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Research Methods Qualitative Paradigm

Research Methods Qualitative Paradigm. April 8, 2016 Dr. Paula Charbonneau-Gowdy. Methodology and Methods. … looking at the classroom as a historically evolving and culturally embedded system.

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Research Methods Qualitative Paradigm

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  1. ResearchMethodsQualitativeParadigm April 8, 2016 Dr. Paula Charbonneau-Gowdy

  2. Methodologyand Methods …lookingat theclassroom as a historicallyevolving and culturallyembeddedsystem

  3. “Increasingly, I havehad to recognizethatthe gap betweenwhatsecondacquistionresarchers do and whatteachers do has grownwider and thattheformerspendanincreasingamount of time talking to eachother in a languageonlytheyunderstand. “ (Ellis, 1997, pp. vii-viii)

  4. Teachers as trainors vs Teachers as educators

  5. Teaching as a… Craft Appliedscience A reflectiveprocess

  6. Case Study? Exploringordescribing a phenomenon in contextusing a variety of data sources ActionResearch? A (self-reflexive) inquiryundertakenbyparticipants in order to improvetheirsituations

  7. Case Study

  8. ActionResearch

  9. Tools/Methods/Strategies (Ethnographic)

  10. Issuesthatarise… Standards

  11. Issuesthatarise… Ethics

  12. Issuesthatarise… Reporting

  13. Issuesthatarise… Quality & sustainability

  14. Accurate and fairways of representingwhatteachersfind in theirresearchwillrequireunconventional new discourses and genres. ( Freeman 1998)

  15. Whatis to be gained ? Agentsratherthanrecipientsof knowledge

  16. New knowledgeforyourclassroom, school, community…

  17. International Perspectives on Teacher Research (International Perspectives on English Language Teaching) Mar 4, 2015by Simon Borg and Hugo Santiago Sanchez Contribute to thebuilding of educationaltheories of practicefor Chile

  18. Movefrom micro to macro…ecologicalperspective Context Discourses Actions PerceptionsNestedecosystems

  19. Gain a voice!!!!

  20. Questions • How can we decide which type of study is the most appropriate for our thesis? • Howdoesonedealwithissues of time and experiencein terms of teachersconductingclassroom-basedresearch? • Shouldn’t the programs that train future teachers be teaching the different approaches to research, the idea of publishing and making change? • Could Action Research help students with certain disabilities – dyslexia, asperger, ADHD, for example – to improve their learning?

  21. Questionscont’d… 5. What is the ability to go from micro to macro in Case Study dependent upon? 6. Wouldn’t the use of evolving issues force the researcher to write new questions that can make him/her deviate from the original purpose of the investigation? Should a researcher avoid, include, or save these new questions arising and use them for future investigations? 7. How can researchers be able to reduce new behaviors that might make the study to be aiming at a different problem solution?

  22. Questionscont’d… 8. How can you focus your questions so that they are not too general or broad? 9. I definitely agree with the fact that it is powerful in order to explore our issue in depth but if we go deeply into the sub-units during the research, would it become more subjective? Or would it provide objective insights for researches? 10. In CS, the researcher has a role of detached observer in order to produce theoretical knowledge about a singular situation.

  23. Questionscont’d… 12. I really want to explore what students think about in order to answer my questions and find ways to improve the issues but I am afraid they may not open their minds so I need to find the best qualitative methods to grasp their inner feelings and thoughts.

  24. Questionscont’d… 13. Should it be a major concern about the lack of interest expressed by some teachers to participate and get involved in investigations or studies? Why is it that most of the teachers have never ever carried out any research in their own contexts, even when they may know they are one of the two main protagonists in charge of making huge changes possible?

  25. GroupActivity 1. Youhavebeenteaching in a new schoolsincethebeginning of thesemester and youhave come to understandthatmany of theinnovativepracticesthatyouwouldlike to putintopractice in theclassroom are notbeingtoleratedbytheadministration. Knowingthatyouhaverecentlyreceivedyour Masters degreethe head of theschool has askedyou to conductsomeresearchthatwould lead to improvements in learning in theschool. Withyourgroup, developquestionsthatyoumight use to frame a study and decide on a Case StudyorActionResearchmethodology and thetoolsthatyoumight use to collectthe data.

  26. GroupActivity 2 Develop a scenarioforanothergroup in theclassforyourclassmates to develop a researchmethodology and choosetoolsfor data collection.

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