An Exploratory Journey: Experience and Reflection of a Qualitative Research Methods Teacher

This article presents the author's reflective memos after each of the first five lessens in teaching qualitative research methods. The themes of the memos include starting the course with an adaptive mind, realizing the hardships in raising a research question for the beginners, improving the course quality by way of post-conference, emphasizing learning by doing and the participation of all students. Although each memo discussion is a rather micro phenomenon that occurs in the process of the course, the author attempts to analyze it in-depth by linking her own life experience with the macro sociocultural environment. In this way, the readers may understand the difficulties and strategies in teaching qualitative research methods.