Abstract
This article emphasises the meaningful interrelationship between practice,
experience, concepts and theory in the process of meaning-making in
qualitative research. The importance of existing knowledge, the researcher’s
background and stance (ontology and epistemology) and the conscious
engagement of the researcher with him/herself in a critical refl exive process
to develop new knowledge and direction to act upon will be underlined.
Moreover, this article attempts to unravel the dynamic spiral of meaningmaking
when developing a conceptual framework.