Who am I as an adult learner: I am framing the answer within the context of my “Big 5” (Strelecky, 2007). The “Big 5” focus my thoughts about self, purpose, mission and values. In Strelecky’s work, the Big 5 are 5 things you want to accomplish in your life. My “Big 5” are all states […]
Tag: research
Management games for deep insight
Peter Checkland’s Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) describes the use of models to help us frame questions to ask of the world, and which help us become explicit about our world views, assumptions, frames of reference, theories of cause and effect, values, and desired outcomes. Checkland, P. (2006) Learning for action: A short definitive account of […]
A reflection on mixed methods research in adult education
Introduction The Research Problem The purpose of this paper is to offer one vision of developing a methodological theory of mixed methods research co-equal with that of quantitative and qualitative research. I use a case study of the US Army Command & General Staff College engaged in a redesign of its curriculum, its teaching practices […]
The Many Distinctions of Narrative Inquiry
While conducting a methodological review of narrative inquiry as a technique to create meaning from heaps of data, both qualitative and quantitative it quickly became apparent that narrative inquiry is a much broader and deeper and diversified field than I originally thought. It is such a rich area that it deserves some detail research in […]
The variety of perspectives in narrative inquiry
when I was reviewing my research questions for the qualitative portion of my mixed methods project, I became intrigued by the idea of narrative inquiry as a process to help me make meaning out of the reams of data that I had been accumulating from various cycles of participatory action research with students, faculty, curriculum […]
Traders Roundtable: Maximum Compounded Return Versus Fear of Drawdown
In a recent traders roundtable discussion on the subject of balancing maximum gain with risk management the question was posed how to reconcile these two issues. A few definitions for the purposes of this essay are in order. First let’s consider maximum compounded return to be defined as a system that is traded at every […]
Testing the Word 2007 Blog publishing template
This is to see how things come through when written in Word 2007 and pushed to the blog site. Here is a sample picture: Am wondering how tags and categories are handled?
Traders roundtable discussion: the issue of optimization in research
We were having a traders’ roundtable discussion on the topic of researching potential trading systems and the issue of optimization came up. This is a very important topic for traders who want to apply a systematic approach to trading markets. Here are some of the highlights of that discussion for you to consider as you […]
The future of education in a net-centric world
reinventinglife.org Surveys of CEOs and futurists alike all agree that the future is calling to us with a need for open systems, open thinking, collaborative organizations, workplaces and attitudes. Net-centric democratic education, public and private movements for social justice, moral and honorable business enterprises, and cross cultural communications all place a premium on skills, tools, […]
when post-positivism meets uncertainty
I am thinking about trying to figure out how to conduct research “properly” in the regions beyond the boundary of post-positivism. Think of a farm that now borders the deep dark woods. In the beginning we have a farm, surrounded by other farms, and over time, we haved figured out through trial and error, what […]