Planning for Effective Researching Experiences

Dr Christine Redman

• Connect to some of the previous days thinking,• Identify Commonality in efforts made to

make sense of moments,• Undertaken via observation, interview,

discussion, video capture and or re-description

• As reflections designed to contribute to perhaps revelations, renewal or reassurance related to effective learning.

Brian explained …

The field as the area of study

Relationships 4 productive outcomes

Making sense of complex social cultural, social and intellectual environments is the challenging…

Background

• Grand theories to inform and improve our research quality.

• Positioning theory enables researchers to better understand the social realm.

• What people do, … think they can do, … are permitted or forbidden to do.• Review two tools… and introduce another …

Big Ideas in PT

permitted or forbidden to do

Dentists

Personal Meaning-Making Map

• Individuals have made sense of their world, interpreted it in specific ways, sense what is important to them and et al.

• Personal Meaning Making Maps provide opportunities for participants to voice their ‘meaning-making’ of events, experiences and objects.

• Members of communities have a sense of their world - interpret it in specific ways -sense of what is important to them and et al.

• Collaborative Interactive Discussions (CIDs) provide a useful way for people to share their thinking, negotiate meaning and locate beliefs and values.

Big Ideas in PT

• A primary social reality is speech acts,• Secondary social realities are realised in

artifacts, institutions, and culture,• Searle (1995) referenced deontic speech

acts; those institutional behaviours recognised as being aligned to sets of obligations.

• Speech acts – contextual /powerful/ less

Same words - Different outcome

Harré & van Langenhove

• Language is performative (Searle),• Speech acts may seek to be

illocutionary (Austin),• As perlocutionary – evident in outcomes.• Illocutionary – may / not be influence

others actions…• Speech acts – weak / strong /

intentional /unintentional (Harré)

Say and Do

Speech Acts• May impose/carry status functions, may

increase the power of declarations.

• The relationship status of speakers increases / decreases the potential of their power.

• Rights, duties and obligations of listeners are influenced by two dimensions.

Two dimensionsHarré – rights, duties and sense of obligations are influenced by 1) Location in space/time2) Moral orders

Moral orders are invisible, latent, not always in use, understood, nested and may be conflicting… influential /informing.• Often not reflected on, unarticulated and or

tacit / unchallenged …

Moral orders evident in

• Rights & Duties - created, sustained and dissolved in speech acts and actions,

• People’s agency arises from power perceived in moral fields, evident in their intentional acts …

• Aligned to any number of orders - like institutional, legal, cultural, conversational and or personal.

• Social worlds are webs of conversations.

• Meaning is developed, shared, co-constructed in conversations and actions,

• In locations - in time - aligned (or not) with socially reified beliefs and practices.

• So PMMs and CIDs give rise to voice – and so can drawings…

Values and beliefs

• Beliefs arise and form, constantly being affirmed and modified, in their ‘say and do’ informing or challenging them.

• ‘Say and do’ informs perceptions, and tacitly and explicitly shapes beliefs, and ultimately what will be valued (values/beliefs).

• A key goal - making visible for reflection and consideration the ‘meaning’ people have made, and what they value and believe.

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