Twenty-first Century Learning by Doing
Qualitative research has emerged from a twentieth century ‘paradigm war’ at the doctoral level to become a significant and real opportunity for undergraduate, masters’, and doctoral students at colleges and universities around the world. ESL researchers,
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Twenty-first Century Learning by Doing
By Judith M. Meloy Castleton State College, Vermont, USA
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I read your book on the qualitative dissertation during my coursework and found it to be very useful. Dennis McCunney, graduate student, Morgan State University
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TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LEARNING BY DOING
The most important thing I learned from my research experience is that nothing is more precious, valuable, and meaningful than my research participants. Nothing can surpass humanity. I always think it is a privilege to be able to interview someone or observe someone and finally report what I see and hear in that person. I believe there is an unspoken trust between the participant and the researcher. It is the researcher’s responsibility to maintain the trust. In my opinion, the only way to maintain the trust is to present the authentic image of the participant. I need to be true to my participants. I have to be true to the data – what my participants communicated with me. To a great extent, their words were guiding my thinking and writing, leading the direction of my research. Wanju Huang Best wishes to you in researching and writing this book. I, as your other correspondents I presume, recently finished my qualitative dissertation and found the adventure to be combinations of clarity and confusion, immersion and detachment, excitement and frustration. In the end, though, I believe I found my voice and was able to portray the findings through a depth of understanding that only the qualitative approach lends itself to. Victor Fisher 1. Am I the type of person who can deductively figure out “who did it” half way through a movie, or do I figure it out at the end after hearing all the characters’ stories and the plot has thickened to the boiling point? 2. If I were investigating a crime scene, would I ask each witness the same questions in the same order or would I let a witness’ response dictate what the next question would be? 3.
Do I like adding the numbers, or do I like how the numbers add up?
Cassandra Quigley You will have moments of panic when you wonder “What does all this mean? Why is it important? Who really cares about all this?” Doubts about your work vii
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