Early Conversations
A description that explains connections between the factors around a phenomenon that we are interested in exploring
What is theory?
What is Positivism?
The pursuit of knowledge, about seeking and communicating knowledge
What is research?
A study that involves data in some form. These studies collect and analyze data and support their assertions through evidence
What is empirical?
A frame that guides your whole research project
What is a conceptual framework?
This paradigm is about questioning power disparities in the phenomena we study
What is Critical?
A system that hierarchically orders humans, focuses on property and erases other ways of knowing a being
What is settler colonialism?
A view of knowledge that assumes that there is an objective ubiased reality that is independent of context
What is objectivism?
What is axiology?
In this paradigm, reality is not objective. It is constructed based on the context in which the phenomena are studied and the phenomena are interpreted by us
What is constructivist-interpretivist?
Educational research must be accountable to learning, knowledge, and context.
What is answerability?
There is no objective Truth; we construct our own versions and interpretations of reality
What is constructivism?
A particular view of what reality is or what is real or true about the world
What is ontology?
Not only does this paradigm reveal power disparities, but it is also interested in transforming existing realities
What is critical-ideological?
Research is a fundamentally relational project, relational to ways of knowing, who can know, and place.
What is meant by research is relational?
There is no objective truth: everything we can know about a phenomenon resides with the subjects who live those realities
What is subjectivism?
What is knowledge, and how do you know what you know?
What is epistemology?
Not attached to a particular paradigm, uses whichever one as long as it reveals knowledge about the phenomenon they are interested in
What is pragmatism?
How we make meaning of material conditions and our actions, study them, and communicate those findings is inextricably bound up with the ongoing project of coloniality
What does it mean when we say educational research is a site of coloniality?
This type of critique is interested in understanding what possibilities open up when studying existing (unjust) realities
What is affirmative critique?