Hello all,
I am starting a research effort about epistemological viewpoints present in a certain corpus of doctoral dissertations, most of them on the field of education. The corpus is related to the Finnish system of Universities of Applied Sciences (or polytechnics, in Finnish "ammattikorkeakoulu").
A significant part of this corpus is based on qualitative research implemented by using combinations of phenomenography and content analysis approaches. Thus my goal is to discuss the possibilities of synthesis especially for this part of my data. Other methodological / theoretical sets of examples will probably appear.
The process will contain the following tentative steps, although it will be iterative in nature:
1) building a systematic bibliography, focused on methodologies, frames of references and the applications as well as limitations of the results
2) reviews of epistemological approaches, frameworks and issues present, summaries of related (pedagogical) applications reported
3) metasyntheses related to used theoretical and methodological frameworks (like phenomenography and content analysis mentioned above)
4) conclusions, experiences and recommendations.
The management of the process and maintaining the quality probably will raise questions and cause problems. The corpus contains around 150 monographs. In Finland the doctoral dissertations are usually published in universities' monograph series, although can be based on papers published in refereed journals. Have you done research relevant to this kind of effort? Would you like to share your experiences? I have of course done and will be doing literature reviews for my proposal, so I am not just asking for references, although they are also welcome.
Best regards,
Juha
Juha Kamarainen,
In my doctoral thesis, defended in Brazil, I did an epistemological analysis of 20 years in theses and dissertations of the Psychology course of my institution. If you are interested in this study, please contact me, as our meta-analysis covered more parameters. We also created a meta methodology of epistemological analysis inspired by Michael Foucault's archaeology of knowledge. I think this work can help you, the abstract is in the RG.
Dear Denise Bacellar- Nunes ,
Many thanks for your answer! It is evidently relevant for my project.
It will be a pleasure to take a closer view of it.
Best regards,
Juha
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