Day 1 • Review of Course logistics

• Literature review development: develop the topics and title for the research projects using Card sort and graphic organisers

• Confirm and assign topics for the lit review

• Confirm presentations • Get a good overview of

the assignments

Research Topic – Resource Depletion/Eco-Sustainability

• what are the resource or climate change challenges for the future?

• what can we as individuals, communities and/or nations do to prevent climate change or resource collapse?

• what theories of change, of behaviour, of nature, of spirit, of power can make a difference in this area

Research Topic Te Punanga Haumaru Bully Banishing project

• How does ecosustainability play out in communities with few resources and relative poverty?

• How do we build community resilience and become ecosustainable (i.e. not increasing consumption and waste)?

• How do we address inequality when even our poorest communities may not be ecosustainable?

Te Punanga Haumaru Bully Banishing project • Teaching children and adults how to deflect/avoid

bullying• Creating an awareness of what constitutes bullying

and what ordinary citizens can do about it• Shifting the perception of the community away from

one of vulnerability and victimhood to one of energy and creativity with a zero tolerance of bullying

• Discovering the resources, including the ecological resources within the community and getting them shared and used

• Getting the community agencies and businesses to collaborate around anti-bullying messages, building community resilience and reducing inequality

Research Topic – Practicum students

• Self chosen topic• Working in

groups of two or three

• Research methods course used to prepare for the Research Practicum

Assessment tasks: Research Methods only Whole class group Resource Depletion/Eco-sustainability Research project

Weight Due date

Partial literature review: A written research essay covering an area of literature that is important to the development of a project

25% 28th of March

Presentation: A 5 minute presentation on one area of the research project from the literature review

15% 2rd April to 28th May

Method: Collect, input and transcribe data from the MPHS project

25% 2nd May

Analysis of results: A report thematically analysing an aspect of grouped data

35% 28th June

Assessment tasks: Research Practicum preparation

Weighting

Due date

Method : A written report on the method proposed for the research and an application to Ethics Committee

15% 5th of March/

22nd April

Literature review: A written research essay covering an introduction to the research hypothesis or question, a justification of the value of committing resources to the hypothesis/question, and a literature review

30% 8th April

Data Collection and transcription : Interviews, Focus groups, Questionnaires or case studies, etc

7th May

Assessment tasks: Research Practicum preparation

Weighting

Due date

Results analysis: Compiling a demographic profile, breaking data into themes, creating narratives, quantising themes, managing contexts, statistical analysis

24% 6th of June

Discussion, Conclusion and Abstract: Summarising, comparing results against literature, recommendations, etc

19% 27thJune

Presentation: A 20-25 minute presentation describing the project ands its outcomes

12% 27th

June

Topics and Titlesin small groups

Create a title for a research project that looks at • what are the resource or climate change challenges for

the future?• what can we as individuals, communities and/or

nations do to prevent climate change or resource collapse?

• what theories of change, of behaviour, of nature, of spirit, of power can make a difference in this area

Create a list of things you might have to explore for this project

Topics-Themes-Title Imagine that we live on a lake

Some earnest believable people say that the water level is going to rise 2 metres permanently and shatter

our way of life

All around the world. How do we react? What would we do to understand the possibilities of

the future and our part in them?

What are the

solutions?Can we change

and adapt to a new way of being?

If we can’t, why

not?

Cardsort“Cardsort is a generic name for any process that uses

statements written on cards and has participants sieve, cluster, or rank ideas or statements” (O’Reilly , 2008)

“Cardsorts are especially helpful with ethnic and minority groups. In today’s increasingly multi-cultural world where the norming of standardised psychometric instruments beyond Anglo-Saxon western culture lags behind, Cardsorts offer another distinct advantage. Interpretations are not dependent on predetermined norms…”(Stevens, 2006:2)

Dennis O’Reilly – consensus cardsort

whanau futures cardsort

Cardsort stage 1Form groups – 7-10 per groupEach individual writes their ideas (topic) on a

white ‘idea card’Write neatly one idea per card. If you have

more than one idea use another idea card – write at least 3 ideas

When you have finished writing all your ideas gather all the idea cards in your group together and shuffle them.

Cardsort stage 2• Distribute the shuffled idea cards equally amongst the

group• Cluster similar white idea cards into categories or

themes• Make sure that you all are in rough agreement

(consensus) with the categories created and the cards within each category – this may take some time and compromises will be needed. Categories with lots of idea cards may need to be broken into two or more categories. Idea cards could go into two categories

• Give a label to the category on a pink summary card and put this on top of the relevant pile

Create a title

Cardsort Stage 3• Each group states all their themes to the whole class.• Any theme that is ‘missing’ from your group gets

written down as a new theme, on a pink card (designate someone in your group to do this)

• Back to group work: each group distributes the pink theme cards equally amongst the group

• Cluster similar pink theme cards into no more than three or four categories

• Name these categories (on a blue card), and try to create a ‘title’ that links them to the idea of ‘sustainable communities’

Graphic organiser – mind map

Deconstructing our title

• Men’s movement – definition, participation, themes

• Direction – history, where’s it from?

• Development – where’s it going? Leaders, key ideas

• Aoteroa – NZ context, regions

What is a literature review?It defines the words in the title of your research projectIt gives a sufficient background and/or a history of the

topic so that the context of the research can be understood

It analyses the underlying ideas and theories that are suggested by the title

It describes the groups/populations that are most affected by the events and theories under examination

It analyses evidence from other research that supports or denies key theories related to the topic

Theme 1

Theme 1 Topic 1

Theme 1 Topic 2

Theme 1 Topics 1-4

Themes 1-5

All themes – all topics

Flexibility of Cardsort

Advantages• Adaptable • Inclusive process • Variety of ways to input • Open ended• Transportable• Cheap to run

Disadvantages• Takes time – about 2

hours• Groups tend to conform

to majority view• Depth of data

questionable

Accessibility of CardsortAdvantages Disadvantages• Helpful with ethnic and

minority groups - Cross cultural • Resonates with Maori• Useful method for hard to

reach communities • Enables engagement with

people who might otherwise be resistant to participation

• Lower literacy demands• Sensitive to community

symbols and voices

• Doesn’t capture group dynamics

• Not able to quantify how common a cards is in a cluster

Comfortability of CardsortAdvantages Disadvantages

• Participants feel at ease• Non-hierarchical• Mitigates personal

issues• Useful for conflict

resolution

• Views change over time and may shift

Effectiveness of CardsortAdvantages Disadvantages

• Good starting point• Fosters authority over

self• Promotes Puawaitanga

(study, strategic thinking)

• Fosters synergy• Results generally

exceed expectations

Next Week

• Morality and Connection • Do Moral and Carbon Footprint questionnaires

The Carbon Footprint questionnaire is a weblink on the Moral questionnaire. Sign in as an Australian. Later on, when asked where you live, say “Tasmania”.