- Logic, reasoning and critical judgement
What is a methodology?
- Best plane of action
- a logical, systematic way of organising a research project.
- Critically reflect on various research methods.
PALGRAVE STUDY SKILLS
- What kind of research methods should you employ to best answer your questions?
- What have you done to reduce problems with your research methods?
Your methodology may include:
- Literature review - Find the key literature in your research topic.
- A particular theoretical approach.
- Questionnaires - Why are you using each method?
- Interviews
- Sketchbooks.
Are children disengaging from nature?
What theoretical lense will you use? - What theories? Feminism etc.
Outline your methodology at the start of your dissertation (introduction) - How I am approaching my investigations.
(Go to Fairburn and other wildlife places, get research from there and speak to people)
What limitations might I face? (People not replying to my emails)
State why you aren't looking at something.
Who has already written about wildlife conservation and education.
Critical Analysis
- Try to consider different points of view.
- Are your sources biased?
- What is the writers agenda?
- Self reflection - Am I biased? (Yes, very much so)
- Context is everything.
- When was your research made?
Marxist
Neoliberal
Physcological
Sociological
Post Modernist
Technological
Fundamentalist
Positivist
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