Monday 4 June 2012

Alarm bells are ringing: research design, research paradigm

I think I got excited pretty quickly.  My proposal has been accepted; now my problems have just piled up.  If you have no idea what I am whinning about, go back to the previous post.  There I outlined my arguments regarding what I am supposed to do.  I am now supposed to refine my research design, and clarify the paradigm.  What! This invoked a deja vu feeling - when a prospective supervisor asked me a couple of questions, which set me off to temporarily abandon my PhD dreams to pursue this course.  I am not abonding anything; no, not this time?  I can slap myself for not paying attention during class; but then I can justify to myself that I really could not because I was obsessing about the research question.

In the next week, I shall be reading on research paradigms and trying to locate the most relevant for my study.  If you anyone stumbles upon this blog, and has a good idea of which paradigm will work best, please post a comment. This shall give you an idea of what I want to do My research proposal.  If you are lazy to read it all, the last section just about cover all my ramblings.