Write notes on Need of qualitative research in the field of Education
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Qualitative research is a range of kinds of research, the common feature of which is reliance on unstructured data and on forms of data analysis that are non-numerical. The data may take the form of fieldnotes written by the researcher in the course of observation or interviews, audio or video recordings carried out by the researcher in natural settings or interviews, documents of various kinds (publicly available or personal; paper-based or electronic; already available or elicited by the researcher) and even material artefacts. The use of these data is informed by various methodological or philosophical assumptions, as part of various methods, such as ethnography (of various kinds), discourse analysis (of various kinds), interpretative phenomenological analysis and other phenomenological methods