ED243 Week 6 Presentation: Sources of Evidence and Causal Frames (Thinking with a Case) by SHIVANI DAVE

Reading 1

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Denzin, N.K. (2009). “The elephant in the living room: Or extending the conversation about the politics of evidence.”

A question for consideration: How can we disrupt the timeline of the research process, knowing that the standards of evidence that we are being held to are politicized and non-neutral anyway?

Reading 2

shivani729 — 2024-05-07 19:27:30 UTC

Erickson, F. (2012). Comments on causality in qualitative inquiry. Qualitative Inquiry, 18(8), 686-688.

Thinking about your work, how can qualitative and/or quantitative methods be leveraged to aid in understanding causal mechanisms?

Reading 3

shivani729 — 2024-05-07 19:27:36 UTC

Medin, D., et al. (2017). “Systems of (non)diversity.”

How does a researcher’s background and training influence the research process and the participants they study?

Reading 4

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Harding, S. (2015). Objectivity and diversity: Another logic of scientific research.

In your own works, what are the variety of sources that you use for evidence? How are these sources evaluated with “objectivity” / “diversity”?
Assume you are writing a funding/grant proposal, and you are required to convince the reviewers that your study is “objective”. How can you show them based on what you learn in the class?

Reading 5

shivani729 — 2024-05-07 19:27:46 UTC

Lewis, M.C. (2018). “A critique of the principle of error correction as a theory of social change.”

Does the rise of research for social change require that researchers address problems of evidence or of racism, colonialism, and white supremacy, as exemplified by Labov and Lewis?