Category: Planning

Design versus planning: what to do when you don’t know what to do

The scientific method has been responsible for the most extraordinary improvement in mankind’s standard of living. Since the Enlightenment and the Renaissance, it has been responsible for every major advance in human understanding and technology. The scientific method relies on a positivists worldview, which can be said to value certainty, control, objective reality, and planning. […]

Exploring the “n-dimensional” space of Narrative Inquiry

I always thought of storytelling as being of 1 kind; I am uncovering that there is something like an “n-dimensional space” of perspectives on story-telling. For instance, on just one dimension: scope.  There is a hierarchy of how “complete and of what size” the story is that includes the following categories (arbitrary right now, and of […]

Structuring “Voice” for academic reseachers

My mentor sent me an intriguing link concerning an evolution in the standards, structure, presentation and style for online articles published in the CELL network of 2000 scientific journals. here are the essential new proposed standards, which would be a great way for us to prepare lesson prep materials for our college . I will […]

Reflecting on world views and mixed methods designs of research

Image by Wonderlane via Flickr Comparison of Creswell’s continuum of research and Edmondson’s methodological fit chart. 1. Creswell describes a single continuum that connects qualitative and quantitative research at the endpoints with mixed methods in the middle. This model implies that there is a single dimension along which methodology can be arrayed. I don’t think […]

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