BLOG POST #2: Take some time to make sure you have a general sense of these different research ideologies. Where do you feel most aligned in these research ideologies? Then, reflect on how these frameworks might shape your approach to one of the questions you pondered in your blog last week. (“If I were to take a post-positivist approach, I might answer my question this way…. If I took a Constructivist approach, I might answer my question that way.”)
I align with constructivist ideologies. My question from last week was, "What If I could speak to a group of 5 NGOs?" This question is a research approach to understanding non-governmental organizations and how they may be functioning.
If I took a Constructivist approach, I would answer my question by learning what I already know about the NGOs and learning from shadowing and interviewing members of the organization. My prior knowledge, personal experience, and research in the context of NGOs. Constructivists believe researchers need to understand the social context and culture in which the data are produced to reflect the data's meaning to the study. In reality, folks who attend experience NGOs, women, men, babies, and elders may experience the space positively and negatively. There is a gray area in my own experience. If I am coming into the office
Post-positivism believes the truth is out there; there is only one truth. My question is that quantitative data, where there is a strict experience of data, attendance, and applications. The question itself is not a postpositivist approach.
If I took a Constructivist approach, I would need a more intense question to be asked, I would need to reframe.
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