longer term. Fieldwork opportunities include a weather log‚ flood impacts survey‚ flood/drought risk assessments and flood management assessments. Research work could relate to weather records‚ satellite images‚ hurricane data‚ and use of various management strategies. |Topic Title |Enquiry Question |What students need to learn |Teaching and learning activities |Resources and fieldwork opportunities
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2006 CONTENTS Definition of Qualitative Research in Social Sciences Approaches to Management Research Positivism versus Phenomenology Deductive and Inductive Schools of Thought in Management Research Major Qualitaitve Research Approaches Ethnographic Approach Phenomenology Field Research Grounded Theory Case study Action Research Narrative research Qualitative Data Collection Techniques Interviews Workshops / Focus Groups Literature Review Participant Observation
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School Based Assessment Social Studies My Topic: Do the grade 10 students of my school believe that they are influenced by their peers? Name: Anna Maxwell Reg. Number: 100000 Proficiency: General Territory: Caribbean Examination Year: 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS * Chapter One (1) * Chapter Two (2) : Procedure for Collecting Data Sample Questionnaire * Chapter Three (3) : Data Presentation Data Analysis * Chapter
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In sociology‚ quantitative research refers to the systematic empirical investigation of social phenomena via statistical‚ mathematical or numerical data or computational techniques.[1] The objective of quantitative research is to develop and employ mathematical models‚ theories and/or hypotheses pertaining to phenomena. The process of measurement is central to quantitative research because it provides the fundamental connection between empirical observation and mathematical expression of quantitative
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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY The criteria for the M.A. thesis in the M.A. Counseling Psychology program is stated on page 20 as follows: Within the context of the Institute’s guiding vision‚ students are encouraged to select a particular topic that they wish to explore in depth. Towards this end‚ the student is asked: 1. To pursue an area of individual interest relevant to the issues of counseling psychology (e.g.‚ therapeutic issues‚ psychological motifs‚ clinical procedures). 2. To ground this
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sSeven excerpts from Erving Goffman’s 1974 remarks on fieldwork can serve as his virtual preface to this narrative about his legacy. I begin with Goffman’s definition of participant observation: “By participant observation‚” he said‚ “I mean a technique . . . of getting data . . . by subjecting yourself‚ your own body and your own personality and your own social situation‚ to the set of contingencies that play upon a set of individuals so that you can physically and ecologically penetrate their circle
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Questions for Tutorial 3 1. What is ethnographic research? State the difference between an ethnographic research and a psychometric research and give example from applied linguistic studies. 2. Find a report of an ethnographic research in applied linguistics and give your comments on the following points: The research question The contexts the research was conducted What is group or case under study? What conceptual and theoretical frame works inform the study? What field techniques were
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positive attitude about their recovery during their treatment session‚ the student should conduct themselves in a positive manner when helping the client achieve their goals. In addition‚ if the student is on their lunch break during a day at fieldwork‚ the student is expected to positively represent themselves‚ their program‚ and their university. If the student interacts with an employee who graduated from the same university‚ but the employee makes negative remarks about a faculty member‚ the
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One Banana Leaf Bundles and Skirts: A Pacific Penelope’s Web? Margaret Jolly In her review of the significance of cloth in Pacific polities‚ Annette Weiner has evoked the persona of Penelope‚ “weaving by day‚ and unweaving the same fabric by night‚ in order to halt time” (1986‚ 108).[1] This image of a Pacific Penelope halting time was inspired by Weiner’s reanalysis of the Trobriand islands. In her monograph (1976)‚ in several subsequent papers (1980‚ 1982a‚ 1983a‚ 1986) and in her shorter text
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In Youth Work‚ Nichols draws on an institutional ethnography and communitybased research‚ which was conducted over the course of more than one year at an Ontario youth emergency shelter – ‘Street Youth Shelter‚ Middlesborough’. Nichols adopts a definition of youth work in the book that extends beyond the work of a “child and youth worker” (p.5) to include “all of the things young people do in institutional settings… as well as the activities of any practitioner who works with youth” (p.6). She argues
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