Unravelling the Web of Qualitative Dissertation Writing!

2022 ◽  
pp. 260-282
Author(s):  
Nirupama R. Akella
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Critical Literacy ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Social Science Discipline ◽  
Dissertation Writing ◽  
Qualitative Dissertation ◽  
The Web

This chapter, written in the first person, uses the research method of autoethnography to identify, explore, and discuss six key elements essential for writing a qualitative dissertation in a social science discipline. The author bases her autoethnographic account of reflections, dialogue, and theory within a conceptual framework of critical literacy and a grounded theory analytical approach to detail six foundational elements of qualitative dissertation writing which must be present in the doctoral student's arsenal before beginning to write the dissertation and/or draft. The chapter attempts to solve a dilemma of paucity of empirical research by doctoral students/candidates about how to write qualitative dissertations. The purpose of the chapter is to showcase and unravel the dissertation writing web from a doctoral student/candidate's active learning experience and perspective.

Writing Qualitative Dissertations

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherick Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Dissertation Writing ◽  
Social Science Literature ◽  
Qualitative Dissertation

Writing qualitative dissertations represents an internationally recognized pinnacle for students of higher education. The pressures and incentives for students approaching the dissertation writing landscape are undeniable. Unfortunately, too many doctoral students are offered limited strategies to begin navigating it. Moreover, doctoral students seeking maps from Education and other social science literature to guide them will find limited peer-reviewed scholarship that addresses the complexity of writing defensible qualitative dissertations. Too many doctoral students instead turn to some of the most popular qualitative dissertation textbooks that tend to provide limited representations of the writing landscape, albeit unintentional. These students may begin writing only to find that such landscape representations prepare them inadequately for the complexity of the territory. It is a territory filled with a variety of evolving writing tasks and possibilities. Doctoral students may consider at least seven evolving sets of tasks (ESTs) as strategies for navigating the messy terrain of the qualitative dissertation writing territory.

Can web ecology provide a clearer understanding of people’s information behavior during election campaigns?

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoonjae Nam ◽  
Yeon-Ok Lee ◽  
Han Woo Park
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Local Elections ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Online Networks ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Perceived Importance ◽  
Hyperlink Analysis ◽  
The Web

This article examines the web ecology of the 2010 local elections in South Korea by using social science hyperlink analysis. The online networks of candidates were measured daily during the official campaign period. The results indicate that network dynamics among the candidates for education superintendent changed more rapidly as the campaign progressed than in the case of the mayoral candidates. However, the intensity of online networks for both campaigns was lower than for the country’s last presidential election, in 2007, suggesting that the web ecology of a given election is influenced by the perceived importance of the event and the general popularity of certain candidates. The results also suggest that producing and disseminating information, such as news articles, blog posts and tweets, reflects a more politically conscious action than referring to information via hyperlinks. Furthermore, the article sheds light on the ways in which hyperlink analysis serves as a research method for mining data for web ecology analysis, tracking political events at different points in time and illustrating the general landscape of electoral communication in cyberspace.

The Education of Research Psychologists in Sweden

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Knut Larsson ◽  
Josef Frischer
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Doctoral Programs ◽  
Science Department ◽  
Research Education ◽  
The Core ◽  
Social Science Department ◽  
Learning Alliance ◽  
Laissez Faire ◽  
The Government

The education of researchers in Sweden is regulated by a nationwide reform implemented in 1969, which intended to limit doctoral programs to 4 years without diminishing quality. In an audit performed by the government in 1996, however, it was concluded that the reform had failed. Some 80% of the doctoral students admitted had dropped out, and only 1% finished their PhD degree within the stipulated 4 years. In an attempt to determine the causes of this situation, we singled out a social-science department at a major Swedish university and interviewed those doctoral students who had dropped out of the program. This department was found to be representative of the nationwide figures found in the audit. The students interviewed had all completed at least 50% of their PhD studies and had declared themselves as dropouts from this department. We conclude that the entire research education was characterized by a laissez-faire attitude where supervisors were nominated but abdicated. To correct this situation, we suggest that a learning alliance should be established between the supervisor and the student. At the core of the learning alliance is the notion of mutually forming a platform form which work can emerge in common collaboration. The learning alliance implies a contract for work, stating its goals, the tasks to reach these goals, and the interpersonal bonding needed to give force and endurance to the endeavor. Constant scrutiny of this contract and a mutual concern for the learning alliance alone can contribute to its strength.

scholarly journals MENINGKATKAN HASIL BELAJAR SISWA PADA MATAPELAJARAN IPS DENGAN METODE MIND MAPPING

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Kartika Sari
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Mind Mapping ◽  
Models Of Teaching ◽  
The Given

<div style="text-align: JUSTIFY;"><p>Social science has been viewed as naturally theoretic, which requires students to memorize all learned materials. The learning experience will be stucked in freez learning atmosphere when the teacher traditionally preeches and dictates against the students, as the teacher-centered approaches have run. This model of teaching produces passive students with low acheivement. In effort of dveloping the vivid learning experience, variative models of teaching must be applied by the teacher. Through this research, the researcher proposes Mind Mapping Teaching Method, hopping that the the students learning activities and achievement can be developed. Mind mapping teaching method can tentatively encourage student to be active, innovative, creative and imaginative along the way with the learning process. The application of mind mapping teaching method can hopefully develop students learning activities and achievement through the given action research design.<em></em></p></div>

scholarly journals The Development Of Students’ Ecological Intellegence Through Journalist Activity In The Learning Of Social Studies

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Gina Lasminingrat
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Action Observation ◽  
Class Action ◽  
Environmental Issue ◽  
Class Environment ◽  
Planning Action ◽  
Development Of Students ◽  
Science Material

This research began with the observation which was done in VIII-C class SMPN 19 Bandung, there were lack of student’s awareness in keeping class environment, it looked from scatter waste and the lamp that was left turning on when the class began. From the condition, it needs the effort in order to make the students are able to understand a concept of social science material which can increase the ecological intelligent development. The implementation of journalistic activity becomes the alternative that was chosen to develop students’ ecological intelligent development. Journalistic activity aims to make students aware about living environmental issue in their surroundings. Meanwhile, the method that was used was class action research method (PTK) with the design which was developed byKemmis and Mc Taggart in which each cycle consists of planning, action, observation and implementation of reflection. Based on the result of the research of developing students’ ecological intelligence showed enough in first cycle, in cycle 2 and 3 had increasing and they were in good category. Based on the result of three cycles that had been done, there were enhanced in each category. It shows that through journalistic activity, there is enhanced in students’ ecological intelligence.

scholarly journals Misconceptions between Social Studies and Social Sciences among Pre-Service Elementary Teachers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miftakhuddin Miftakhuddin
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Elementary Teachers ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
Social Science Discipline ◽  
Science Discipline ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Main Emphasis

This quantitative study was conducted to identify the misconception between social studies and social sciences among pre-service elementary teachers. Data were collected from 122 respondents drawn by cluster sampling in Yogyakarta. Aiken's validity and Cronbach Alpha were then employed to examine the instrument's quality. Collected data were analyzed using descriptive techniques to examine the level of misconception. The popular misconceptions between social studies and social sciences were identified through the criteria developed by Abraham, Grzybowski, Renner, &amp; Marek (1992). The results of the study show that there was a greater understanding of social studies and social sciences for the specific fields of geography, anthropology, and politics. The fields that were misconceived included economics, geography, and history. Therefore, the main emphasis should be placed on these fields.The implications of this research will eventually become the basis and guideline for social studies lecturers to give emphases on the fields of study belonging to social studies,helping students distinguish these disciplines from those of social sciences. In addition, each social science discipline adopted into social studies must receive special attention, given the greater level of misconception among the pre-service teachers in these fields.

scholarly journals The Effects of Using a Fully Integrated Mobile Application to Access Learning Management Systems in Higher Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (9) ◽  
pp. 1213-1229
Author(s):  
José Martín-Núñez ◽  
Susana Sastre ◽  
José Peiró ◽  
José Hilera
Keyword(s):  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Learning Management Systems ◽  
Academic Major ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Learning Management ◽  
The Web

The use of mobile devices in the classroom is increasingly frequent. However, the LMS are still not completely adapted to this format, preventing students from using all the LMS web-functionalities in their mobiles. Hence, we present and evaluate the use of a new mobile application fully integrated with Learning Management Systems (LMS). We examined access to LMS by 95 postgraduate university students, differentiating between the services accessed and the means used. Students belonged to four consecutive promotions. In the first two, access to the system was through the web, while in the third and fourth, an app fully integrated with the LMS was available. The results showed an overall increase in access to LMS, with a considerable reduction in access via the web in favor of access via the application. Significant differences were found in the access patterns to communication and assessment services depending on the students' age, gender, academic major and previous m-learning experience. Satisfaction with the LMS rose when the app was available, with greater growth within the academic major on IT and previous m-learning experience group. Finally, students with high performance accessed the system significantly more than those with low performance. In conclusion, the integration of the app with the system showed useful and efficient results. The app eased the use of the system, increased student satisfaction with LMS, and student performance improved with increased access.

scholarly journals The Ground They Walk On: Photography and Narrative Inquiry

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Ketelle
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Research Method ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Photo Elicitation ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Novel Variation

In this project, the author explores a novel variation on an established social science research method, photo-elicitation. The author photographed eight school principals during a two-year period and asked the principals to respond to the photographs by writing narratives below each. The author uses photography, reflections, and her own memories to construct descriptive narrative snapshots of the eight principals. Further, the author argues that this approach underscores how photographs are both technically and socially constructed and through the use of photo-elicitation new ways of understanding self and others in relation can be explored.

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