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Lecture notes Research Methods for Teacher Inquiry (X100)

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Research Methods for Teacher Inquiry (X100)

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This document has all the notes needed for Research Methods for Teacher Inquiry. It covers the definitions of Ontology and Epistemology. It explains what qualitative and quantitative is and how this can be conducted in research.

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Research Methods for Teacher Inquiry Notes
27.09.22 - Workshop
The Greeks
Presocratics
• Thales – Everything is made of water. World separate from divine
• Anaximander – First Natural Philosopher to write things down
• Empedocles – Earth / Fire / Air / Water – Love & Strife
• Pythagoras – Triangles / Mathematical proof
• Democritus – Everything is made of Atoms. Air under water. Experiment
Socrates
• Questions, Questions, Questions
• Socratic Method – Constantly asking questions so students break down a problem
into smaller parts, parts they can test hypothesis against
Plato
• Founded “The Academy”. Wrote Republic. Thinking about thinking. Training of how
to think. IDEALISM – Theory of nature based on perfect abstractions. Fit his
observations to his theory.
Aristotle
• Founded “The Lyceum” (Peripatetic). EMPIRICIST - Common sense. Made
observations and then came up with theories which fit the evidence.

“In a general sense, research means finding out… the types, or methods [that] have in
common the generation of knowledge at varying levels of detail, sophistication, and
generalizability. Research results in the creation of knowledge to solve a problem, answer a
question, and better describe or understand something. In all these instances, producing
new knowledge highlights the research process aimed at finding out.”
(Goodwin and Goodwin 1996 in Clough and Nutbrown 2012)

Epistemology
What you think is the nature of knowledge.
What do you understand knowledge to be? What is it like? What do you know?

,Concerns the nature of knowledge – how can what is known be assumed to exist?
1. What should be considered acceptable knowledge in a discipline?
2. Can the social world be studied according to the same principles as the natural sciences?
Positivism – sees it as possible to achieve direct knowledge of the world through direct
observation or measurement of the phenomenon being investigated.
Interpretivism – does not see direct knowledge as possible – it is the accounts and
observations of the world that provide indirect indications of phenomena and thus
knowledge is developed through a process of interpretation.
Ontology
How you see the world (your ontological assumptions) will inform how you do your research
– the ways you enquire and what you enquire about. Which then gives rise to you choice of
methods to use.

Epistemology and Ontology link. How you see knowledge will affect how you see the world.

28.09.22 – Lead Lecture
Voices in the park – Anthony Browne – goes a long way in representing different research
methods

, What is Educational Research?
“The starting point for this is to think about the word ‘research’. The picture that often
comes into our minds when we think about research is that of scientists in white coats
experimenting in a laboratory. We may also think about doing research, however, by
exploring the Internet or through reading books and browsing journals in the library. Each
of these images contains similar characteristics in that research is something scholarly that
involves some form of investigation in order to find something out within a particular
discipline such as education.” (Newby 2014, in Palaiolologou, Needham and Male 2016)
Practical Presentation – 100%
Reference List submission – Friday 2nd December 12pm
Presentation Dates – 5th and 9th December
Return Feedback – 8th February 12pm
- Knowledge of your chosen methodology
- Identifying and evaluating benefits of it
- I will be given the problem – randomly chosen
- Explain your initial understanding of the research problem
- Demonstrate your understanding of at least two of the research methods considered
during this module
- Identify and evaluate the benefits and tensions of different methodologies in
relation to the allocated research problem
- Justify your recommendations for particular methodology summarising your
approach to this research problem
- Should last 10 minutes
- Face to face, marking tutor and 4 others
- Presentations may take whatever structure you choose

04.10.22 – Workshop
Positive Paradigm
This is the philosophical framework that guides how scientific research is undertaken where
facts are distinguished from values so that knowledge is derived from positive information
that is capable of mathematical proof.
Hypothesis
Tentative explanations, statements or answers about a research issue that need to be
tested, usually against evidence, in order to be verified or proved.
(Palaiologou, Needham, and Male 2016)
What is the Theory of Mind (ToM)?

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