The research journey : introduction to inquiry / Sharon F. Rallis, Gretchen B. Rossman
- Author
- Rallis, Sharon F.
- Published
- New York, NY : The Guilford Press, 2012.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
- Additional Creators
- Rossman, Gretchen B.
Access Online
- Contents
- Greetings to Beginning Inquirers -- 1. Inquiry as Learning: Beginning the Journey -- Critical Questions to Guide Your Reading -- Dialogue 1 What Is Inquiry? -- Introduction -- What Is Inquiry? -- The Learner as Knowledge Generator -- Drawing on Values and Passion -- Your Journey into Systematic Inquiry -- Learning Activity 1.1 "Nanook of the North" -- Learning Activity 1.2 Problematizing "Truth" -- For Further Reading -- 2. Ways of Knowing: Finding a Compass -- Critical Questions to Guide Your Reading -- Dialogue 2 What Do We Know? How Do We Know It? -- Ways of Knowing -- Fundamental Assumptions -- Ontological Assumptions -- Epistemological Assumptions -- Methodological Assumptions -- Assumptions about the Social World -- Mapping Perspectives -- The Objectivist-Interpretivist Continuum -- The Sociology of Regulation-Sociology of Radical Change Continuum -- Back to Ontology and Epistemology -- Learning Activity 2.1 The Magic Eye®, Learning Activity 2.2 Alternative Maps -- Learning Activity 2.3 Strings -- For Further Reading -- 3. The Cycle of Inquiry: More Than One Way to Get There -- Critical Questions to Guide Your Reading -- Dialogue 3 Conducting Inquiry: How Do I Do It? -- Inquiry in Action/Inquiry as Practice -- The Systematic Inquiry Cycle -- Validity, Credibility, and Trustworthiness -- Learning Activity 3.1 Critical Inquiry Triads -- Learning Activity 3.2 "Walk-Throughs" to Find a Problem, Question, or Surprise -- For Further Reading -- 4. Being an Ethical Inquirer: Staying Alert on the Road -- Critical Questions to Guide Your Reading -- Dialogue 4 What Ethical Considerations Might Affect My Project? -- Ethics in Inquiry -- The Inquirer as a Moral Practitioner -- Standards for Practice and Procedural Matters -- Ethics, Trustworthiness, and Rigor -- Ethical Theories -- Ethics and Reflexivity -- Learning Activity 4.1 "The Moral Fix": A Debate., Learning Activity 4.2 What Would You Do? -- For Further Reading -- 5. Constructing Conceptual Frameworks: Building the Route -- Critical Questions to Guide Your Reading -- Dialogue 5 Grappling with a Conceptual Framework -- What Is a Conceptual Framework? -- Aysen's Conceptualizing Process -- Building an Argument -- Entering the Conversation: Your Community of Practice -- Entering the Conversation: Your Engagement -- Entering the Conversation: The Communities of Discourse -- Ways of Organizing -- Learning Activity 5.1 One Study, Four Representations -- Learning Activity 5.2 Developing a Position -- Learning Activity 5.3 Complicating Your Position -- Learning Activity 5.4 Concept Mapping -- For Further Reading -- 6. Designing the Inquiry Project: Finding "True North" -- Critical Questions to Guide Your Reading -- Dialogue 6 Considering Design Options -- Moving from the Conceptual Framework into Design -- Determining Purpose., Stipulating Research Questions -- Considering Various Designs -- Observation Designs -- In-Depth Interview Designs -- Document Analysis Designs -- Case Study Designs -- Survey Designs -- Correlation Designs -- Comparative Designs -- Action Research Designs -- A Note on Randomization -- Quasi-Experimental Designs -- Randomized Controlled Trials -- Samira's Research Questions and Possible Designs -- A Short Course on Research Methods -- Questionnaires -- Attitudinal/Behavioral Measures -- Achievement/Performance Measures -- Document and Artifact Analyses -- Interviews -- Observation -- Photos and Videos -- Planning for Analysis and Interpretation -- The Research Proposal: Bringing It All Together -- An Example of Connecting the What and the How -- Learning Activity 6.1 What's the Purpose Here? -- Learning Activity 6.2 Scripting My Study -- Learning Activity 6.3 Will My Study Be Do-able? -- For Further Reading., 7. Things to Consider in Writing: Staying in the Right Lane -- Critical Questions to Guide Your Reading -- Dialogue 7 Being Clear to Others -- Writing Introductions -- Questions to Address -- Common Elements -- How Not to Start -- Good Ways to Start -- More Tips and Considerations -- The Nasty Problem of Plagiarism -- A Cultural Critique -- Using the Work of Other Authors -- Using Proper Citation Format -- Learning Activities 7.1 Freeing Up Your Writing -- Learning Activity 7.2 Analyzing Writing -- For Further Reading -- 8. Knowledge Use: Arriving at Your Destination -- Critical Questions to Guide Your Reading -- Dialogue 8 How Can the Results of Our Inquiry Be Used for Improvement? -- Using What You Have Learned -- Instrumental Use -- Enlightenment Use -- Symbolic and Political Use -- Emancipatory Use -- Who Cares?: Potential Audiences -- Academia and Scholars -- Policymakers -- Practitioners -- Communicating for Use -- Textual-Narrative Representations., and Visual-Expressive Representations -- Dialogical Representations -- Passions and Closing the Loop -- Learning Activity 8.1 Connecting with Other Audiences -- For Further Reading.
- Summary
- "This book is a product of our several decades of teaching about research, conducting research ourselves, advising graduate students who conducted research - and of our reflections on the teaching and on the conduct of research. The book is structured to follow a teaching sequence; in fact, it maps neatly onto our syllabus for the course. Each chapter begins with a series of critical questions that we hope will guide reading and prompt further questions for discussion. These questions are followed by a dialogue among five graduate students whose journeys into inquiry are just beginning. Their challenges and joys are embedded in these dialogues as well as throughout the chapters. We also draw on other examples from our students over the years in several places. The chapters end with learning activities that we have used over the years and refined, based on student feedback and our own critical reflections on how well they worked"--
- Subject(s)
- Dissertations, Academic
- Research—Methodology—Study and teaching (Graduate)
- Thèses et écrits académiques
- Recherche—Méthodologie—Étude et enseignement (2e et 3e cycles)
- Doctoral dissertations
- Dissertations
- Theses
- Masters theses
- EDUCATION—Research
- PSYCHOLOGY—Research & Methodology
- SOCIAL SCIENCE—Methodology
- MEDICAL—Nursing—Research & Theory
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES—Authorship
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781462505159 (electronic bk.)
1462505155 (electronic bk.)
1280163577
9781280163579
9781462505128
1462505120
9781462505142
1462505147
9786613541857
6613541850 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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