ACI3622 Key Words
I have been writing this list as I have been trudging through my second module. I hope this is helpful for some fellow students. I have learnt some cool words along this journey of the unknown.
My Key Words:
Ethnography: The study of people or cultures, that involves the researcher visiting the people/culture to find out more about them. Nowadays, this style of research requires the researcher to acknowledge how their own relationship with the people/culture and own personal experience can impact their own understanding (and conduct of the research).
Ethical Consideration: The discussions, ideas and different approaches to something, a topic, subject matter… (acknowledging it is someone’s birthday)
Ethical Procedures: The things you are doing to follow expected civil rights in research. (buying that person a birthday card)
Narrative Inquiry: Narrative inquiry is a way of understanding and inquiring into experience through “collaboration between researcher and participants, over time, in a place or series of places, and in social interaction with milieus” (Clandinin and Connelly, 2000: 20)
A narrative inquiry is rooted in telling or living of stories. It is a research technique that emphasises on ethical matters, shaping new theoretical understandings of people’s experiences.
Qualitative Research: A research method that values the reasons why and where, the story/background/quality of things so that we understand better. A way of observing non-numerical data whilst creating meaning-making.
Literature Review: A type of review article that includes the current substantial findings and contributions to a particular topic. It shows that you have an in-depth understanding of your subject and how your research fits, adds and relates to your chosen topic.
Non-Verbal Reasoning: Understanding, analysing information and solving problems using visual reasoning. For example, recognising visual sequences, similarities and differences between shapes and patterns.
Psychological Inflexibility: Where one feels a greater difficulty with being fully present in their current unfolding reality, therefore more rigid in their attempt to adapt their behaviour to present current values and contexts.
Emotional Intelligence: The ability to understand your own emotions and of those around you. One having a high degree of emotional intelligence will know what they are feeling, what those emotions mean and how their emotions affect other people.
Methodology: The framework of why you are doing something in a particular way.
Theoretical Framework: A device which explains graphically or narratively the things to be studied.
Non-Positivist Approach: Initiating an inquiry process of research with the assumption that things are constructed from a number of elements. Your presence, as an insider researcher, can change those elements, and all is inter-related and networking together. This embodied approach does not seek to fix certainty (Thomas, 2003)
Positivist Approach: Initiating an inquiry process of research with the assumption that there is something to be fixed out there to be ‘found’. As an outsider researcher, you do not influence the results. The World, mind and body exist independently of each other in Cartesian dualism.
Cartesian Dualism: Mind and body are separate entities, with the mind being superior than the body. This belief system was introduced by Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650) “I think therefore, I am”.
Embodiment: The idea/belief that the body and mind are seen as one thing/closely related that have impact on each other.
Continuum: A continuous series of elements/items that vary by such tiny differences that they do not seem to differ from each other. These adjacent elements are not perceptibly different, but the extremes are quite distinct.
Reflexivity: A term used in social sciences to describe how the researcher must be aware of their own feelings and presence within the mould of their research inquiry.
Preconception: A preconceived idea or prejudice.
Kinetics: The science that describes bodily movement in conjunction with other qualitative information.
Gantt Chart: A type of bar chart that shows a project schedule
Transcribing: To put thoughts, speech or data into written or printed form.
Triangulation: Using more than one method to collect data of the same topic, to assure validity of your research.
Nihilistic: Rejecting all religion and moral principles in the belief that life is meaningless. Patel, V. (2015) Introducing Mental Health: a Practical Guide, Foreword, Jessica Kingsley Publishing: London. 2nd ed, p7, (IMH2)
“We need no longer be nihilistic about the prognosis of people with mental disorders”
Aetiology: The cause, set of causes or manner of causation of a disease or a condition.
‘Lifewide’: A concept that recognises the informal learning that takes place within work based contexts (the social action environment and development of oneself) (Alheit and Dausien, 2002)
This is really helpful, thank you Serina! I have made a list myself of key terms and it is very similar to yours (I did add a few of yours to mine). I was looking though mine to see if I had anymore and the only addition I had was 'Epistemology'- the study of 'what knowledge is'. Not sure if this is of any help to you, but just thought I would share it just in case.
ReplyDeleteHey Serina! This is a very useful and clever thing to do. As someone in Module 3, I have learnt that Ethical Considerations and Ethical Procedures go hand in hand. Ethical Considerations are things that you can only acknowledge and are things that are out of your control or that you can't 'solve'. Ethical Procedures are the steps you put into place to ensure that you are acting ethically and are things that you can solve. Hope this helps!
ReplyDeleteHey Cath! Yes this is helpful. I have just decided to change the order of my proposal so that every consideration is followed by its procedure, instead of breaking both ethical sections up completely. This new layout is contradicting the handbook, but I believe this makes the most sense. I will tune in to your mod 3 presentation when the time. comes!
DeleteThank you very much Sarina, this is such a useful post and practice! Especially as we start to refine our drafts, it is always a good idea to go back to the drawing board and double check that our content is accurate. I also found it useful to read about emotional intelligence again as what we believe ourselves and other people to feel strongly determines our considerations as researchers. This is something to keep in mind as we write our ethical considerations section!
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