported to "bring their own worldviews, paradigms, or sets of beliefs to the research project, and these inform the conduct and the writing of the qualitative study." (Ibid, nd, p.7) The researchers in qualitative research utilize interpretive as well as theoretical frameworks in developing...

(Ibid, nd paraphrased)
It is reported that five philosophical assumptions lead to an individual's choice of qualitative research including those of; (1) ontology; (2) epistemology; (3) axiology; (4) rhetorical; and (5) methodological. (Ibid, nd, p.15) The qualitative researcher is reported to choose a "stance on each of thee assumptions" and as such the choice the researcher makes has implications that are practical in nature for the design and conduction of the research study. The paradigms of the research are such that evolve over time as the research progresses. There are reported to be four paradigms that are brought to qualitative research study including those of: (1) postpositivism; (2) constructivism; (3) advocacy/participatory; and (4) pragmatism. (Ibid, nd, p.15) Each of these are representative of paradigms that are different in stating claims concerning knowledge and each of these have characteristics that distinguish them from one another. (Ibid, nd, paraphrased)

There are five approaches to qualitative inquiry and one of these is narrative research, which comes in many forms and makes use of various practices in analysis and as well "is rooted in different social and humanities disciplines." 9 p.53) Narrative is a term that may be relative to any text or discourse and may even be text that is utilized within the qualitative research inquiry. When research…