Category Archives: EDEV_501

I completed the EdD courses successfully, and I have just finalised my doctoral proposal submission. The next stage is to navigate the Ethics board before I can begin any data collection. So, with these movements, I’m going to change the … Continue reading →

I fully agree with you that in the short time scale of ten weeks, fully implementing a radical action research project is unlikely. However, it is exactly that that I will be attempting. I expect to fail, but the manner … Continue reading →

Thanks for explaining your plan for the data analysis. You characterise later differences between initial conceptions of data analysis and later ones as “go[ing] wrong” (Aman, 2016), and this may be indicative of your analytical technique. When I asked my … Continue reading →

I fully agree with you that ethical considerations have to be foundational and inform our research. Ethics has such a pervasive influence in any research programme, and I have a couple of questions relating to your design with regard to … Continue reading →

You ask an intriguing question, “Is there any special trick you have found in the literature to support a sharpener not only being good at coding, but also abstraction?” (Amann, 2016), to which I can only reply that my reading … Continue reading →

Your comment encouraged me to check the viability of grounded theory (GT) as a methodology for use in the interview data analysis. GT is fundamentally an iterative process (Charmaz, 2006; Hadley, 2015). Figure 1 demonstrates the necessity of returning to … Continue reading →

The actions in research must necessarily be limited not only to the imagination of the researcher but to the physical and intellectual conditions that surround the research. Practicality and feasibility are two core notions that were discussed this week. “Research … Continue reading →

Your intention to study access rates, achievement rates and other issues that affect black students in Toronto is very interesting. That passion informs your intellectual orientation is laudable, following the moral philosopher Hume who first recognised that our reason must … Continue reading →