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Liz Thackray

OER IPR Support - 2 views

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intellectual property copyright creative commons

shared by Liz Thackray on 14 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Liz Thackray on 14 Feb 12
     
    Useful information and diagnostic tools for issues around copyright and intellectual property rights. All the more important now most theses are digitised!
Ian Robson

Meanings, purposes, and structural resources in social interaction. - 0 views

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interaction weinstein

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  • Ian Robson on 06 Apr 11
     
    Attempts to combine the strengths of 3 orientations (symbolic interaction, exchange theory, and structural functionalism) in accounting for social interaction to generate a framework for the analysis of interaction. The paper draws heavily on the concept of structurally patterned resources both for constructing meanings and facilitating exchange. These processes provide the concrete rooting of structure itself. (17 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)
E Jackson

Positivism & Post-Positivism - 1 views

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shared by E Jackson on 23 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Positivism & Post-Positivism
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      E Jackson on 23 Dec 10
       
      This has been a useful short article for me - research philosophy is something that I "struggle" to get to grips with. Decided to spend Xmas trying(!) to understand it all...
  • The purpose of science is simply to stick to what we can observe and measure. Knowledge of anything beyond that, a positivist would hold, is impossible.
  • We use deductive reasoning to postulate theories that we can test.
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  • The positivist believed in empiricism -- the idea that observation and measurement was the core of the scientific endeavor.
  • post-positivism is a wholesale rejection of the central tenets of positivism
  • One of the most common forms of post-positivism is a philosophy called critical realism.
  • Positivists were also realists. The difference is that the post-positivist critical realist recognizes that all observation is fallible and has error and that all theory is revisable.
  • the critical realist is critical of our ability to know reality with certainty
  • Because all measurement is fallible, the post-positivist emphasizes the importance of multiple measures and observations, each of which may possess different types of error, and the need to use triangulation across these multiple errorful sources to try to get a better bead on what's happening in reality.
  • The post-positivist also believes that all observations are theory-laden and that scientists (and everyone else, for that matter) are inherently biased by their cultural experiences, world views, and so on.
  • post-positivism rejects the relativist idea of the incommensurability of different perspectives, the idea that we can never understand each other because we come from different experiences and cultures.
  • Most post-positivists are constructivists who believe that we each construct our view of the world based on our perceptions of it. Because perception and observation is fallible, our constructions must be imperfect.
  • Post-positivists reject the idea that any individual can see the world perfectly as it really is. We are all biased and all of our observations are affected (theory-laden). Our best hope for achieving objectivity is to triangulate across multiple fallible perspectives!
Jane Davis

The Literature Review and Grounded Theory - 1 views

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grounded theory theses PhD lit review

shared by Jane Davis on 21 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Jane Davis on 21 Dec 10
     
    Useful reassurance that doing the lit review after the research is appropriate in GT methods
Liz Thackray

10 reasons Ph.D. students fail - 0 views

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phd why students fail

shared by Liz Thackray on 22 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Liz Thackray on 22 Dec 10
     
    I found some of these points quite challenging, but also made me think about what I am actually doing and what I need to do. There is another article somewhere "A PhD is not a nobel prize" also worth reading to remind of scope of graduate research.
Michelle A. Hoyle

Why Can't I Finish? :: Tips :: The 99 Percent - 1 views

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motivation persistence how-to timemanagement

shared by Michelle A. Hoyle on 10 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Michelle A. Hoyle on 10 Aug 11
     
    "As a time management life coach, I've found that many of my clients have a dread of finishing that they keep hidden away-hoping that no one will ever notice that they get a lot of little things done while never quite completing the really important stuff. Whether it's due to a rabid perfectionism, an aversion to criticism, or just an inability to maintain enthusiasm for the long haul, we all have challenges and fears we must overcome to produce work that matters. But pretending they don't exist won't get us anywhere. Here's a guide to diagnosing and treating what I've found to be four of the most common barriers to completion:"
  • Michelle A. Hoyle on 10 Aug 11
     
    Ph.D. students are particularly prone to some of these behaviours, I think, so perhaps this will help someone.
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