WEBVTT Kind: captions; language: en-us NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 76% (HØY) 00:00:10.500 --> 00:00:21.600 Dear students, welcome to the course of methodology for the master program in special Needs 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:30.600 education. My name is Luca Tateo and I will be the teacher of the qualitative research module. I'm 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:38.900 very happy to be here with you and I will give you a short introduction to this module. Today NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 84% (HØY) 00:00:38.900 --> 00:00:47.050 I'll talk about the structure of the course, the kind of activities that we will carry on and how 00:00:47.050 --> 00:00:58.300 to deal with the material with readings and the tasks that you will find available on Canvas. So let 00:00:58.300 --> 00:01:06.600 me start by briefly introducing myself. I am professor of theory epistemology and methodology of 00:01:06.600 --> 00:01:08.949 qualitative research at the NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 87% (HØY) 00:01:08.949 --> 00:01:18.900 Institute for special needs education, but I have a background in cultural psychology. Actually, 00:01:18.900 --> 00:01:30.900 when I designed this course, this module, I try to think about what could be the needs of the 00:01:30.900 --> 00:01:38.850 special needs students. And what I decided to do is to give you NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 83% (HØY) 00:01:38.850 --> 00:01:48.200 an overview of the range and the possibilities that qualitative methods offer to those 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:56.500 that want to do research, but also to those who want to work in the fields of 00:01:56.500 --> 00:02:04.800 education, in the field of rehabilitation or in the field of social work. So, let me start by 00:02:04.800 --> 00:02:08.850 briefly explaining you how the course NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 84% (HØY) 00:02:08.850 --> 00:02:19.050 structure will be. First of all, we will have unfortunately, we will have only a few meetings, 00:02:19.050 --> 00:02:32.000 few lectures. So for me it will be kind of hard task to give you an idea of the enormous 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:39.750 possibilities that the qualitative research provides to develop new knowledge. NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 89% (HØY) 00:02:39.750 --> 00:02:54.600 So we will have basically seven encounters, in which we will deal with the how to design and how to 00:02:54.600 --> 00:03:06.900 conceive a qualitative research. Then we will deal with the main families of methods like 00:03:06.900 --> 00:03:08.850 observation, interview, NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 82% (HØY) 00:03:08.850 --> 00:03:17.000 visual methods, performative methods and finally, we will try to understand how to analyze and how 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:25.800 to present the analysis and the results of our study. Especially in view of the 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:33.050 preparation of a master thesis, for those who will choose to use qualitative methods in an empirical 00:03:33.050 --> 00:03:38.150 research. NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 91% (HØY) 00:03:38.150 --> 00:03:52.300 For each topic there will be also some specific reedings. I will come right now to this. So how the 00:03:52.300 --> 00:04:00.100 didactic materials are structured. So for each of the seven topics that we will touch during the 00:04:00.100 --> 00:04:08.850 course, you will find some materials on canvas and mainly you will find a short video NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 73% (MEDIUM) 00:04:08.850 --> 00:04:16.500 introduction, as the one you're watching right now, for each of the topics and for the readings 00:04:16.500 --> 00:04:27.550 that are associated to each topic. Then you will find some readings of the pensum, associated to each 00:04:27.550 --> 00:04:38.500 topic and you are required to read the materials, the texts, beforehand. So, before we actually 00:04:38.500 --> 00:04:39.000 meet NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 90% (HØY) 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:51.900 for the lecture. So for each of the topics once we have read the materials, I asked you to come up 00:04:51.900 --> 00:05:02.500 with one question or one reflection about the topic of the lecture. So you can read the text, the 00:05:02.500 --> 00:05:08.799 reading for the lectures and you can for instance ask a question about something which is NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 91% (HØY) 00:05:08.799 --> 00:05:17.900 not clear or hopefully also provide your own reflection or your own experience about the readings. 00:05:17.900 --> 00:05:24.800 Probably most of you already have some kind of background already have studied some kind of 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:33.600 psychology or even done in emprical research. So you may have your own experience to share with us, with 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:38.500 all the rest of our classroom. Finally, when we go to the classroom NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 82% (HØY) 00:05:38.500 --> 00:05:48.750 you will see the the lecture will be recorded and the recording of the lecture will be uploaded on 00:05:48.750 --> 00:06:00.650 on Canvas afterwards. So you can watch it over and over again. The idea is that we use the 00:06:00.650 --> 00:06:05.650 time in a kind of optimal way so that NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 88% (HØY) 00:06:05.650 --> 00:06:16.050 our Hybrid models of partly online and partly in presence, will allow us to have to make the most of 00:06:16.050 --> 00:06:23.400 the time, the short time unfortunately that we have together. So how you should use the materials 00:06:23.400 --> 00:06:31.100 that you will find on Canvas. As I said, you are expected first of all to watch the short video NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 91% (HØY) 00:06:31.100 --> 00:06:40.100 about each topic. In this video, as I'm doing right now, I will give you some orientations about the 00:06:40.100 --> 00:06:48.100 topic, some basic concepts about topic of each lecture and I will also tell you what are the 00:06:48.100 --> 00:06:55.600 highlights or the the main points in each text that you're supposed to read. Then you have 00:06:55.600 --> 00:07:00.950 to carefully read the text pensum for each lecture. NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 89% (HØY) 00:07:00.950 --> 00:07:07.400 And, as I said, you are required to prepare one question or one reflection about the readings 00:07:07.400 --> 00:07:14.700 for that specific topic. You can post your question on the Canvas forum. So each one of you is 00:07:14.700 --> 00:07:23.200 supposed to post a question or a short reflection. Then I will collect all your 00:07:23.200 --> 00:07:30.900 questions and comments. I will organize them into topics and when we meeting classroom, NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 88% (HØY) 00:07:30.900 --> 00:07:42.500 I will answer as much as possible, your question. So my lecture in classroom will consist of 00:07:42.500 --> 00:07:51.900 elaborating or answering your question or deepening some specific or crucial topic of interest. And 00:07:51.900 --> 00:07:58.700 this part of the lecture will be recorded. Of course only my image will be recorded in the 00:07:58.700 --> 00:08:00.950 classroom. So will you can also NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 86% (HØY) 00:08:00.950 --> 00:08:11.500 have the possibility to go back on canvas afterwards and watch again the discussion. Then in 00:08:11.500 --> 00:08:19.100 each lecture, we will have a second part. So we have the lectures are composed of two slots 45 00:08:19.100 --> 00:08:26.400 minutes. In the first half of the 45 minutes. I will answer your questions and elaborate your 00:08:26.400 --> 00:08:30.850 reflections. In the second half we will try to have NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 89% (HØY) 00:08:30.850 --> 00:08:40.100 practical activity. So, the idea is that, you know, talking about methodology is, of course, talking 00:08:40.100 --> 00:08:48.200 about methods, but what I want to achieve with this module is also that you become able to talk 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:58.400 methods. So in other words that you are able to have a grasp on what is actually the practice of 00:08:58.400 --> 00:09:00.950 methods, so that you become NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 89% (HØY) 00:09:00.950 --> 00:09:06.600 able to choose among a variety of possibilities. Because qualitative research is not just 00:09:06.600 --> 00:09:12.000 interviewing. As you probably have been told for a long time, but you will see that there are a 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:20.900 number of possibilities that can be adapted to your specific research questions and object of study. 00:09:20.900 --> 00:09:30.200 So, now I want to briefly mention the main text, the handbook. Basically have two kind of readings in 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:30.900 the pensum. NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 70% (MEDIUM) 00:09:30.900 --> 00:09:38.200 Some selected chapters of the handbook, called Handbook of Emergent Methods and some additional 00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:48.700 articles. By the way, during the course I will also provide you with some additional material. Kind 00:09:48.700 --> 00:09:57.000 of videos or further readings that, of course, you are free to watch and read if you are 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:00.849 interested in one particular method for instance. So how to read NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 91% (HØY) 00:10:00.849 --> 00:10:09.600 the handbook. As you may see the handbook of a Emergent Methods is not really new. So it has 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:18.100 been published a few years ago. And of course you may find some language kind of bit outdated or 00:10:18.100 --> 00:10:29.400 maybe the technologies that are mentioned can be like a bit, can sound kind of awkwardly old. NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 72% (MEDIUM) 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:40.900 Such as little videotaping, nobody's videotaping anymore today. However, what is very important is 00:10:40.900 --> 00:10:51.000 that the methods that are described in this handbook are still very relevant and actually 00:10:51.000 --> 00:11:00.400 they are still innovative in master courses like ours. So they are not really included in many 00:11:00.400 --> 00:11:00.849 syllabus. NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 83% (HØY) 00:11:00.849 --> 00:11:10.100 So you will find them can kind of surprising. Anyway, the other important aspect of this 00:11:10.100 --> 00:11:18.600 book is that it's somehow inviting the reader inviting, you students to be creative and innovative 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:26.700 with the method. So, a method is basically a way to find an answer to our curiosity and to our 00:11:26.700 --> 00:11:31.150 research questions. So the method in it self, NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 78% (HØY) 00:11:31.150 --> 00:11:41.750 invites us to develop the way to answer this question. Because our questions always evolve. So 00:11:41.750 --> 00:11:51.200 does the methods that we use. Well, how the handbook is structured. You have selected number of 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:58.900 chapters. Not so many dont worry, but each chapter is organized in the following case. There is an 00:11:58.900 --> 00:12:00.750 overview of the NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 84% (HØY) 00:12:00.750 --> 00:12:08.400 topic or the method. Then there is an historical part, explaining how, what is the history was 00:12:08.400 --> 00:12:14.200 this the region of that specific method and then the authors of the chapter, they present some 00:12:14.200 --> 00:12:21.100 interesting example of applications of the method. So, how to use the methods. We will complement 00:12:21.100 --> 00:12:27.900 this with some hands-on activities in the classroom. So we, you will actually try to use some 00:12:27.900 --> 00:12:30.849 methods, of course, not all of them because we have a limited time, NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 70% (MEDIUM) 00:12:30.849 --> 00:12:39.700 but we will try to have some fun doing this. So, as I said, for each chapter, I will 00:12:39.700 --> 00:12:49.200 provide a short video to guide you through the reading of the chapter and just stressing the 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:57.100 probably the most important concepts. But, of course, I really invite you to have a look at the rest 00:12:57.100 --> 00:13:00.900 of the chapter, also those that are not included in the NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 79% (HØY) 00:13:00.900 --> 00:13:09.100 pensum. I have to make a selection, of course, but please feel free to have a look at the other 00:13:09.100 --> 00:13:14.600 chapters. For instance there are several chapters chapters on ethnography, that you 00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:25.000 may find very very interesting. Now, let's go back to the classroom. As you may know, we 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:30.849 still are into a hybrid model because we never completely sure NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 88% (HØY) 00:13:30.849 --> 00:13:40.400 sure about what's going to happen in the fall. So we will have a limited class time and limited 00:13:40.400 --> 00:13:49.349 space in the classroom, and we will try to make the best out of it. So as I said you are 00:13:49.349 --> 00:13:57.100 required to read before hands and every time we meeting classroom. We will have a first half of the 00:13:57.100 --> 00:14:00.900 lecture that will be discussion, answer NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 86% (HØY) 00:14:00.900 --> 00:14:10.800 questions and making some reflections. And of course I will try to organize the the discussion, but 00:14:10.800 --> 00:14:19.800 please feel free to ask question and two to share your reflection. This is very 00:14:19.800 --> 00:14:27.500 important. And during the second half of the lecture we will try to be organized in small 00:14:27.500 --> 00:14:31.000 groups and make some group exercise NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 88% (HØY) 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:37.000 of the method of the day. There will be also some teaching assistants that will help in this 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:48.700 process. I hope that everything is clear. Of course always feel free to ask question. What I 00:14:48.700 --> 00:14:56.300 would like to emphasize is that the spirit of this course is to work together. So you have always to 00:14:56.300 --> 00:15:00.150 remember that science is a collective enterprise. NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 91% (HØY) 00:15:00.150 --> 00:15:09.300 Nobody learns alone. Nobody develops knowledge alone. So the the speed of this course is that we help 00:15:09.300 --> 00:15:17.100 each other, including you helping me, to understand things and to develop, especially to develop new 00:15:17.100 --> 00:15:27.350 ideas. Please remember that there are no stupid questions. Sometimes I can give stupid answers, but 00:15:27.350 --> 00:15:31.100 please feel free to ask and to share. NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 91% (HØY) 00:15:31.100 --> 00:15:40.050 And also, probably the last point I want to make clear, is that research is about curiosity. 00:15:40.050 --> 00:15:48.600 And what we are going to do is to learn how what's the best way to fulfill our curiosity. So, 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:58.000 please always stay curious and stay active. Okay, and I'll see you soon very soon in classroom. NOTE Treffsikkerhet: 91% (HØY) 00:15:58.000 --> 00:15:59.900 Bye.