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- Alerby, Eva, et al.
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'Dammed taxi cab' : how silent communication in questionnaires can be understood and used to give voice to children's experiences
- 2011
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Ingår i: International Journal of Research and Method in Education. - 1743-727X .- 1743-7288. ; 34:2, s. 117-130
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 'Dammed taxi cab' - a 12-year-old boy wrote these words in the margins of a questionnaire, and within this paper they will serve as a point of departure for the discussion of the use of questionnaires as a way to voice children's experiences. The overall aim of this paper is to enable understanding of and discuss the use of questionnaires as a way to voice children's experiences. An analysis in accordance with a life-world approach has provided the lens through which to explore messages that can occur in questionnaires. The key research questions that will be explored in an attempt to answer the overall aim are: (i) how can unanswered questions and notes in the margins of a questionnaire be understood? and (ii) why is a questionnaire not always completed, according to the intention of its creators? To develop an understanding of this we analysed a number of questionnaires with unanswered questions and notes in the margins using a life-world approach. During the analysis two themes emerged: silent messages and messages being silenced. Finally, we discuss the legitimacy of questionnaires in childhood research and possible implications for practice when using this method to give voice to children's experiences.
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- Fox, A, et al.
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Doing reflexivity : Moments of unbecoming and becoming
- 2013
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Ingår i: International Journal of Research and Method in Education. - : Routledge. - 1743-727X .- 1743-7288. ; 37:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper offers an account of a reflexive ‘trip’ undertaken by a professional doctoral student and her supervisor. It presents a series of vignettes which offer an account of unbecomings and becomings encountered by the student. Making use of a dialogic approach in which the supervisor responds to the student, we suggest this method of data collection might offer an innovative approach which goes beyond simple recollection to enable a deeper level of reflexive action. In so doing, we have identified three lines along which reflexivity appears to have been practised: conceptual, ethical and performative. These expose reflexivity as partial, fragmented and dynamic.
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- Scherp, Hans-Åke
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Quantifying qualitative data using cognitive maps
- 2013
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Ingår i: International Journal of Research and Method in Education. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1743-727X .- 1743-7288. ; 36:1, s. 67-81
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of the article is to show how substantial qualitative material consisting of graphic cognitive maps can be analysed by using digital CmapTools, Excel and SPSS. Evidence is provided of how qualitative and quantitative methods can be combined in educational research by transforming qualitative data into quantitative data to facilitate discoveries of patterns in the data. Examples are drawn from research on conceptions of both different teaching methods and on school leadership related to school development. The rationale for using cognitive map interviews as a method for data collection is presented. Cognitive, theoretical and methodological issues are discussed. Tools that might be used to facilitate detection of patterns in a substantial number of maps are reviewed. It is demonstrated how unique expressions on individual cognitive maps visualizing different understandings can be transformed into a common system of concepts which make it possible to use quantitative methods to find patterns in comprehensive qualitative data.
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