Reflexões sobre a pesquisa com grupos focais nas ciências sociais e humanas: a questão da quantidade de participantes, proveniência e local de organização
This article presents some issues about the focus groups from a doctoral research in education that used the focus group technique to study the teacher's representations. In the scientific literature we find guidelines for organizing focus groups in social and human sciences. These guidelines i...
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| description | This article presents some issues about the focus groups from a doctoral research in education that used the focus group technique to study the teacher's representations. In the scientific literature we find guidelines for organizing focus groups in social and human sciences. These guidelines include the usual recommendations that focus groups should consist of 6 to 8 unknown participants, gathered in a neutral place. Although important, such conventions may lead to a tacit understanding that there would be an ideal way to work with focus groups. This article aiming at problematize these conventions presenting a research that used focusgroups out ofstandards, with 20 people who known each other in their daily work place. The results recall the importance of considering the research objectives when organizing focus group. From our experience, we conclude that conven-tions are more guidelines than prescriptions and we organize suggestions for conducting focus groups in human and social science research. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-40a995c9626b44afb920c30314f1e71c2025-02-06T23:31:43ZporUniversidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS)Ciências Sociais Unisinos2177-62292020-01-01561011210.4013/csu.2020.56.1.01Reflexões sobre a pesquisa com grupos focais nas ciências sociais e humanas: a questão da quantidade de participantes, proveniência e local de organizaçãoRicardo Fernandes PátaroGeiva Carolina CalsaThis article presents some issues about the focus groups from a doctoral research in education that used the focus group technique to study the teacher's representations. In the scientific literature we find guidelines for organizing focus groups in social and human sciences. These guidelines include the usual recommendations that focus groups should consist of 6 to 8 unknown participants, gathered in a neutral place. Although important, such conventions may lead to a tacit understanding that there would be an ideal way to work with focus groups. This article aiming at problematize these conventions presenting a research that used focusgroups out ofstandards, with 20 people who known each other in their daily work place. The results recall the importance of considering the research objectives when organizing focus group. From our experience, we conclude that conven-tions are more guidelines than prescriptions and we organize suggestions for conducting focus groups in human and social science research.http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=93868385001focus grouporigin and historyqualitative research |
| spellingShingle | Ricardo Fernandes Pátaro Geiva Carolina Calsa Reflexões sobre a pesquisa com grupos focais nas ciências sociais e humanas: a questão da quantidade de participantes, proveniência e local de organização Ciências Sociais Unisinos focus group origin and history qualitative research |
| title | Reflexões sobre a pesquisa com grupos focais nas ciências sociais e humanas: a questão da quantidade de participantes, proveniência e local de organização |
| title_full | Reflexões sobre a pesquisa com grupos focais nas ciências sociais e humanas: a questão da quantidade de participantes, proveniência e local de organização |
| title_fullStr | Reflexões sobre a pesquisa com grupos focais nas ciências sociais e humanas: a questão da quantidade de participantes, proveniência e local de organização |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reflexões sobre a pesquisa com grupos focais nas ciências sociais e humanas: a questão da quantidade de participantes, proveniência e local de organização |
| title_short | Reflexões sobre a pesquisa com grupos focais nas ciências sociais e humanas: a questão da quantidade de participantes, proveniência e local de organização |
| title_sort | reflexoes sobre a pesquisa com grupos focais nas ciencias sociais e humanas a questao da quantidade de participantes proveniencia e local de organizacao |
| topic | focus group origin and history qualitative research |
| url | http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=93868385001 |
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