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Stakeholders Understanding in Qualitative Research

Qualitative research is used by a variety of methods to develop deep understanding of how people perceive their social realities and how they act within the social world. Qualitative is exploratory and seeks to explain “how” and “why” a particular phenomenon, or behaviour, operates as it does in particular context or situation. The qualitative research is a situated activity that allows the researcher to be with the target audience of study to experienced their situation and have an actual knowledge of it. From this we will be able to identify and interpret the data available. Plausibility in qualitative research is a method of deriving new conclusions from a given known premises reason why we need to get new data to support the study and make new conclusions, solutions or even suggestions to the problem.

Qualitative researchers are interested in understanding the meaning people have constructed, that is, how people make sense of their world and the experiences they have in the world. (Merriam, 2009, p.13)

The most important part of the research is to know “what is the question that you want to get an answer for”. To be able for the study to be understood by the readers or the target audience a research protocol is essential map for the research that would serve as a guide to the researcher to focus on the study, (Bricki & Green, 2009).

Aims and Objectives – is the “what” of the study including broad aim (what you are going to do) broken down into measurable objectives. The dissertation aim’s to create awareness that we have aging farmers in the Philippines. The objective is to mobilize the youth to be the next generation of farmers in the Philippines.

Background-“ Why” this is an interesting, important or policy relevant question, and what we already know about the dissertation or topic. The study affects the lives of entire industry not just a community, the rice shortage and rice importation cannot be able to sustain the demand of rice in the country.

Ethical Issues- raised by this study, whether there is a need for ethical appraisal and how you will address them. Ethical issue in this study will be how this is relevant to their behaviour and the result of it.

Resources- skills; interpreting/ translation, data input/analysis. Qualitative research is generating data that is primarily in the use of words. Interviews such as individual/group, audio/video. Participant observation in natural setting is important to this study.

Time scale- is how long this will take.

Dissemination/output- who will be your target and how do you want to disseminate your conclusions. The target audience will be the rural youth for them to be encouraged to take charge on cultivating their farmlands. By conducting interviews and seminars including NGO’s, people from the academe, people involve in agriculture and government agencies.

The Evaluation of Qualitative Research according to Horsburgh, 2002 require identification and application, in order to provide a formalized and rigorous approach to critical appraisal;

The need for researcher reflexivity The use of the ‘first person’ in academic work The context in which research takes place The active acknowledgement of ‘lay’ knowledge Researcher flexibility within the research process The generalizability of findings

Reflexivity refers to active acknowledgment by the researcher that her/his own actions and decisions will inevitably impact upon the meaning and context of the experience under investigation.

Reflexivity is the first person when the researcher describes the aspects of the research in which the researcher has personal involvement or affected. The actual place, location or the study situated.

The existing knowledge or first-hand information of the people or audience on the topic to be study. For example the aging farmers cultivating the land and shortage of young people who are willing to be the next generation of farmers.

Researcher should be able to deal and communicate with the aging-farmers, rural youth, government agencies involve in the study, the non-government organizations who are concern to the welfare of farmers in the country and educators who can contribute and develop the agriculture system.