scholarly journals Lawzone: Mapping unmet legal need

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Richard Owen
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Pedagogical Issues ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Research Skills

Mapping unmet legal need assists university law clinics plan activities to meet the needs of the communities they serve.  This article, by looking at a project where students started mapping unmet legal need in their locality, will consider the pedagogical issues associated with identifying unmet legal need and how it might enable university law clinics to be better embedded into their local communities by considering aspects of physical and human geography when considering injustice.  It will also look at exiting research methodologies in this area and how mapping unmet legal need can develop students’ empirical research skills.  The article also assesses the project’s aims to develop attributes such as entrepreneurship, as well utilising teaching practices such as visualisation to enable students to think spatially to perceive and understand social inequalities more clearly.  It will argue that involving students in mapping unmet legal need will help them make those services more accessible; devise holistic solutions to clients’ problems; and enable them to work more effectively with other disciplines to both their own and their clients’ benefit.

scholarly journals Aspectos metodológicos da pesquisa em Educação Matemática: rumos e perspectivasMethodological aspects of research in Mathematics Education: directions and perspectives

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 65-83
Author(s):  
Bernardete Angelina Gatti
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Mathematical Education ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Mathematic Education Research ◽  
School Learning ◽  
Mathematic Education ◽  
Methodological Aspects ◽  
Research In Mathematics Education

ResumoNeste artigo são apresentadas algumas das concepções que se observam, explicitamente ou subjacentemente, no relato de pesquisas na área da educação matemática, as quais orientam seu desenvolvimento, fins e resultados. As concepções destacadas se entrelaçam com várias formas e caminhos possíveis para levantar dados e analisar o que é obtido em investigações no que se refere às situações de ensino e de aprendizagem escolar, ou, a processos formativos de diferentes naturezas e níveis. Não há hierarquização entre elas, não são necessariamente mutuamente excludentes, e, cada uma traz contribuições a serem consideradas nos limites de suas perspectivas.Palavras-chave:  Educação matemática, Metodologias de pesquisa, Concepções de pesquisa, Formação do pesquisador. AbstractIn this article, is exposed an analytic view of conceptions that we can observe in reports of research in the field of mathematical education. They guide the purpose, proceedings and results of the investigation and they interweave the ways and research means of obtaining data. This analysis is done by observing reports of empirical research on school learning or about process of teachers’ education. There are no hierarchy between then and they are not mutually exclusive. Each one brings their contribution that can be considered in their perspectives and limits.Keywords: Mathematic education, Research methodologies, Research conceptions, Researchers’ education. ResumenEn este artículo se analizan concepciones observables, directamente o no, en relatos de investigaciones científicas en el campo de la educación matemática. Esas concepciones orientan los procedimientos investigativos, los análisis de los resultados y sus fines. Ellas están entrelazadas con los caminos de búsqueda de datos y conclusiones. Las investigaciones tratadas dicen respecto a situaciones de la enseñanza y del aprendizaje en la escuela o a procesos de formación de varios tipos, mayormente, la formación de docentes. No hay jerarquía entre ellas, no son mutuamente excluyentes, y cada una aporta su contribución específica.Palabras-clave: Educación matemática; metodologías de la investigación; concepciones de investigación; formación de investigadores. 

scholarly journals Researching cross-national policy mobilities in crime control

2019 ◽  
pp. 174889581986462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trevor Jones ◽  
Jarrett Blaustein ◽  
Tim Newburn
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Policy Transfer ◽  
Minor Importance ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Policy Mobilities ◽  
Cross National

The empirical study of ‘policy transfer’ and related topics remains a relatively rare enterprise in criminology. Comparative studies of crime control policy tend to focus on broader structural explanations on the one hand, or more specific socio-cultural analyses on the other. By contrast, scholars from other disciplinary traditions – including political science, public administration, comparative social policy and human geography – have developed a vibrant body of empirical research into the dynamics and impacts of cross-jurisdictional flows of policy ideas, programmes and practices. This research provides helpful methodological pointers to criminologists interested in carrying out such work within the field of crime control. This article argues that the relative lack of empirical research on cross-national crime policy movement arises from two main factors: first, a generalised sense that the topic is of rather minor importance and second, a lack of methodological clarity about how such research might proceed. Such methodological barriers have arguably been further strengthened by major critiques of the political science frameworks of ‘policy transfer’ that have been influential in the field. We view cross-national policy movement as an important subject for empirical criminological inquiry, and consider extant methodological approaches and potential future directions, drawing in particular on wider work within political science and human geography. There is significant potential for criminologists to learn from, and contribute to, the methodological approaches deployed by researchers from other disciplines and thus enhance knowledge about the concept of policy mobilities.

Tendencies and trajectories: The production of subjectivity in an event of drug consumption

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 951-967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ella Dilkes-Frayne ◽  
Cameron Duff
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Drug Research ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Drug Consumption ◽  
Recreational Drug ◽  
Recreational Drug Use

Posthumanist ontologies have been employed in theoretical and empirical research in human geography to explore the production of subjectivity in processes, events and relations. Similar approaches have been adopted in critical drug research to emphasise the production of subjectivity in events of drug consumption. Within each body of work questions remain regarding the durations and becomings of subjectivity. Responding to these questions, we introduce the notions of tendencies and trajectories as a way of theorising the emergent and enduring aspects of subjectivity. We ground this discussion in a select review of posthumanist geographies, geographies of habit and post-phenomenological approaches, along with vignettes drawn from an ethnographic study of young people’s recreational drug use conducted in Melbourne, Australia. We use these sources to indicate how the notions of tendencies and trajectories may help to account for the emergent and enduring aspects of processes of subjectivation in events of drug consumption.

scholarly journals Experiments in becoming: corporeality, attunement and doing research

2020 ◽  
pp. 147447402094955
Author(s):  
Alan Latham ◽  
Lauren B Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Research Site

Human geography has become deeply interested in a range of research methods that focus on researchers’ corporeal engagement with their research sites. This interest has opened up an exciting set of research horizons, energising the discipline in a whole range of ways. Welcoming this engagement, this paper presents a series of meditations on the process of using the researcher’s corporeal learning as a research tool. Exploring two research projects, as well as the work of the photographer Nikki S Lee, it examines how the process of becoming corporeally capable might productively be framed as sets of ongoing experiments. Framing such engagements as experiments is a useful heuristic through which to think rigorously about what such research can claim as knowledge. More controversially, the paper argues that the heuristic of the experiment helps us to attend to the varying durations of becoming in ways that much existing work has discounted. Developing corporeal capacities – gaining a skill, becoming capable of doing a particular activity – involves becoming attuned to a range of thresholds, the crossing of which open up novel and frequently unexpected perspectives. Attunement to these thresholds does not arise simply through the process of mixing in and participating in a research site. It requires careful attention to the parameters of transformation involved in being able to participate. The paper explores how such parameters might be decided upon and calibrated as part of an ongoing engagement with a research site or event. Our aim is not to artificially restrict or constrain how human geographers approach their research design. Rather it is to encourage human geographers to show more courage in their use of corporeal based research methodologies.

scholarly journals #ChildMaltreatment and Technology

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-51
Author(s):  
Scottye J. Cash
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Research Skills

Technology may seem like a friend one day, a foe another depending on how and why it is being used. In today’s world, we are inundated with social media, smart phones, tvs, and cars. Our ability to harness technology to make our lives a better place is a noble goal, however our ability to harness technology to enhance our research skills is absolutely necessary. The current paper explores the ways in which technology has been used and can be used to better understand child maltreatment and domestic violence. Overall, the message is clear, integrating technology-based research methods and practical approaches to helping vulnerable populations is one of this generations’ paradigm shifts. Technology coupled with sound research methodologies can help move us forward in our exploration and understanding of social problems and interventions.

Zafè Fatra (The Affair of Trash) and the Affair of Scholarly Engagement

2021 ◽  
pp. 110-130
Author(s):  
Rebecca Dirksen
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Political Uncertainty ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Musical Discourse ◽  
Concrete Action ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines the challenges and ethics of an applied ethnomusicologist working in Haiti. She scrutinizes whether the impact of ethnomusicologists and scholars, especially when dealing with nonmusical issues such as trash, can be anything more than superficial. Intimately tied to poverty, health insecurity, political uncertainty, and structural violence, trash is one of the most visible and hazardous challenges in Port-au- Prince today. Pedestrians are frequently forced to traverse piles of garbage on their daily routes, and many Haitian citizens speak of politik fatra, a “politics of trash,” that governs civic behavior to a surprising extent. Notably, the mounting trash problem has given rise to a distinct and growing musical discourse on garbage. This repertoire might be tied to mizik angaje—literally, “engaged music,” a genre-crossing expressive form featuring politically and socially engaged lyrics that has been central to the nation’s historical record from the colonial era to the present. Yet youth today are reframing this revered tradition of “throwing” pointed verbal criticisms through music. Namely, several groups of young musicians routinely use their songs to voice concerns about environmental degradation and inappropriate dumping practices, but these musicians’ engagement with trash does not end with their lyrics. Certain artists are physically trying to combat the problem and to empower their local communities toward concrete action. The chapter looks at what happens when Haitian youth use music to clean up Haiti’s streets, before reflecting more deeply on what happens when ethnomusicologists use research methodologies to encourage the process of community engagement.

Husserlian-Oriented Descriptive Phenomenological Research Methodology

2022 ◽  
pp. 63-81
Author(s):  
Chau H. P. Nguyen ◽  
Howard J. Curzer
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Phenomenological Research ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Raw Data ◽  
Phenomenological Philosophy ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Phenomenological Methodology

This chapter aims to extend the current body of knowledge about phenomenological research methodologies. By focusing exclusively on the Husserlian-oriented descriptive phenomenological methodology, (1) the authors will first provide a brief introduction to Husserl's phenomenology. (2) They will then give a thorough delineation of Giorgi's descriptive phenomenological psychological methodology, which is underpinned by Husserl's phenomenological philosophy. They will subsequently describe in detail methods of data gathering and the method of data analysis of this phenomenological methodology. (3) Finally, they will borrow raw data from published empirical research to demonstrate the application of this data analysis method.

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