SWP 538 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Afrocentrism
17 Sep 2018
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Increasingly important as governing agencies demand evidence that programs & practices are effective. Evidenced-based practice is practices whose efficacy is supported by evidence (research/ facts) Accumulation of knowledge that allows use to practice effectively and transparently. Used when little of nothing is known about a subject (cid:587)f nd out(cid:588) about top c. Driven by meaningful phenomenon: not about the numbers but about finding out meaning. Process helps researchers gain in-depth understanding from observations and/ interview. Creates relationships- between researchers and research power relationship politics. Explanatory attempts to explain relationship between entities: often referred to as variables) Post claim on what is truth but t ere"s no f nal trut . Dualism- researchers vs those being research: produce knowledge vs consume knowledge, question of power. Colonialism & imperialism qualitative research used to colonize people. Connected to issues of male & white-oriented-feminist-critical race.
