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Plan for Today

Plan for Today. Tool Orientation Administrata Readings Cheque Discussions Epistemology, Methodology & Methods Individual Team Consultations. Tool Orientation. Administrata. Readings Cheque Discussions

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Plan for Today

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  1. Plan for Today • Tool Orientation • Administrata • Readings Cheque • Discussions • Epistemology, Methodology & Methods • Individual Team Consultations

  2. Tool Orientation

  3. Administrata • Readings Cheque • Discussions • https://wiki.sfu.ca/summer08/educ894d100/index.php/Example_Discussion_of_Reading_Questions

  4. Example Discussion of Reading Questions 1. What are the tradeoffs in working in the different traditions? • One of the downsides of working in the objectivist / positivist / quantitative tradition (the one I'm more familiar with!) is that it limits the types of things you can look at to just what can be controlled and measured. There's lots of things, both in the social sciences and the "hard" sciences, that simply can't be examined quantitatively because they resist control or have too many interacting variables. XXX 15:58, 10 May 2008 (PDT) • One weakness of contructivist/qualitative tradition, in my perspective, is the analysis of the qualitative research data is more easily influenced by the researchers' personal bias and epistemological beliefs. Another problem is that data collected in the qualitative research is difficult to be analyzed and quantitatively predicted. It might also be possible the research outcomes are not generalized enough to be applied to a larger group of population than the groups in the research. YYY 16:18, 11 May 2008 (PDT)

  5. Epistemology, Methodology & Methods

  6. Epistemology Personified Objectivism Constructionism Subjectivism Meaning comes from our interactions with the world Meaning exists in the world We impose meaning on the world The Miner The Traveler The Activist Image Sources: http://www.synthstuff.com/mt/archives/bertrand-miner.jpg ; http://www.hmoon.com/garments/cloaks/traveler1-detail.jpg; http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42854000/jpg/_42854125_activist_afp416.jpg

  7. Contrasting the Approaches

  8. Tradition Assumptions & Implications

  9. Tradition Tradeoffs

  10. How Epistemology Drives the Research Process Epistemology Topic / Problem Research Approach Research Questions Methodology Data Collection Data Analysis Knowledge Claims using the logic of answer

  11. Examples of Approaches in Each Epistemology Constructionism • Phenomenology • Hermenuetics • Ethnography • Grounded Theory • Case Study Objectivism • Postivism • Post-positivism • Experiment • Correlational Studies • Survey Research Subjectivism • Post-modernist • Structuralist • Post-structuralist • Critical Inquiry

  12. Constructionist Ethnography

  13. Objectivist Ethnography

  14. Objectivist Ethnography

  15. Of Course It’s Not Really that Simple… Questionnaires Experiment Objectivism Interviews Survey Research Observation Ethnography Documents Constructionism Case Study Theme Analysis Phenomenology Descriptive Statistics Feminist Research Subjectivism Inferential Statistics Critical Inquiry Thick Description

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