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Rhapsodic inquiry and the methodological imaginal

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posted on 2012-01-01, 00:00 authored by Gary LevyGary Levy
This paper reflects on, and examines some issues sidelined during the writing of a doctoral dissertation that was completed at the end of 2011. The study investigated the potential of the mobile phone as a pedagogic tool in a senior secondary technical school. While the methods employed for data collection and analysis were conventional and uncontentious, a certain boldness and imaginative engagement with the empirical findings was deemed necessary in order generate a thesis that was both sufficiently substantial and original. However, an underlying tension operated wherein fundamentally philosophical impulses of the researcher had to be balanced against simultaneously present institutional expectations and practical imperatives. In particular, some key remarks of Heidegger concerning technology and thinking, vied for attention and prominence within the research project agenda. An articulation and elaboration of this underlying tension between the philosophical and the practical only became possible after the work was completed. The return and manifestation of these marginalised and latent issues are here given closer attention.

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Journal

Reconceptualizing educational research methodology

Volume

3

Pagination

1-16

Location

Oslo, Norway

ISSN

1892-042X

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal, C Journal article

Copyright notice

2012, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences

Issue

1

Publisher

Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences

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