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nAssignment for next week:
1. Read Creswell chapter 9: Writing the Narrative Report
n2. Choose something from today’s class (Nov. 8) and write a narrative on it drawing from one of the research “traditions” in Creswell. Post it as a comment to this blog entry.
3. Be prepared for group project updates/presentations.
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I feel that Alan Wicker's Ghana interviews are definately useful in revealing the various situations facing individuals who live and work in that region of the world. Qualitative studies seem to be sometimes limiting in the types of questions that are asked, and therefore limiting in scope. This kind of limitation is desired for some studies, but it seems useful in the interview process that the individuals have some freedom to express thoughts that might be somewhat ouside of the normal boundaries of a qualitative study. Just as with the interviews that we will be conducting as a part of our class project, I feel that the Ghana interviews presented a unique portrait of each individual, and offered insight that was both qualitative in nature and also unique to the individual. This was a very interesting, and thought-prevoking website.
Posted by TNDY 4010 Inductive Inquiry / IS366a Qualitative Methods - Sam Andress
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The Working in Ghana” project by professor Allan Wicker, his project has collected about 100 narratives from Ghanaian workers who tell about their work, feelings, and effect to their personal and family life. His research by individual interview in Ghana was not easy. He had no telephone or computer, and it was difficult to make contacts interviewer as well as the difference in language. In his data collection, he used biographical methodology by narrative of single individuals. His report approaches the five-tradition study: Biography, Phenomenology, Grounded theory, Ethnography and Case study. He focused on the life of an individual by data collection with primary interviews and documents and narrative form detailed to describe the individual’s life. In Phenomenology, he had over 100 people interview for the data collection and analyzed the general description of the experience. In Grounded theory, he focused on Ghana’s everyday life and experience. In Ethnography, he focused on cultural social facets and interpreted their language in data analysis. In case study, he used their personal experiences in the narrative. In his list of work narratives “Prison Officer,” Mrs. Adome and her husband are both prison officers and athletes. When he interviewed, he found that their stories related not only about themselves and the jobs they do, but also tell about other features such as representation of their society, cultural traditions and values. Also, Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s nine main elements (enjoyment) are shown by his interviews. Mrs. Adome and her husband work 28 days a month, and they were satisfied and proud of their Job. As both athletes and prison officers, they are still running for the national and international sporting competition
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1. Read Creswell chapter 7-8
2. Visit Allen Wicker's Ghana web site. Read "About the Project" as well as 3 different narratives at
http://web.cgu.edu/faculty/wickera/working.htm
3. Respond to the following statement and question by posting your answer as a comment to this blog entry:
- One purpose behind documenting these stories is to afford readers a deeper sense of understanding of Ghanian work and workers than woudl be achievalbe by a quantified representative survey. Do these narratives accomplish this purpose? Explain your answer.
4. Prepare for group status updates (update group wiki and give a short presentation).
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The purpose of this case study is to discover the knowledge creation processes for CGU academia. At this state in the research, the knowledge creation process will be generally defined as how faculty in different fields of studies reached their research insights.
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The purpose of this case study is to discover the knowledge creation processes for CGU academia. At this state in the research, the knowledge creation process will be generally defined as how faculty in different fields of studies reached their research insights.
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The purpose of this phenomenological study is to undertand how inductive and creative processes shape scholarly activities at CGU. At this stage of the research, inductive and creative processes will be defined as the left side of Czikszentmihalyi' diagram (the observation -> generalization -> theory building loop) -- the inductive knowledge process discussed in Gladwell's Blink and Czikszentmihalyi's Creativity.
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The purpose of this case study is to explain the creative process of professors/ researchers at CGU as it is impacted by the context of CGU. At this stage in the research, the creative process will be generally defined as …no se…
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The purpose of this case study is to discover the knowledge creation processes for CGU academia. At this state in the research, the knowledge creation process will be generally defined as how faculty in different fields of studies reached their research insights.
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