Dear Dr. Laderman,
I also develop research related to the congruence of school achievement texts. I am currently developing tests to measure attitudes and critical thinking skills with hight school students in the state of Sergipe (Brazil). I would like to know if there is any possibility of knowing more about this project and if it is possible to participate as a collaborator? Sincerity,
Dr. Edson José Wartha
Dear Dr. Wartha,
The main problem here is to define a role for the observer (you) that you can take and that allows you to stay in the field or at its edge and observe it at the same time.
The more public and unstructured the field is, the easier it will be to take a role that is not conspicuous and does not influence the field. The easier a field is to overlook, the more difficult it is to participate in it without becoming a member.
More commonly used in qualitative research is participant observation.
According to Denzin (1989), participant observation will be defined as s field strategy that simultaneously combines document analysis, interviewing of respondents and informants, direct participation and observation, and introspection.
The main features of the method are that you as a researcher dive headlong into the field.
You will observer from a member's perspective but also influence what you observe due to your participation.
openness is essential when collecting data based solely on communicating with the observed.
The participant observation should be understood as a process in two respects.
First, the researcher should increasingly become a participant and gain access to the field and to persons.
Second, the observation should also move through a process of becoming increasingly concrete and concentrated on the aspects that are essential for the research questions.
The participant observation has three phases:
1. DESCRIPTIVE OBSERVATION, at the beginning, serves to provide the researcher with an orientation to the field under study. It provides nonspecific descriptions and is used to grasp the complexity of the field as far as possible and to develop (at the same time) more concrete research questions and lines of vision.
2. FOCUSED OBSERVATION narrows your perspective on those processes and problems, which are most essential for your question.
3. SELECTIVE OBSERVATION, toward the end of the data collection, is focused on finding further evidence and example for the types of practices and processes, found in the second step.
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