Thematic Analysis (TA) is an umbrella term for a set of approaches for analysing qualitative data that share a focus on developing themes (patterns of meaning) (kako se vec zovu).
It is a suitable tool for analyzing people’s views and opinions, behaviours or practices and individual experiences, which was the aim of the survey I conducted when exploring the students’ relationship to their classroom.
TA can go more narrow into capturing ‘codes’ or ‘themes’ ~ hence the latter was more relevant to my study as code is more of a single idea associated with a segment of data is identified with a pithy coding label – too ‘short and direct’ unlike themes that allow a wider scope (“different facets of that singular idea”).
This conceptualised analysis is according to Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2022) a situated and interactive process, reflecting both the data, the positionality of the researcher, and the context of the research itself – so a subjective process, making it a a co-production on the part of the researcher, the data/participants and context, rather than a process where themes simply emerge. Co-production is definitively a direction that this ARP aims to take, as I intend to create an event or vision of the space to be transformed with the students in the forth-coming Academic year 2024/25.