Research-As-Praxis: A Mode of Inquiry into Caring in Nursing

2006 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda P. Finch
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Nursing Knowledge ◽  
Nursing Science ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Theory Application

The nursing as caring theory asserts that knowing emerges from within the nursing situation and that knowledge can be transformed for nursing purposes into nursing science, which evolves from nurturing persons living caring and growing in caring. The purpose of this paper is to describe research-as-praxis methodology, as it was applied to the nursing as caring theory in a recent study, as an effective way to simultaneously engage in research, practice, and theory application. Because caring is a central exemplar of nursing, it is appropriate to consider the usefulness of this research-as-praxis methodology to examine questions that emerge from within any nursing situation, and it is cogent to suggest that this research methodology would be applicable and appropriate for generating nursing knowledge using the broad expanse of nursing theoretical perspectives.

Ethnography

2020 ◽  
pp. 328-358
Author(s):  
Anthony Kwame Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
General Overview ◽  
Research Tradition ◽  
Field Note ◽  
Oriented Research

This chapter introduces ethnography as a distinct research and writing tradition. It opens with a discussion of ethnography’s current fashionability within transdisciplinary academic spaces and some of the associated challenges. The next section provides a historical overview of ethnography’s emergence as a professionalized research practice within the fields of anthropology and sociology. Focusing on ethnography as a research methodology, the chapter outlines several key attributes that distinguish it from other forms of participant observation–oriented research; provides a general overview of the central paradigms that ethnographers claim and/or move between; and spotlights three principal research methods that most ethnographers utilize—namely, participant observation, field-note writing, and ethnographic interviewing. The final section of the chapter introduces a research disposition called ethnographic comportment, defined as a politics of positionality that reflects both ethnographers’ awarenesses of and their accountabilities to the research tradition they participate in.

Scholarship Development Series Part I: Writing a Review of the Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 144-148
Author(s):  
Norma Cuellar
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
National Association ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Hispanic Health ◽  
Or Education ◽  
Nursing Science

As part of National Association of Hispanic Nurses’ Strategic Plan, our organization focuses on the development of scholarship in our members. Scholarship is what moves nursing science forward and includes not only research but also teaching/education and clinical practice. Part of scholarship is identifying what is in the literature or what is the “evidence” which is detrimental to identifying the best practices for our Latino communities. This article is part of a scholarship development series that will run in Hispanic Health Care International. The purpose of this first article is to provide a background on how to conduct a review of the literature. The objectives of the article are to (1) define what a review of the literature is, (2) discuss various types of review articles that can be used for research, practice, or education, (3) identify the process of synthesizing evidence, (4) present standardized formats that can be used in writing a review, and (5) provide steps to begin the process of writing a review.

Research Methodology and Nursing Science

1992 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 150-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keville Frederickson
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Nursing Science

scholarly journals Reflexions on the Plurality of Methods in Architecture

Dimensions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-62
Author(s):  
Oya Atalay Franck
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Unique Challenge ◽  
Broad Variety

Editorial Summary With »Reflexions on the Plurality of Research Methodology in Architecture«, Oya Atalay Franck explores the plurality of methods in architecture, unfolding the broad variety of working fields in the discipline. She highlights the specificity of the design tasks, resulting in a unique challenge for each task with correspondingly individual answers and results, thereby framing designing as an adaptive creational process that corresponds to the distinct demands of the project. Although the design process here is outlined as interactive and feedback-dependent, including the interwoven use of different media and working methods, this contribution questions whether the discipline of architecture can actually be investigated according to proven procedures of research practice. [Katharina Voigt]

scholarly journals Editorial

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ovamir Anjum
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Supreme Leader ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Methodological Reflection

Shirin Saeidi’s “A Passionate Pursuit of Justice: Towards an Ethics of IslamicFeminist Research Practice” is a well-researched and thought-provokingpiece on the question of how a scholar investigating lived practices (of Islam,in this case) may fruitfully deploy feminist theoretical perspectives;in particular, “how a feminist committed to breaking down hierarchiesbetween research participants and herself can carefully study ambiguousactivism.” By “ambiguous activism” the author seems to mean the practicesof groups or forms of life toward which the author feels morally ambivalent.Her essay is a judicious combination of literature review of feministtheorization, methodological reflection, and self-reflection in the contextof her object of study. Her object of study is Iran’s Hezbollah, a conservativecultural movement backed by the mullahs and in this respect, quite unlikeother Islamist movements in the Middle East; a movement, Saeidi notes,which may be regarded as both “oppressive, but also suppressed.” Whileenjoying powerful backing by the Supreme Leader (still the king-maker inIran) it struggles within civil society against secularization and individualisticreligiosity introduced by neoliberalism ...

Reclaiming Australia: Indigenous Hip-Hop group A.B. Original’s use of Twitter

2018 ◽  
Vol 169 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzi Hutchings ◽  
Dianne Rodger
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Indigenous Australian ◽  
Indigenous Knowledges ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Twitter Activity

This article explores how Indigenous-Australian Hip-Hop group A.B. Original use Twitter to promote their music and more broadly, as a conduit for political expression, protest and the celebration of Indigenous identities. We use Indigenous knowledges and Indigenous standpoint theories to extend on the current literature that examines the use of social media by Indigenous peoples. In decolonising research, these theoretical perspectives position the Indigenous participant at the centre of research practice where knowledge is created. Indigenous knowledges therefore become the paradigm through which social interaction is understood and described. Our thematic analysis of A.B. Original’s public Twitter activity from November 2016 to January 2017 demonstrates that the combination of Hip-Hop and social media are powerful forces utilised by young Indigenous people in Australia to discuss issues impacting their everyday lives and to make meaningful statements on contemporary Aboriginality and sovereignty.

Nursing Research in Taiwan

1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 263-281
Author(s):  
SHYANG-YUN P. KOONG SHIAO ◽  
YU-MEI YU CHAO
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Research ◽  
Nursing Knowledge ◽  
Nursing Science ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

Nursing research in Taiwan has evolved over the past 30 years. This review focused on refereed publications, research published in English, and specifically the 27 studies produced by doctorally prepared first authors. Most investigators used surveys and interviews. Designs were at the levels of description, association, and evaluation, not at the level of experiment. Problems are identified for this body of research. Further evolution of nursing science in Taiwan needs to incorporate the scientific and technologic resources of the world to develop nursing knowledge.

An Archive of Caring for Nursing: Using Foucauldian Archaeology for Knowledge Development

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 22-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Bourgeois,
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Knowledge Development ◽  
Nursing Knowledge ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Archaeological Analysis

Foucauldian archaeology offers nursing a useful research methodology to advance nursing knowledge. It allows the isolation and analysis of structures that are treated as discursive systems. Foucauldian archaeology is concerned with discourse where knowledge is understood as a matter of social, historical, and political conditions under which statements come to count as true or false. In this paper, the author discusses Foucauldian archaeology and the three tools (statement, discourse, discursive formations) that were used to undertake an archaeological analysis. The result was the identification of an archive of caring for nursing comprising three distinct wellbounded discourses of caring.

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