Embodiment and Abduction: Conversation with Charles Vanover and Paul Mihas: Video for MethodSpace
Channel: The After The Interview Project Data Analysis
Date: 2021-10-05

Charles Vanover, Associate Professor at the University of South Florida, and Paul Mihas, the Assistant Director of Qualitative Research at the Odom Institute of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, discuss two core concepts in qualitative research, "embodiment" and "abduction." The term embodiment describes researchers’ efforts to physically incorporate qualitative data and engage with research content with the body and the mind. Abduction is a form of imaginative reasoning that attempts to understand surprises and puzzles in the data. Charles and Paul have created a companion blogpost to this discussion published at SAGE MethodSpace 

ADD 

00:00 Introduction
00:46 Embodiment as a Practice of Qualitative Data Analysis
04:03 Abduction as a Practice of Qualitative Data Analysis
06:40 Careful Inquiry is the Best Fuel for the Qualitative Imagination
9:50 Embodiment in the Field of Education
11:57 Teaching Embodiment and Abduction as Practices of Qualitative Data Analysis
20:42 Embodiment and Abduction for Beginning Qualitative Researchers
23:46 Ethnodrama as a Means to Embody the Data 
32:45 Transcription as a Tool for Embodiment and Data Analysis
38:51  Embracing the Qualitative Imagination

This video is a companion to a MethodSpace blog post and video by Andrea J. Bingham on deductive and inductive reasoning
Andrea's blogpost: https://www.methodspace.com/blog/qualitative-research-design-and-data-analysis-deductive-and-inductive-approaches
Andrea's video: https://youtu.be/e1OCkH21NdE

This content is published as part of the new book from SAGE, Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative Research: After the Interview, co-edited by Charles Vanover, Paul Mihas, and Johnny Saldaña. To order the book from SAGE or request a review copy

https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/analyzing-and-interpreting-qualitative-research/book270977

SAGE MethodSpace Community Members receive 30% off the regular price until 1/1/2022 with this Coupon Code: SAGE30.  

About Charles Vanover
Charles Vanover is Associate Professor in Educational Leadership at the University of South Florida. He entered the field of qualitative studies working as a qualitative data analyst at the University of Michigan on the Study of Instructional Improvement.  Charles’s 10 ethnodramas have been performed more 60 times, including 25 peer-reviewed sessions. Beyond "Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative Research," Charles is co-editing a book on assessing performance-based research that examines “Chicago Butoh,” a film and a set of live performances he developed with Bob Devin Jones. 
Charles’ Inquiry Theatre Facebook page may be found at:     https://www.facebook.com/InquiryTheatre/
His Google Scholar page and USFSP Nelson Library Archive pages can be found at: 
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QAeGBSkAAAAJ&hl=en
https://works.bepress.com/charles-vanover/

About Paul Mihas
Paul Mihas is Assistant Director of Education and Qualitative Research at the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He teaches qualitative methods at the Global School in Empirical Research Methods at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, the BI Norwegian Business School, and the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He serves as faculty at the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research and the annual Qualitative Research Summer Intensive. Recent publications include chapters on qualitative data analysis in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods in Education (2019) and in Research Design and Methods: An Applied Guide for the Scholar-Practitioner (SAGE, 2019) 

Paul Mihas's page at the Odum Institute can be found at:
https://odum.unc.edu/people/mihas/