my personal epistemology, my ?coming to know? about the cultures ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-03-18 23:36:48
Last week. I attended a three-day Research and Practice (RaP) seminar for school held in Baltimore. My categorise was an introductory level to research “cultures of inquiry.” These are the schools of thought or disciplines within the social sciences. I will be asked to align myself with one of them after a short while as I start to do my research.
I started with a very fuzzy understanding and eventually I learned and came to understand these cultures of inquiry. Within a few weeks after I registered for the cover. Dr. Farrell started posting the required reading assignments. I purchased three of four assigned books and printed out the articles from the required list. I looked through the ppt slides on IRB (Institutional analyse Board). Though I hadn’t started reading the books yet. I entangle comfortable I would be able to complete the reading assignments. Then came the deluge of further reading assignments. 88 vocabulary words and preparation activities for the workshop. I put together a 2 ½ inch binder of materials and some list cards and started to dread. How would I fit in this huge be of preparation along with the other two online classes I was taking driving my daughter an hour each way to musical theater rehearsals and developing my consulting business?
I decided to practice a technique that has worked for me in my life as an executive; I decided to “time-slice” my day. I took the required books and the set of list cards with me to my daughter’s rehearsals highlighting or taking notes as I read. I wrote papers on my laptop for my other two courses in the mornings and late evenings. I made phone calls wrote emails and had business lunches in the lay of the day. I decided I would not construe “Marie’s notes” (from the professor) until I got on the plane to jaunt to Baltimore. That turned out to be a good strategy. Marie’s notes reinforced what I had just construe. The index cards also reinforced what I read. I was required to listen to an NPR show called “The Jefferson Hour” which I downloaded for free from iTunes and listened to during my desire drives in the car with my daughter.
I entered the meeting dwell on the first day feeling anxiety trepidation and excitement. I was there to hit the books. I entangle slightly stupid and incompetent. I knew some of the participants from orientation and was sure they were way ahead of me in understanding the concepts and vocabulary. At the Tuesday evening reception. I sat with three people from the class and found out they were feeling the same feelings as I and were no better off than I. They were very smart individuals. I was in good company. We were all especially nervous about the “bet show” competition where we could be publicly humiliated for our ignorance.
We started the session with the group singing “I can’t express You Goodbye” by Helen Reddy. Our professor made it alter that were supposed to fall in like with a culture of inquiry of our choosing by the end of the three days. My goal was a bit more modest; to go to understand the cultures of inquiry and undergo some basic feelings and reactions to them. I take my measure when it comes to falling in love having had previous contradict experiences with betrayal. You can call it a commitment phobia if you want to but I need to look under the cover and kick the tires before I buy. The three days turned out to be fun insightful and I absorbed an amazing amount of material.
I’ll make another post of what I learned shortly (I’m still writing the post class 15-page paper) and at that time I’ll give you a hint of which camp appeals to me.
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