The Research Process

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Logical Analysis ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Critical Position ◽  
Systematic Process ◽  
Strategic Role

This chapter considers the research processes and strategies that are critical when conducting an inquiry. While the subsequent chapters shall help in the understanding of the philosophical standpoints in research, this chapter discusses strategies and decisions the researcher may take to achieve a good enough inquiry. The discussion will focus on providing useful descriptions of what the research process entails and further explore approaches to the review of literature, the strategic role of the researcher, the ethical and analytic strategies and triangulation strategies for achieving valid findings in a study. The chapter begins by locating the research's critical position in epistemology and the rationale for engaging in a systematic process, which includes data collection and logical analysis of findings. Some examples and samples have been provided to help especially those who are new to research.

scholarly journals Towards Eco-Friendly Responsibilities

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Miftachul Huda ◽  
Islah Gusmian ◽  
Mufrad Teguh Mulyo
Keyword(s):  
Educational Institution ◽  
Learning Culture ◽  
Sustainable Communities ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Social Responsibilities ◽  
Framework Model ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Innovative Learning ◽  
Healthy Community

Attempts to fulfil the contemporary needs mainly on strengthening eco-friendly responsibilities are in line with the strategic role of expanding committed awareness of sustaining the healthy community. This initiative should bring along with enhancing the duties on how educational institution can manage its role in the balance between human being and natural resources. As such, the innovative learning culture in enabling the school approach in empowering sustainability should be taken into consideration in strengthening multi-task for sustainable communities. This paper aims to examine the eco-friendly responsibilities to enhance the healthy community through cross reviewing Indonesian field school model. With the critical review of literature from referred journals, books, and conferences, the theoretical framework model with a guideline will be offered to assist in the innovative learning culture to strengthen its play in bringing environmental and social responsibilities in line with sustainability goal achievement program.

scholarly journals Research development in doctoral education: role of languages and cultures

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana Pinto
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Doctoral Education ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Research Development ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Policy And Practice

Portuguese universities have been receiving an increasing number of students from Portuguese-Speaking Countries at the level of PhD studies, namely from Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde and Mozambique. As acknowledged by research, undertaking a PhD overseas entails several challenges and one of the deepest concerns the implications of languages and cultures in several doctoral activities, since they act as significant research reconfiguration agents. Against this background, this paper reports on a study that aimed at understanding the role of languages and cultures in doctoral research development. For this matter, and within a qualitative approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted with doctoral students from Portuguese-Speaking Countries attending a Portuguese university. Results from thematic analysis reveal that students’ linguistic and cultural backgrounds influence several stages of the research process: theme and research objetives definition, theorisation of the research problem and concept mobilisation, construction of data collection instruments and data collection and thesis writing. Implications of findings for institutional policy and practice concerning doctoral education and research are put forward.

scholarly journals Autonomous Learning Writing Promoted by the Use of Facebook Group

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Khairil Razali
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Autonomous Learning ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
The Media

In aglobalized world, internet facilities and social media are becoming increasingly important and take a strategic role in most of human activities. One of them is in the education and learning sector. This qualitative research explored the role of a Facebook group to increase students' autonomy in learning writing. The experiment was conducted with qualitative methodology to 6 students as a sample. The process of data collection is done through the media Facebook group which was developed during the data collection through observation and interviews. The research lasted for 30(thirty) days in which researchers became the administrator and facilitator. From the process of collecting and analyzing the data assumed that Facebook group influenced the autonomy and promote independent of students learning in writing. Keywords: Facebook group ; Students autonomy ; Learning writing

scholarly journals Makna Pemeringkatan dan Peningkatan Kinerja Perguruan Tinggi Perspektif Intellectual Capital

2019 ◽  
pp. 142
Author(s):  
Sigit Hermawan ◽  
Sriyono Sriyono ◽  
Wiwit Hariyanto ◽  
Niko Fediyanto
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Structural Capital ◽  
Ranking Performance ◽  
Collection Data ◽  
Image Building ◽  
Depth Interviews

The purpose of this research is to analyze the meaning of ratings and formulate efforts to improve the performance and competitiveness of universities in the intellectual capital perspective. The interpretive qualitative research type was used. Data collection was carried out using in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, observations, and documentation. Data analysis was carried out throughout the four-stage research process involving data collection, data reduction, data display, and conclusion. The results of the study state that the meaning of ratings is related to performance, media promotion, and related to reputation or image building. Efforts to improve the performance and competitiveness of universities can be done by optimizing the role of human capital, structural capital, and relational capital both individually and integrated as intellectual capital. Another method that can be used is the comprehensive intellectual capital management or CICM method. Keywords: Ranking, performance, competitiveness, intellectual capital

scholarly journals Recording Social Life: Reflexivity and Video Methodology

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Lomax ◽  
N. Casey
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Video Camera ◽  
Research Process ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
Reactive Effect ◽  
Reflexive Analysis

The degree to which researcher generated visual records (for example video texts) may be used to collect valid information about the social world is subject to considerable academic debate (cf. Feld and Williams, 1975; Gottdiener, 1979 and Grimshaw, 1982). On the one hand the method is assumed, by implication, to have limited impact on the data, the taped image being treated as a replica of the unrecorded event (Vihman and Greenlee, 1987; Vuchinich, 1986). On the other, it is suggested that the video camera has a uniquely distorting effect on the researched phenomenon (Gottdiener, 1979: p. 61; Heider, 1976: p. 49). Research participants, it is argued, demonstrate a reactive effect to the video process such that data is meaningful only if special precautions are taken to validate it. Strategies suggested include a covert approach to the data collection itself (cf. Eibl-Eibesfeldt and Haass, 1974; Gottdiener, 1979; Albrecht, 1985) or the application of triangulative techniques such as respondent validation (Gottdiener, 1979; Albrecht, 1985 and Arborelius and Timpka, 1990). In this paper we suggest that both these views are problematic. The insistence of one on marginalising the role of the research process and the other on attempting to separate the process from the research data is at the expense of exploring the degree to which the process helps socially and interactionally produce the data. As we demonstrate, the activity of data collection is constitutive of the very interaction which is then subsequently available for investigation. A reflexive analysis of this relationship is therefore essential. Video generated data is an ideal resource in as far as it can provide a faithful record of the process as an aspect of the naturally occurring interaction which comprises the research topic.

scholarly journals Almost Confessional: Managing Emotions When Research Breaks Your Heart

2021 ◽  
pp. 136078042110367
Author(s):  
Kate Reed ◽  
Laura Towers
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Emotional Labour ◽  
Sibling Bereavement ◽  
Original Contribution ◽  
Shed Light

Social scientists have increasingly shown how qualitative research can be an emotional experience for researchers. Literature on this subject has tended to focus on the emotionally upsetting impact of data collection, often framing this as a form of emotional labour which can be managed by researchers adopting confessional style narratives throughout the research process. But what about the potentially life-affirming impacts of emotions in research? And what happens when confessional style narratives create, rather than dilute, emotional trauma? We use our experiences of conducting qualitative research on two very emotive topics – baby loss and sibling bereavement – to explore the role of emotions in research. We go beyond the predominant focus on doing research to shed light on emotions in the wider research process (from recruitment to impact). We will highlight the dual-edged nature of emotions in research, emphasising some of the more beneficial impacts. Drawing on the Weberian concept of Verstehen which focuses on the importance of understanding, we will also develop a more nuanced form of emotion management in this context. In doing so, we offer an original contribution to methodological discussions in this field, as well as to more conceptual debates on emotional labour.

scholarly journals Autonomous Learning Writing Promoted by the Use of Facebook Group

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Khairil Razali
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Autonomous Learning ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
The Media

In aglobalized world, internet facilities and social media are becoming increasingly important and take a strategic role in most of human activities. One of them is in the education and learning sector. This qualitative research explored the role of a Facebook group to increase students' autonomy in learning writing. The experiment was conducted with qualitative methodology to 6 students as a sample. The process of data collection is done through the media Facebook group which was developed during the data collection through observation and interviews. The research lasted for 30(thirty) days in which researchers became the administrator and facilitator. From the process of collecting and analyzing the data assumed that Facebook group influenced the autonomy and promote independent of students learning in writing. Keywords: Facebook group ; Students autonomy ; Learning writing

Review of Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of the Emotions.

1990 ◽  
Vol 35 (7) ◽  
pp. 729-730
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Role

Alignment

2016 ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Pier Giuseppe Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Enactive Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Education Today ◽  
Current Context ◽  
The Subject

The subject of alignment is not new to the world of education. Today however, it has come to mean different things and to have a heuristic value in education according to research in different areas, not least for neuroscience, and to attention to skills and to the alternation framework.This paper, after looking at the classic references that already attributed an important role to alignment in education processes, looks at the strategic role of alignment in the current context, outlining the shared construction processes and focusing on some of the ways in which this is put into effect.Alignment is part of a participatory, enactive approach that gives a central role to the interaction between teaching and learning, avoiding the limits of behaviourism, which has a greater bias towards teaching, and cognitivism/constructivism, which focus their attention on learning and in any case, on that which separates a teacher preparing the environment and a student working in it.

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