The reading on Designing a Qualitative Study stood out to me, giving me more insight into how I want my organizational structure to look. A few key concepts were mentioned in the reading, like the five components: goals, conceptual framework, research questions, methods, and validity. On page 219, Joseph A. Maxwell writes that it is essential that you recognize and take account of the personal goals that drive and inform your research… what is necessary for qualitative design is that you be aware of these concerns and how they may be shaping your research and that you think about how best to deal with their consequences. This particular piece stood out to me because, as a researcher, I have not encountered times we are told to recognize our own goal of the research. I would assume personal perspectives would be biased, as they are not factual data, yet Maxwell would argue these perspectives can be valuable sources of insight, theory, and data! Your own experience may be more valuable! I could see that if I plan to work on my organization's data, then I, as an employee, can provide exciting information.
To connect both pieces of writing, I would like to say the “Systems of Care” came about by qualitative study. The System of Care Plan came to be because there was a conceptual framework questioned. Something that is going on in the world is itself problematic or has consequences that are problematic. Through experiential knowledge and existing theory/research of the working systems and collaboration of systems, you may understand what pieces are working and what needs improvement. Communicating with partners, nonprofits, families, schools, and pediatricians, they discovered what was happening in their community and what needed to be planned moving forward. Reading through the table of contents, you can see the process of the five components organized in the plan.
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