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can you say why? Read Angela Brew's book! "The Nature of Research, Inquiry in Academic Contexts" 2001 Jan Coker C3-10 Underdale Campus University of South Australia +61 8 8302 6919 "There is no way to peace, peace is the way" Gandhi -----Original Message----- From: Norm Sheehan [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, 17 September 2003 3:47 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: False consciousness and reflection-based PhD research Hi Terry You said...anything to do with sense of self, ego, feelings, self perception of cognition, confidence and certainty is unreliable... I have doubt about these issues because it seems to me that there is an enormous amount of myth building and self-deception at the core of this dilemma. This is evident to me through the manner that some social domains prompt people engaged within certain research paradigms to come to perceive and then believe that they and their work are immune from these essentially human attributes...and then propose that their immunity from humanity fallibility is an asset. I want to make two comments on this now 1. No methodology is or can ever be free from the multiplex of human errors 2. The elimination of the human condition from research is dangerous because it produces an inhuman science I will return to this a bit later but I hope my comments draw some responses Norm At 06:39 AM 16/09/03 +0000, Terence Love wrote: >Hello, > >Wondering. Am I missing something? In the circles I've hung out around over the last 30 years its widely accepted that self deception/ false consciousness is common place at least in terms of the lack of reliability of individuals' self reports about their experiences, perceptions, analyses, reasoning, attitudes, motivation (and just about anything else). In other words, anything to do with sense of self, ego, feelings, self perception of cognition, confidence and certainty is unreliable. It appears as best I can see that this everyday stuff is serious for design research becasue it presents a critical validity problem for some forms of doctoral study. I'm puzzled it doesn't seem to be taken seriously in design education - particularly in doctoral research where it is potentially disasterous for the success for any doctoral candidate's thesis that depends on self reporting or reflection. > >I asked some weeks ago if anyone on the list had a solution. I'm interested in finding a reuseable strategy that enables reflection-based doctoral research to stand the conmventional critiques associated with self reporting. So far, I have had one reply from a student and a reply from the manager of a website that focuses on reflective practice.. I'd be very much interested in the approaches used by other doctoral supervisors in advising candidates involved with reflection-based research or research that depends on the self reporting of internal states or reasoning - particularly where the study is aimed to demonstrate research competence for a doctoral award. Please feel free to email me off-list > >Best wishes,, > >Terry > >=== >Dr. Terence Love >Dept of Design >Faculty of BEAD >Curtin University >+61 (0)8 9266 4018 >[log in to unmask] >=== > [log in to unmask] Norman Sheehan Lecturer Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit University of Queensland Brisbane Old 4072 Australia