The following paper presents a second-order inquiry (an investigation of research procedures), the main purpose of which was to answer questions about a) the effectiveness of different approaches to qualitative research and b) participation in qualitative research conducted in the field of social pedagogy. The authors have taken four groups of researchers, which analysed the same text, to compare various methods of text analysis and different approaches to devising a well-founded theory (by employing three distinct qualitative methods). In addition to a reflection on the research procedures in question, the second part of this paper considers the participation within qualitative research and its effects on the construction of a plausible theory.
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