201: Week Three

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201 Week Three

• Approaching Research

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Agenda

• Follow-up from last week
• web site critique
• time logs
• Research Approaches
• Reading
• Next weeks assignment

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Spending your time wisely this weeks hint
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Meetings (too many?)
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Keeping yourself organized
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Scientific Research

• Scholarship and research discussion online
• Greenwoood and Levins 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

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Approaching Research

• Tomorrows Professor In general, doing research
  as a grad student and post-doc
• Pasteurs Quadrant understanding notions of
  basic and applied science
• Research Design epistemology,
  theory/philosophy, methodology, methods
• Action Research focus on iterative,
  collaborative, situated research

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Tomorrows 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

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Pasteurs Quadrant
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Research Design

• Epistemology
• Theory
• Methodology
• Methods

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Knowledge Claims

• Postpositivism
• Constructivism
• Participatory Knowledge Claims
• Pragmatism

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Action Research

• Parties working together research with not
  on participants
• Iterative
• Interventionist

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Next weeks 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