Brett Healey

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How do you ask interview questions to children who partake in a classroom intervention study?

I am trialling an intervention in some classrooms and I want to interview children to find out what the intervention was like from their perspective. Are there any examples of interview protocols...

01 January 2020 6,399 3 View

Does teaching concepts via metaphor shape the learner's thought?

If a subject is introduced to a new abstract concept by way of metaphor, how likely will it be that their thought is shaped by the conceptual metaphor? For example: "Think of the concept of...

09 September 2018 2,462 0 View

What theories exist on how people conceptualise things (cognitively or otherwise)?

I want to research the way children conceptualise writing “skills” (eg: paragraphs, personification etc.). I am aware of phenomenography as the conceptualisation of experience, but I am also...

05 May 2018 6,558 3 View

How important is knowing your theoretical framework before designing a study?

I’d like to write a PhD research proposal. I have a clear plan for a mixed methods study, but do not yet have a clear theoretical framework guiding it. Would it be wise to focus in on the theory...

04 April 2018 1,689 2 View

How do you measure the imaginability of writing?

What instruments exist to measure the imaginability of a piece of writing from a semiotic perspective? I‘m aware of one that measures the ratio of concrete vs abstract nouns/verbs, but I’m...

10 October 2017 9,080 6 View

How do you measure the imaginability of writing?

Are there any instruments for measuring the imaginability of a piece of writing from a semiotic/linguistic perspective? I’m aware of a quantitative measurement of word-by-word ratio of concrete...

10 October 2017 8,746 5 View

What quantitative instruments exist for analysing children's writing?

I am interested in possibly researching one of the following areas of children's writing: -Figurative language / imagery -Nominalisation -Sentence structure -Description / detail Are there any...

02 February 2017 8,938 6 View

What qualitative instruments exist for analysing children's writing?

I am interested in possibly analysing children's use of one or more of: -Self expression -General ideation -Creativity -Critical thinking skills or problem solving through writing -Writing process...

02 February 2017 5,566 0 View

Is any combination of phenomenological positionality permitted?

The three tensions of phenomenology appear to be: - description vs interpretation - reduction (bracketing) vs reflexivity - general (essence) vs particular...

01 January 1970 8,644 2 View