There are five approaches to qualitative research. Narrative: This approach to inquiry retells someone’s story across time. It explores what the story means and the lessons to be learned. Phenomenology: The goal of phenomenological research is to describe participants’ experiences in a specific context and understand a phenomenon. Grounded theory: This type of qualitative approach investigates a process, action, or interaction with the goal of developing a theory. Ethnography: The mainstay of early culture anthropologists, ethnography is an in-depth description of a people group done through “immersed” participant observation and recorded in the vernacular of the host society. Case Study: The most common type of qualitative research, case study looks at episodic events in a definable framework bounded by time and setting. The overall purpose is generally to explain “how.”