Teaching Qualitative Research

Abstract

Explicitly qualitative research has never before been so popular in human geography, and this article hopes to encourage more graduate students and faculty members to undertake the teaching of qualitative geography. The article describes one such course for graduate students, highlighting its challenges and rewards, and focusing on exercises undertaken by the students that encourage them to explore various qualitative approaches, techniques, strategies and theoretical perspectives including archival research, interviewing, transcription, participant observation, writing field notes, analytic memos, coding data and thinking/writing reflexively.