HLTB15H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Paradigm Shift
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Inquiry: asking questions: must be based in evidence on a set of universal rules. Purpose of health research is to produce insights. Must find gaps within research to make it more well rounded. Research is contingent on: context: location, object, why, why, so what, frameworks of methodologies make it interesting, look at change in context for new impact and dimension. How they inform your worldview and how they affect you to do your research: ie methods. Think about knowledge and understanding of the word: epistemological assumptions, ontological. Paradigm shift: when we change how we think in a big way. Parts of a paradigm: ontology, form and nature of reality, epistemology, how we come to know things about the world, methodology, principle, and approaches to how were going to do research, methods, tools of data collection. Ontological assumption: 1 reality which is independent and universal, v black and white, knowledge must be scientifically testable.
