Assignment 4 – Redo of the Lit Review

Assignment 4, my first assignment of year 2 is due in this week. I worked on this a bit in the online residential weekend which was good to get started early and technically it was pretty separate to the module work I was also getting on with, so no concerns about having to get to

Module 5 wrap-up and starting Module 6

Module 5 – wrap-up After the excitement of last week’s online residential weekend I had a bit of wrapping up to do on Module 5 before getting on with everything else. I had left two not as important (to me anyway) methodologies to last – so went ahead with action research and phenomenology. Action Research

Writers warm-up

Write for 5 minutes. Write whatever comes to mind. Write in full sentences but don’t worry about SPG. Do not stop. If you get to a point where you no longer what to write write “I don’t know what to write”. Don’t read what you’ve written, just loosen the fingers! writers warm up rules Wow.

Module 4 – Logics of enquiry and research philosophy

Following on from my last post we then moved to logics of enquiry and explored four main ones: Inductive/Induction – making observations (often in the form of objective facts) and drawing inferences from these resulting in generalisations. Observe, analyse, infer, confirm. Deductive/Deduction – begin with hypotheses/preconceptions that come from theories; using why questions for explanations.

Module 4 – Paradigms etc

Phew. So glad to have reached this point. I remember when I started in October I had resolved to attend student seminars whenever possible – to network, be supportive and also learn. The first was that same month and was conducted by two 3rd year students. I understood most of it, but for some of