Qualitative Research in Malaysia

This edited volume is a systematic collection of research initiatives in the qualitative research paradigm, focusing on researchers in Malaysia. A useful guide for qualitative research methodology educators and researchers in the Sciences and Humanities as well as practitioners in any industry that involves human thought and behaviour.

Autorentext

Su Li Chong is Senior Lecturer at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia. She is Head of UTP's University Social Responsibility (Education Pillar). She is also President of Qualitative Research Association of Malaysia (QRAM). She obtained an MPhil and a PhD in Education from University of Cambridge, UK. Her research interests are in literacy and language education.

Inhalt

Contents

Lists of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Preface

SECTION 1: Forwarding Qualitative Design

1. Malaysia's knowledge journey: National Epistemological Moulding (NEM) and social research

   Su Li Chong

2. Unfolding stories: Narratives of women with breast-cancer

   Wan Hasliza Wan Mamat

3. Media diary method: Navigating the untold world of young Malaysians' use of media for identity formation

   Haryati Abdul Karim

4. Venturing out of "the norm": Challenges with flexibility and subjectivity of qualitative research design

   Kalvina A/P Chelladorai

   Wen Yea Hwong

5. Between the 'flying rocks': How narratives of a rural Sarawak community's collective anger shifted an impact study's methodological design

   Haslina Hashim

   Noor'ain Aini

   Linda Alfarero Lumayag

6. Seeing anew: Transitioning from positivism to interpretivism

   Jeffrey K. L. Yee

SECTION 2: Making use of rigour

7. Reconciling personal beliefs with the realities of grant applications: an early career qualitative researcher's narrative

   Jia Wei Lim

8. Qualitative research & publications in Malaysia: Some patterns and perspectives

   Su Li Chong

   Dahlia Janan

9. Bewitched, bothered and bewildered: Life as a qualitative researcher in a positivist jungle

   Balvinder Kaur Kler

SECTION 3: Anchoring in philosophy and axiology

10. Qualitative methodology to examine decision-making processes trans men utilise in becoming men

    Vizla Kumaresan

11. Dealing with sensitive and distressing data: A perspective from online sexism discourse researchers

    Wan Nur Asyura Wan Adnan

12. Lessons learned on sensitivity and ethics through interviewing repeat students

    Chan Choong Foong

13. Overcoming challenges and sensitivities surrounding sexual health topic

    Siti Hazariah Abdul Hamid

14. Treading carefully in murky waters: Sensitivities and sensibilities in research on ethnicity and race in Malaysia

    Mitshel Lino

Index