What is Research? Lecture

What is Research?

Empiricism - Scientific research, experiments and observing.
Quantitative - Lead to data & facts. Numbers & charts. Certain style may occur more than once.
Qualitative - Interviews, constantly doing qualitative research, talking to others. Organise it!


Action Research 
Academically figuring the process of reserach. A way of defining of what we do in a practice based research. Constant reflection & refinement.



Methodology.
Method - A way of proceeding about something in a systematicor logical manner.
Methodology - The science of method, employed in a particular activity.

Some Methodologies





There are many ways to approach a topic and you always have an idea that you want to do. What you are doing is that you are selecting a method due to others don't seem to make sense. Your picking a methodology without thinking about it. Therefore you are making EPISTEMOLOGICAL decisions.

Epistemology - Ways of thinking about thinking & selecting different ways about selecting aspect and knowing that one reason will take you to a certain answer.

The Hermeneutic Circle
Developed  & described by Heidegger