Individual approach that you have considered, to analyse your project.
being critical is part of your methodology, criticality is essential for a good methodology and a good methodology will bring critical analysis
Methodology
Every research project needs to have a methodology
What is your methodology? Feminist theory, semiotic analysis, Male gaze theory
document and evidence the research
Every research project will have a methodology, even if it is ill thought out, and you don't recognise it as much
Methodology is a scientistic word, with intimidating connotations, but is actually pretty straight forward.
Simply put, a methodology is:
- A logical systematic, and structured way of organising a research project and gathering necessary information.
- Evidence that you have reflected critically on various research methods and chosen the ones that are most appropriate for your particular research project.
- Therefore, a methodology is unique to each project.
You have to be able to defend your methodology and say why you decided to research your topic in that way.
Questionnaires, interviews, library, observation, drawing, reflective diary, scrap book, photo journalism, writing.
BOOK - Doing your research project - Judith Bell
Consideration of methods in an overarching topic
Epistemology - Thinking about the ways of which you think
Palgrave have website links about methodologies
Quantitative, qualitative or mixture?
What do you think they will enable you to discover?
What kinds of research methods would be best suited to the kind of research you are undertaking and the research questions you are pursuing?
What problems do you envisage in setting up these methods?
What are their benefits?
What will you need to do to ensure they gather useful data?
Literature Reviews - Journals, Libraries, Internet
Outline your methodology at the start of the dissertation. Introduction (1000 words)
Outline research question and defend methodological research method
use the word methodology - writings of Pollock
State a main theorist that you were most influenced by. 2 most important books. Laura Mulvey, Why? If core texts, dates and texts
Documenting this on blogs and sketchbooks
Critical Analysis
Close to Skepticism (philosophy) - coming up with an idea and then trying to disprove it
Reasoned thinking - 'stepping away' and using evidence and logic to come to your conclusions
Where was the author/artist/designer/photographer situated?
critically unpicking a work of art, text etc.
what society was he in, was he racist, where did he live in, was he a communist, what was going on then socially etc.
Look for implied biases
Try to consider different points of view .... where the creator was coming from intellectually etc.
Where am I coming from? How is my choice of topic influenced by my emotions;aspirations; context?
Write about your own practice on your blogs and on your essay. teaching - feminism - changing from the younger generation
reflective evaluations based on theoretical research using a plethora use of research sources.
Critical self-reflective
'context is everything'
Some theories you might think about:
Marxist
Neoliberal
Sociological
Psychological
Postmodernist
Technological
Fundamentalist
Positivist
Coherent argument that underpins it, what out of all your research do you want to say
What do you want to say?
Have you got the evidence to back it up? - quotes and sightations
Triangulation - putting alternative theories against the same body of data
Successful Study for Degrees - Barnes
Keep it simple - refine what you want to say - keep it logical
Evidencing is key!!!!!!!!
Not just in the introduction but the way you write the dissertation.
Small quotes that are inter woven with the text, longer quotes that are unpicked
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