Wednesday, 14 October 2015

OUIL601 - Follow up to the COP Lecture 13/10/15

Methodologies and Critical Analysis


  • 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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