Framing Reflection #2<\/p>\n
Completing this past term in LBST 200 helped open my eyes to the multiple paradigms and facets of research. After taking a previous research class at Capilano U, I thought I had learned all there was to research and how to implement it in my academic career but I within the first week of LBST 200, I quickly realized otherwise. As I introduced in my Framing Reflection #1, I conducted a \u201cmock research project\u201d on First Nations youth and suicide, similar to that of my Mod 5\/ Mod 6 assignments. At the time of that project a few years ago, I found it to be quite a daunting task even though it was merely just a mock research project. All the assignments in LBST 200 really made me step out of my comfort zone and pushed me to a point of surprising myself as to how much I could accomplish. The assignment that stuck with me the most and made me learn quite a bit about myself and helped me find a new interest was Module 4 \u2013 Mining the past. In this module, I went back to the early 1900\u2019s and found the original owner of a rental property my family currently owns in the Lonsdale area. I took advantage of the NVMA which I have walked past many time in my years in high school in Lynn Valley but never knew what the building was and how much interesting information it held and how that information would help me in this specific class. I also never knew I would be interested in archival material and conducting research on the past and how it affects us today. I\u2019m sure the knowledge I learned this semester will stick with me and allow me to take on even more pressing research papers and projects in the future. I never knew, that the research class I took in previous years at Cap would be a stepping stone to this class and I\u2019m sure LBST 200 will continue bridging difference concepts and classes together. All in all, this class not only pushed me to do more than I thought possible, it also introduced great peers and professors who I am excited to work with in the coming years while completing the program.<\/p>\n
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Framing Reflection #1<\/p>\n
As an emerging researcher trying to identify their most identifiable paradigm and the paradigm they favour most, one must participate or immerse themselves in the majority, if not all the paradigms. While in the Community Development and Social Change program here at Capilano University, I participated in a Community-Based Research course. In this course, I researched and planned a mock research project centred around First Nations youth and suicide. In this project, I questioned the extent to which youth programs decreased the susceptibility of Aboriginal\/ First Nations youth to suicide. In order to gather the initial information for the written aspect of my project, I looked at peer-reviewed papers, and other research prose from those who conducted open-ended interviews, and focus groups within the interpretive paradigm. Upon reading James Scotland\u2019s article, \u201cExploring the Philosophical Underpinnings of Research: Relating Ontology and Epistemology to the Methodology and Methods of the Scientific, Interpretive, and Critical Research Paradigms\u201d, I am pleased I used the paradigm I chose back then.<\/p>\n
If I were to follow-through with the mock research project proposed, I would hold one-on-one interviews to gather the initial, very personal information, and later for those who feel comfortable sharing their experiences, I would hold focus groups. I identify mostly with the interpretive paradigm because of its view that \u201creality is subjective and differs from person to person\u201d (Guba & Lincoln, 1994, p. 110). Ergo, the interpretive paradigm can be used in majority of research cases alongside the scientific paradigm especially in this specific case where psychology, science and quantitative information is necessary to come to a conclusion.<\/p>\n
This brings me to my last point where I find I am sometimes stuck at a crossroad. Comparable to almost everything in life, moderation is key and essentially fundamental. If we all live thinking on a one-track mind, there would be no room for growth or learning. As much as I agree and identify with the interpretive paradigm, I believe there are instances where the scientific paradigm compliments the others very well and provides an ontological position of positivism. The world would not be what it is without the scientific paradigm or positivism and that is why in their own way, along with the interpretive and the critical paradigm, they are necessary in our world and in today\u2019s day and age.<\/p>\n
At the end of it all, I would stick with the interpretive paradigm by virtue of life being different for each person walking this earth. \u201cWe need to remind ourselves here that it is human beings who have constructed it as a tree, given it the name, and attributed to it the associations we make with trees.\u201d This being said, everyone sees things differently, lives different lives and interacts individually.<\/p>\n
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