Part I.qxd 10/18/2006 7:42 PM Page 36 5 FEMINIST METHODOLOGIES AND EPISTEMOLOGY ANDREA DOUCET Carleton University, Canada NATASHA S. MAUTHNER University of Aberdeen, Scotland O ver the past 10 years of teaching courses on research methods and feminist approaches to methodologies and epistemologies, a recurring question from our students concerns the distinctiveness of feminist approaches to methods, methodologies, and epistemologies. This key question is posed in different
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Thinking, Reading and Writing Critically In order to get the highest possible grades in a subject assessed in writing you need to be able to demonstrate an ability to think critically about the sources of information (text-books, academic papers, academic websites and the like) that you use in the construction your answer. You must, in other words, do more than simply take information from other sources and use it construct an answer. It is not enough to select some apposite quotations and demonstrate
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MEMORY-WORK: AN INTRODUCTION Jennie Small University of Technology, Sydney Research methodology, from the perspective of Critical social science, is considered as: inherently political, as inescapably tied to issues of power and legitimacy. It is assumed that methods are permeated with assumptions about what the social world is, who the social scientist is, and what the nature of the relation between them is (Lather, 1991, p.12). Critical social science moves away from description
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Thinking, Reading and Writing Critically In order to get the highest possible grades in a subject assessed in writing you need to be able to demonstrate an ability to think critically about the sources of information (text-books, academic papers, academic websites and the like) that you use in the construction your answer. You must, in other words, do more than simply take information from other sources and use it construct an answer. It is not enough to select some apposite quotations and demonstrate
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Organization http://org.sagepub.com/ Ways of constructing research questions: gap-spotting or problematization? Jörgen Sandberg and Mats Alvesson Organization 2011 18: 23 originally published online 15 July 2010 DOI: 10.1177/1350508410372151 The online version of this article can be found at: http://org.sagepub.com/content/18/1/23 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Organization can be found at: Email Alerts: http://org.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts
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A GOOD RESEARCH TOPIC? GIVE 5 EXAMPLES OF A GOOD RESEARCH TOPIC AND JUSTIFY WHY YOU CHOOSE THEM, I.E. PROBLEM ISSUES IN EACH TOPIC AND WHY THEY MUST BE RESEARCHED UPON. (NOT LESS THAN 2000 WORDS). WHAT IS RESEARCH? Research has been defined by different people in different ways. At any point in time, depending on what an individual is doing in relation to a particular topic or subject area of study, there is the tendency that one may deem that activity as a form of research. Research therefore
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students in Poland and United Kingdom Module name: Research Methods Word count: 4978 January 2014 1. Abstract The purpose of this report is to determine the differences between travelling preferences among British and Polish postgraduate students. Moreover, the report aims to establish the patterns in which a cultural background influence travelling and to detect similarities between British and Polish attitudes. Therefore, the research is a comparative, cross-cultural study. In order to
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of any quantitative research study is the data that are collected. The conclusions drawn from the data collection ultimately lead the researcher(s) to either accept or reject their research hypothesis. As cited earlier, the hypothesis of this study is that HAI’s occur less frequently in favorable work environments than they do in poor work environments (Kelly et al., 2013). This portion of the article critique addresses the data, findings, and overall summary of the research study. Data Analysis
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using the primary research literature, the prospect sometimes seems overwhelming. Finding pertinent journal articles often seems to involve a maze of abstracting journals, indifferent librarians, missing volumes, CD-ROMs from the netherworld, and bound periodicals that refuse to flatten themselves for photocopiers (no matter how hard you press on them CPR-style). Even after an article has been located or provided, there is the problem of reading it. The worst way to assimilate a research paper is to read
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Dictionary of Education: Language of Teaching and Learning Name Institution Article Notes and Critique No. 1 Ali, M.S. (2007). Dictionary of education: Language of teaching and learning. Bloomington, IN: Author House. Description of problem addressed in study: Learning in preschool depends highly on the teachers’ cues. Different cues of different teachers have different impact on word leaning on pupils in preschool. For a better understanding and proper
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