Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Themes from your blog: Jennette, Haynam, Kieran

8. Infinite number of instructional theories
  • ·       in reading but, yes, many many more
  • ·       It depends which one resonates with you

o   Jenette; development psychology – because of years of work with children
o   Kieran & Haynam; Merril’s syntheses useful (ISW experience)
  • ·       Cognitive symbolic theory also useful: “all learning is analogy”
  • ·       It depends on age; up to a point (Piaget)


3. “full collaboration”
  • ·       Subject should be completely honest
  • ·       Researchers could withhold information “in the service of research” but they need to explain this in their methodology
  • ·       Researcher needs strong ethical sense; and the backing of ethics committee

1. “outsider v insider”
  • ·       We wondered about this in the context of indigenous research

o   An insider perspective might be preferable; avoids marginalization
o   Outsiders perspective (tabula rasa?), “newness” might be useful
  • ·       A collaboration between researchers – one insider, one outsider – could be useful
  • ·       “full collaboration” could be easier as an insider
  • ·       As a foreigner (outsider) in China, researching Tibet could be problematic


5. Whose voice is heard in research?
  • ·       Researcher / co-researcher(s)
  • ·       Funding source
  • ·       Participants
  • ·       Supervisors
  • ·       Research assistant(s)
  • ·       Translators


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