New Possibilities and Challenges for Qualitative Research Through the Reuse of Records of Practice

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  In Roundtable Session: Revisiting Approaches to Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis

Abstract

This paper discusses the special challenges and possibilities of making qualitative multimedia data – particularly multimedia records of practice – available for secondary use by researchers and other education professionals. Through a series of semi-structured interviews, the authors examined the perspectives, practices, and experiences of researchers who collect records of practice and/or those who use records of practice produced by others. We discuss several significant themes that emerged in the interviews, including considerations of (a) data quality, (b) data confidentiality, and (c) collective work and perspectives in qualitative research. Despite persistent challenges in making records of practice available for reuse, it holds great promise for enabling new types of research and allowing broader participation in qualitative inquiry.

Authors

• Kara Suzuka, University of Michigan

• Elizabeth Yakel, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor