Introduction
Qualitative research are those kind of researches that an outcome is obtained without the application of statistical methods of data analysis (Strauss and Corbin, 1990 cited in Golafshani, 2003). However, the qualitative research takes a direct approach, where the researchers arrive at a conclusion through the observation of events as they occur naturally without external interferences (Golafshani, 2003).
Ethical and methodological issues may arise, therefore in order to demonstrate the legitimacy of Qualitative research it is important to integrate rigour and trustworthiness.
Potential ethical issues
There is the need to take into consideration ethical issues that may arise from conducting qualitative researches.
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1999 cited in Tobin and Begley, (2004) Rigour is use to express integrity and competence in the qualitative research process. The absence there of, places the research in the fictional category of journalism, thus rendering it useless to enhance education (Morse et al. 2002 cited in Tobin and Begley, 2004). Many questions were raised about trustworthiness in qualitative research by the positivists, since it was noted that there were challenges to the concepts of validity and reliability in researches carried out in its natural surroundings. However, several authors on research methods, notably Silverman, identify how how qualitative researchers may incorporate various strategies to deal with these issues (Shenton, 2004). However, Lincoln and Guba, 1985 cited in Tobin and Begley, (2004) address the issues of trustworthiness in qualitative research, by introducing criteria of credibility, transferability, dependability and