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

• 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”

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

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

Pasteur’s Quadrant

Research Design

• Epistemology

• Theory

• Methodology

• Methods

Knowledge Claims

• Postpositivism

• Constructivism

• Participatory Knowledge Claims

• Pragmatism

Action Research

• Parties working together – research “with” not “on” participants

• Iterative

• Interventionist

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