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201: Week Three

201: Week Three. Approaching Research. Agenda. Follow-up from last week web site critique time logs Research Approaches Reading Next week’s assignment. Spending your time wisely … this week’s hint:. Meetings (too many?). Keeping yourself organized. Scientific Research .

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201: Week Three

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  1. 201: Week Three Approaching Research

  2. Agenda • Follow-up from last week • web site critique • time logs • Research Approaches • Reading • Next week’s assignment

  3. Spending your time wisely …this week’s hint:

  4. Meetings (too many?)

  5. Keeping yourself organized

  6. Scientific Research • Scholarship and research discussion online • Greenwoood and Levin’s definition: “investigative activity capable of discovering that the world is or is not organized as our preconceptions lead us to expect and suggesting grounded ways of understanding and acting on it”

  7. Approaching Research • Tomorrow’s Professor – In general, doing research as a grad student and post-doc • Pasteur’s Quadrant – understanding notions of basic and applied science • Research Design – epistemology, theory/philosophy, methodology, methods • Action Research – focus on iterative, collaborative, situated research

  8. Tomorrow’s Professor Take home messages: Do the RIGHT research AND do the research RIGHT Breadth-on-depth Types of advisors Ask yourself the important questions about your research and advisor

  9. Pasteur’s Quadrant

  10. Research Design • Epistemology • Theory • Methodology • Methods

  11. Knowledge Claims • Postpositivism • Constructivism • Participatory Knowledge Claims • Pragmatism

  12. Action Research • Parties working together – research “with” not “on” participants • Iterative • Interventionist

  13. Next week’s assignment • Come up with a research question OF YOUR OWN • Write about how you would approach this question • Epistemologically • Philosophically and theoretically • Methodologically • With specific actions and methods • Ask yourself the important questions from all of your readings • Post your response on the wiki by Sunday at 5PM

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