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Andy Cramp
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1. The document discusses different types of data that could be used in writing a paper about developing an online learning module. 2. It identifies six sources of data: notes from development meetings, the process of module development, student engagement records, learning discussions, and student evaluations. 3. The document considers positioning the paper as "professional development" or "research" and debates the hierarchical relationship between the two. It questions treating knowledge as ideology-free.

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Writing up different types of data Dealing in/with validity...
What am I trying to do? ? write a paper about developing an online module ? Does this idea have any worth? ? Has it all been written up before?
Where is the data for this paper? 1. development of SEF position on online learning 2. underpinning online philosophy for the module ¨C pedagogies of learning online? 3. notes from development meetings recording important decisions taken 4. the process of development of the WOLF topic 5. engagement of students with activities ¨C records of learning discussions 6. Student evaluations
¡®Professional development¡¯ or ¡®research¡¯? ? often regarded as separate and hierarchical e.g. ¡®professional¡¯ journals and ¡®research¡¯ journals ? works well for governments/policy makers/managers not looking for the ¡®interference¡¯ of ¡®theory¡¯ ¨C removes the ¡®critical¡¯ dimension ? ¡®Knowledge isn¡¯t free from ideology¡¯ but it is convenient to pretend it is...
Criticality and scepticism ¡®Knowledge sanctioned by institutions can produce such an authoritative consensus about how to ¡®be¡¯ that it is difficult to imagine how to think, act or feel in any other way¡¯ McNaughton, G. Doing Foucault in Early Childhood Studies (p.32)
Justification (validity) for using the data I have 1. Clandinin and Connelly (2000) Narrative Inquiry/methodology Top level methodological approach ¨C best way to use the data I have access to 2. Alvesson and Skoldberg (2009) Reflexive methodology. My position/belief in the circular nature of relationships 3. Smith et al (2009) Interpretative phenomenological analysis. Linked to 1. above. Personal lived experiences ¨C mine; the students, via online discussions
Writing up... ? the positions justify/validate the data ? Keep your positions in sight while analysing the data
Weaving... ¡®During the first development meetings a key decision had to be taken about which learning platform to use. Colleagues brought with them passionate narratives revealing their pedagogic commitment to platforms. Their lived working experiences were clearly in reflexivity with their professional and personal identities. It was clear that the technical platform for online learning had become involved in an emotional attachment to pedagogic values¡¯
Narrative methodology ? According to Mischler (1995) the ¡®narrativisation of experience¡¯ allows the researcher to begin to identify the dynamic and constantly changing identities and positions that characterises any individual¡¯s ¡®being in the world¡¯. ? ¡®Narratives serve to create a sense of one¡¯s self and reflect social processes or institutions or representations of cultures¡¯. Mishler, E.G. (1995) ¡°Models of narrative analysis: A typology¡±, Journal of Narrative and Life History, 5(2): 87-123.
Reflexivity ? Reflexivity refers to circular relationships between cause and effect. A reflexive relationship is bidirectional with both the cause and the effect affecting one another. Reflexivity therefore comes to mean an act of self-reference where examination or action "bends back on", refers to, and affects the entity instigating the action or examination. (Wikipedia!) ? Christina Hughes at Warwick University
IPA ? Phenomenology: the approach to experience ¨C what is it like being a human in terms of what matters to us? ? Interpretive process based on every day experience ? Husserl; Heidegger; Merleau-Ponty; Sartre

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Writing up different forms of data

  • 1. Writing up different types of data Dealing in/with validity...
  • 2. What am I trying to do? ? write a paper about developing an online module ? Does this idea have any worth? ? Has it all been written up before?
  • 3. Where is the data for this paper? 1. development of SEF position on online learning 2. underpinning online philosophy for the module ¨C pedagogies of learning online? 3. notes from development meetings recording important decisions taken 4. the process of development of the WOLF topic 5. engagement of students with activities ¨C records of learning discussions 6. Student evaluations
  • 4. ¡®Professional development¡¯ or ¡®research¡¯? ? often regarded as separate and hierarchical e.g. ¡®professional¡¯ journals and ¡®research¡¯ journals ? works well for governments/policy makers/managers not looking for the ¡®interference¡¯ of ¡®theory¡¯ ¨C removes the ¡®critical¡¯ dimension ? ¡®Knowledge isn¡¯t free from ideology¡¯ but it is convenient to pretend it is...
  • 5. Criticality and scepticism ¡®Knowledge sanctioned by institutions can produce such an authoritative consensus about how to ¡®be¡¯ that it is difficult to imagine how to think, act or feel in any other way¡¯ McNaughton, G. Doing Foucault in Early Childhood Studies (p.32)
  • 6. Justification (validity) for using the data I have 1. Clandinin and Connelly (2000) Narrative Inquiry/methodology Top level methodological approach ¨C best way to use the data I have access to 2. Alvesson and Skoldberg (2009) Reflexive methodology. My position/belief in the circular nature of relationships 3. Smith et al (2009) Interpretative phenomenological analysis. Linked to 1. above. Personal lived experiences ¨C mine; the students, via online discussions
  • 7. Writing up... ? the positions justify/validate the data ? Keep your positions in sight while analysing the data
  • 8. Weaving... ¡®During the first development meetings a key decision had to be taken about which learning platform to use. Colleagues brought with them passionate narratives revealing their pedagogic commitment to platforms. Their lived working experiences were clearly in reflexivity with their professional and personal identities. It was clear that the technical platform for online learning had become involved in an emotional attachment to pedagogic values¡¯
  • 9. Narrative methodology ? According to Mischler (1995) the ¡®narrativisation of experience¡¯ allows the researcher to begin to identify the dynamic and constantly changing identities and positions that characterises any individual¡¯s ¡®being in the world¡¯. ? ¡®Narratives serve to create a sense of one¡¯s self and reflect social processes or institutions or representations of cultures¡¯. Mishler, E.G. (1995) ¡°Models of narrative analysis: A typology¡±, Journal of Narrative and Life History, 5(2): 87-123.
  • 10. Reflexivity ? Reflexivity refers to circular relationships between cause and effect. A reflexive relationship is bidirectional with both the cause and the effect affecting one another. Reflexivity therefore comes to mean an act of self-reference where examination or action "bends back on", refers to, and affects the entity instigating the action or examination. (Wikipedia!) ? Christina Hughes at Warwick University
  • 11. IPA ? Phenomenology: the approach to experience ¨C what is it like being a human in terms of what matters to us? ? Interpretive process based on every day experience ? Husserl; Heidegger; Merleau-Ponty; Sartre