Personal Worldview
Order Instructions:
Day 5 respond to two of your colleagues’ postings, giving priority to those that have fewer than two responses so far. In your responses, be sure to address the following:
•Address the content of each colleague’s statement, as well as his or her alignment to the worldview types noted in the course text.
•Pose a follow-up question to each colleague for further Discussion.
•Link each colleague’s posting to other colleagues’ postings or to other course materials and concepts, where appropriate and relevant.
•Include proper APA citations for the course text, readings, and any external sources consulted in the preparation of your posting.
Colleague #1 ( Simon)
My personal worldview and research mindset
Research is the testing of a theory about something with the hope that such theory can be confirmed. Theory can also emerge from data that has been collected particularly when we are not beginning with constructs. Research helps in providing the needed information to avoid guesswork. Guess work brings about a lot of inaccuracies, which are avoided once a good piece of research work is done on a provided problem statement. The approach in the research design could be qualitative, quantitative or a combination of the two. In my own worldview opinion, a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches is a better option to be able to gain close to accurate information. In choosing the combination approach, the key purpose or objective is to come up with procedures that aid in translating the theoretical aspects into practice (Creswell, 2009, p.5). The four worldviews or paradigms of Postpositivism, Constructivism, Advocacy/participatory and Pragmatism are aimed at providing a broad understanding from which one can chose a worldview of their choice or a combination of the above as well.
The worldview research approach I prefer is that which encourages more open-ended questioning as the researcher listens carefully to what people say or do in their life settings in this case referred to as social constructivism (Creswell, 2009, p.8). Qualitative research being alluded to here is exploratory and used when the researcher does not know the important variables to examine. My background affects the way I look at research with a search for the truth that works using mixed methods research for better problem understanding. Of course it has to be noted that the research problem or issue being studied determines the choice of the research design. My personal experience is that of making up close observation that is best realized through the qualitative approach.
Qualitative approaches that I have narrowed down to and that I prefer in my worldview, give room for being innovative, creative and encourage critical thinking as well as being open minded with a passion that leads to a study of a lot of literature while paying attention to detail. In the video, it was suggested as well that one begins qualitative to develop a phenomenon, develop some hypotheses about that phenomenon from a qualitative work that can later be tested quantitatively. Regardless of whether qualitative or quantitative method is used, it should be noted that research is an engaging and tedious process, which calls for good planning, being methodical, designing and being one’s own skeptic. A character of humility is helpful to give room for others to criticize my work.
References:
American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
Creswell, J. W. (2009). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2008). Theory. Baltimore: Executive Producer.
Colleaque #2 ( kevin)
Personal Worldview
I am a serial entrepreneur striving to break out of the job class into the business class of society through innovative, disruptive technology commercialization. Through God’s grace, I have trained in multiple industries from software, photography, and transportation to arrive at a skill set capable of handling the responsibility of leadership over employee’s lives and families. The doctoral program will complete my educational background and bring the recognition necessary to secure the quality management staff and knowledgeable funding stream for a successful startup corporation.
My worldview closely resembles the postpositivist worldview, due to my search for knowledge through trail and error methods of accepting and rejecting a hypothesis. In addition, I strongly rely on scientific data and evidence to shape a refinement to the original hypothesis, but can see an intuitive leap through the raw data, which is where my idealism side manifests. Critical realism is my true worldview, which sees tendencies and searches for the underlying general cause to the phenomenon, rather than an observable positivist solution (Bisman, 2010). Many answers are unobservable, but still hold firm in the face of challenging arguments and I seek to add to the knowledge using this research method.
Reference
Bisman, J. (2010). Postpositivism and accounting research: A (personal) primer on critical realism. Australasian Accounting Business & Finance Journal, 4(4), 3-25
***** please answer each colleague individually along with 2 references each !!!!!
SAMPLE ANSWER
Personal Worldview
Colleague #1 Simon
It is good that you understand what research is and the purpose it serves. In addition to this, you need to be aware that research not only confirms theories, but also enables us to come up with new ones, adjust or accept existing theories, or nullify the theory altogether (Merrian, 2009). We also avoid guess work about what we are researching on because research uses scientific principles to come up with reliable conclusions in all fields. It is through research, you should be aware, that discoveries are made and unsolved problems find answers. Being conversant with the various research designs is useful if you are to select the most appropriate one for your kind of study. Apart from the three approaches you have mentioned, you should also be aware of advocacy/participatory research, whose main goal is to bring a positive impact upon the life of the research subject (Creswell, 2009 ). Your choice of a combination of quantitative and qualitative approach, also called pragmatic approach, is appropriate since it is more flexible since you may apply the techniques that are used in both qualitative and quantitative research methods. The mixed method approach to research is also most ideal because it appreciates the facts that each method has its own limitations, and so employing both methods somehow neutralizes the likely biases. It also has the benefit of triangulation, which allows for the use of data from various sources. Worldviews are important and helps in appropriately selecting the type of research design. Social constructivism, as a world view, regards human being as living in different social realities and researcher’s goal in this case is to gain an understanding about what is being researched, as opposed to making predictions (Neuman, 200). The most preferred method of research by most social constructivists are qualitative methods, but to avoid bias because of its subjective nature and inability of generalization of results, mixed method increases research credibility. There are several questions few questions though that you need address. What research approach would you use to ensure accuracy and that you conclusions are not biased? How would you know that your theories are accurate?
Colleague #2 Kevin
Positivism worldview relies heavily on scientific evidences and this is especially suitable for you. Positivists view the world realistically and apply a great deal of science in testing of hypothesis. Your real world view is, however, critical realism, which is a pragmatic approach. Post positivists require that you carefully observe and measure objectively the reality existing in the environment (Silverman, 2010). The most appropriate research design in this case is quantitative research, since it is best suitable for your worldview preference. There is however more freedom of using other research techniques as you may prefer, as long as you meet your intentions. The data you collect here also needs to be subjected to statistical analysis. Unlike social constructivism, critical realism possesses explicit values, which are very precise. You need to know that you need to have a hypothesis, and not necessarily one hypothesis, but several of them can be used, and you need to establish their relationships through examining the variables, since your research relies on quantitative research method (Borg, 2004). Some questions worth considering here include what data collection method would you use for your research? What reasons would you have for your preferred data collection method? And finally, what types of questions would you include in your questionnaire?
References
Borg. B.L. (2004) Qualitative Research Methods.Boston: Pearson.
Creswell, J. W. (2009). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Merriam, S.B. (2009). Qualitative research: A guide to design and implementation. San Francisco: John Wiley and Sons.
Neuman, W. L. (2000). Social research methods: Qualitative and quantitative approaches (4th ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
Silverman, D. (2010). Doing qualitative research (3 ed.): Sage.
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