{"id":468,"date":"2019-07-04T12:46:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T19:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/?page_id=468"},"modified":"2019-07-07T19:23:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T02:23:35","slug":"strengths-and-challenges-appreciative-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/communication-in-the-public-interest-resources\/methods\/chapter-1\/strengths-and-challenges-of-different-approaches\/strengths-and-challenges-appreciative-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Strengths and Challenges: Appreciative Inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Brief Description:<\/h5>\n<p>Appreciative inquiry\u00a0 (AI) can be used in conjunction with many other methods. Using AI means that research questions are framed to inspire positive and future-focused responses.<\/p>\n<p>For more on appreciative inquiry and appreciative inquiry question design you can jump ahead to <a href=\"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/communication-in-the-public-interest-resources\/methods\/chapter-3-collecting-data\/appreciative-inquiry\/\">Chapter 3: Collecting data \u2013 Appreciative Inquiry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h5>Strengths:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Good for program development and evaluation.<\/li>\n<li>Encourages participants to focus on the positive, so avoids the group research becoming an opportunity to air grievances.<\/li>\n<li>Facilitates the collection of very rich data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Challenges:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Some participants may dominate the conversation.<\/li>\n<li>Transcription and analysis may be difficult\/time consuming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Tips From the Professor:<\/strong> AI is always used in conjunction with other methods, it does not stand alone, but is a method of data collection design that can be used with interviews, focus groups, indigenous methodologies and even in survey design!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6>&gt;&gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/communication-in-the-public-interest-resources\/methods\/chapter-1\/strengths-and-challenges-of-different-approaches\/strengths-and-challenges-world-cafe\/\">Next: World Caf\u00e9<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6>&lt;&lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/communication-in-the-public-interest-resources\/methods\/chapter-1\/strengths-and-challenges-of-different-approaches\/\">Back to Strengths and Challenges<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brief Description: Appreciative inquiry\u00a0 (AI) can be used in conjunction with many other methods. Using AI means that research questions are framed to inspire positive and future-focused responses. For more on appreciative inquiry and appreciative inquiry question design you can jump ahead to Chapter 3: Collecting data \u2013 Appreciative Inquiry. Strengths: Good for program development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":0,"parent":446,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-468","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468\/revisions\/679"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/jhodson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}