2022 年 1 巻 2 号 p. 85-101
Positive Deviance (PD) is defined as "an approach to social and organizational change that enables communities to discover and act upon the wisdom they already possess." Since the concept was established in Vietnam in the 1990s to address the issue of child malnutrition, it has been used to solve complex social problems. When PD is actually utilized as an approach to solving problems, it is necessary to proceed using quantitative and qualitative research methods, and thus has high compatibility with the mixed research method (MMR). By promoting mutual understanding, not only will this bring social issue practice and research closer together and promote the creation of findings that are highly applicable and practical in the real world, but it is also expected to produce highly novel academic results due to the shift in thinking required by the use of PD. This paper is presented at the pre-conference workshop of the Mixed Asia Regional Conference of the International Society for Mixed Research Methods held in October 2021, where the author introduced PD in relation to MMR with the aim of encouraging many MMR researchers to incorporate PD into their own research activities and to incorporate it into their research practice This paper summarizes the contents of the workshop in an organized manner.
