The business of validity, reliability and authentic need: Arts-based approaches to researching practice

© 2015 Sense Publishers. All Rights Reserved. All qualitative research, which is by definition the investigation of ideas, life features and phenomena surrounding issues that occur in natural settings, must align itself with notions of quality and especially equality. The qualitative research process that we will begin to explore here attempts to review the purposes for and reasons behind people’s particular modes of engagement with the world.