Designing SoTL Projects

A brief overview of types of observations and how to go about it

I really liked one of the insights from a course participants on how important it is to first and foremost get your research question straight before thinking about anything else. So I used this as an excuse to once again emphasis why methodology and the process is so important. 

I made an animated visual for this podcast

Same ramblings about reflective practice, reflective models and autoethnography 

This is Nicole's Handout on the topic and my commentary 

As usual if you want to reference find the resource here: 

Kipar, Nicole (2020): Reflection as Product. figshare. Online resource. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12818348.v2

Here I am reading Nicole Kipar's handout on reflecting in practice. If you want to reference please use the follow source: 

Kipar, Nicole (2020): Reflection in Practice. figshare. Online resource. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12818336.v2

And the link will also lead you to the document if you prefer this over the podcast. 

If you like me had to actually exercise how to pronounce Mihály Csíkszentmihályi's name follow this YouTube link

Let's tip our toes into a definition

I really liked the brief overview by the General Teaching Council Scotland

The four sections on this website lead you to more in depth discussions of the 'Why's' for practitioner inquiry

I really like this quote from the Sage Research Methods site about Practitioner Inquiry: 

"Practitioner inquiry is about the practitioner, whether they're a teacher, a lawyer, a doctor, or a social worker thinking about their work in a very curious, but also a very systematic way."

I am reading a definition from one or our CPD sessions provided by Dr Michael McEwan and the paragraph from the Sage Dictionary of  Social Research Methods which is one of our textbooks and available online in the library

If you are not in our institution this is the publisher's website or ask your local library is the have a subscription to Sage Research Methods online resources. 

I am reading the handout developed by Nicole Kipar for our course, the link will also take you to the document. 

If you want to reference this please use the following reference and DOI: Kipar, Nicole (2021): Grounded Theory. figshare. Online resource. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13607393.v1 

To make the invisible visible, to question the familiar... 

Walford ed. (2008) How to do educational ethnography. Tufnell: London http://encore.lib.gla.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3097500

The Journal 'Ethnography and Education' might be of interest: https://www-tandfonline- com.ezproxy.lib.gla.ac.uk/toc/reae20/current

Beach et al (2018) The Wiley Handbook of Ethnography in Education. https://onlinelibrary- wiley-com.ezproxy.lib.gla.ac.uk/doi/book/10.1002/9781118933732 this is available as ebook. I had not yet a chance to read it but might be worthwhile exploring

I was just reviewing a paper and I know realised how to explain better (hopefully) what is bugging me in more method justifications I am reading in articles to review or assignments. 

The difference between providing procedural justification of a method, such as a semi-structured interview provides structure, consistency etc and qualifying reasons such as how does the method actually answer my questions, provide good quality data and enable my research participants to actually participate and have a voice?