Th is article discusses the fundamental principles of qualitative research:
contextual sensitivity, understanding, interpretative reconstruction and refl exivity.
Th e principle of contextual sensitivity focuses on qualitative research study of
the phenomenon in its socio-cultural and dialogical setting, and the principle of
understanding — the study of subjective values and meaning in the positions of
the various groups. Th e principles of interpretation of refl exivity give an answer to the question about the methodological tool for qualitative research — how
to connect data and formulated analytical synthesis, validity assessment which
involves tracking and monitoring impact of refl exive attitudes of the researcher.
Th ese principles are formulated on the basis of theoretical analysis and practical
experience with qualitative methods and prove the relevancy of combining them
into a single methodological approach that is implemented in various directions
and strategies of qualitative data analysis. Th e authors emphasize conceptual unity
of qualitative research and the underlying common methodology.
This article is the study of manual motor activity (his spatial and dynamic
organization, interhemispheric transfer and coordination). The study of 58 children
(healthy and with the Down syndrome), demonstrate the genesis of cerebral
asymmetry and interhemispheric coordination, and the grave disturbances of these
functions in dysontogenesis.
