TY - JOUR
T1 - Developing a culturally-specific mixed methods approach to global research
AU - Creswell, John W.
AU - Sinley, Rachel C.
N1 - Funding Information:
While in-depth mixed methods courses are essential for graduate-level students, practical workshops can also provide in-depth training on the basics and intricacies of mixed methods research. Workshops can be beneficial whether they are small or large in scale, and vary in size from large-funded sessions sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, to smaller, faculty-led workshops at leading conferences such as the “Mixed Methods International Research Association Conference 2014” at Boston College in June, 2014. Leading institutions have also started providing coursework through classes and workshops. For example, in 2014, Harvard University started offering its first mixed methods course in medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, and Johns Hopkins has provided for several years a workshop in its School of Public Health on mixed methods research and mental health.
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PY - 2017/10/1
Y1 - 2017/10/1
N2 - With much of the development of mixed methods occurring through the works of scholars from the US, the UK, Canada, and the Anglos-Saxon/English-speaking countries, the discourse about a global research community must consider how it needs to be sensitive to diverse cultures. Clearly, the discussion must focus on adapting mixed methods to best fit the problems of countries, the cultural norms of conducting research, and the scholarly talents of in-country investigators. Unfortunately, the mixed methods literature is largely silent on diverse cultural adaptations of mixed methods. In this article, we first trace the involvement of worldwide countries in the historic development of mixed methods. Then, to gain a better understanding of the use and adaptation of mixed methods in diverse world academic cultures, we provide a qualitative study of themes mentioned by participants from seven different countries. From both the historical overview and the qualitative study, we end by making suggestions about specific strategies for a global discourse about mixed methods research, and suggest a de-colonizing presence of the Anglo-Saxon/English-speaking countries in the global expansion of mixed methods.
AB - With much of the development of mixed methods occurring through the works of scholars from the US, the UK, Canada, and the Anglos-Saxon/English-speaking countries, the discourse about a global research community must consider how it needs to be sensitive to diverse cultures. Clearly, the discussion must focus on adapting mixed methods to best fit the problems of countries, the cultural norms of conducting research, and the scholarly talents of in-country investigators. Unfortunately, the mixed methods literature is largely silent on diverse cultural adaptations of mixed methods. In this article, we first trace the involvement of worldwide countries in the historic development of mixed methods. Then, to gain a better understanding of the use and adaptation of mixed methods in diverse world academic cultures, we provide a qualitative study of themes mentioned by participants from seven different countries. From both the historical overview and the qualitative study, we end by making suggestions about specific strategies for a global discourse about mixed methods research, and suggest a de-colonizing presence of the Anglo-Saxon/English-speaking countries in the global expansion of mixed methods.
KW - Comparative research
KW - Cross-cultural research
KW - Cultural sensitivity
KW - Global research
KW - Methods of social research
KW - Mixed methods
KW - Post-colonialism
KW - Qualitative methods
KW - Quantitative methods
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U2 - 10.1007/s11577-017-0453-2
DO - 10.1007/s11577-017-0453-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85029620433
SN - 0023-2653
VL - 69
SP - 87
EP - 105
JO - Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
JF - Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
ER -