Indigenous community participation: How does it relate to student centered learning and embrace primary health care philosophies?

Adopted Research Designs by Tourism and Hospitality Postgraduates in The Light ‎of Research Onion

“…Grounded theory is concerned with gathering a logically reliable set of data and investigating actions to discover theory or develop it (Reiter et al, 2011). It begins with a methodical, inductive, comparative, and interactive approach to collect and analyze data and contains developing categories of examination which has emerged from successive analysis over theoretical and deductive reasoning (Biles & Biles, 2010). This entails that the researcher does not have to be attentive to hypotheses testing which is taken from prevailing theoretical frameworks, but rather improves a new theory (Dunne, 2011).…”

Epilogue

“…Importantly, this area of health care is one that deserves special attention and we commend the editors on the decision to once again make this a feature of the journal. The authors submitted a range of interesting and important papers covering issues of direct relevance to clinical health care, such as anti-smoking projects (Robertson, 2010;Thompson, 2010), issues surrounding access to health care services (Van Herk, Smith, & Andrew, 2010), nurses' experiences caring for circumcised patients (Mangena, Mulaudzi, & Peu, 2010), and other important areas such as education of nurses, ways to increase the numbers of Indigenous students (Biles & Biles, 2010;Meissner, 2010;Stuart & Nielsen, 2010;West, West, West, & Usher, 2010), and issues related to culture (Blackman, 2010;Downing & Kowal, 2010;Rigby et al, 2010). While most of the papers submitted were from Australian authors, we were very pleased to receive and accept two papers from international authors for the special edition (one from Canada and one from South Africa).…”