Template analyse: handig, maar bij verkeerde toepassing vooroordeelbevestigend

Abstract

Template analysis: Useful, but prejudice-affirming if applied incorrectly Template analysis offers useful methodological steps to perform thematic analysis, but an important presentation of these steps contains philosophical and methodological misspecifications. These misspecifications not only lead to questionable prescriptions, they also provide the possibility for a prejudiceaffirming way of research with potential adverse scientific and societal consequences. The misspecifications include the allowance of verificationism and the philosophically incorrect and scientifically questionable use of the terms ‘induction’ and ‘deduction’. To be scientifically sound, the specification of the steps of template analysis should be such as to ensure a fit between the data, the interpretations, the themes, the literature, and the final scientific conclusions by emphasizing the centrality of honest and responsible abductive open coding.