Topic outline
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TTU Syllabus
Semester one:
- L1: What is research? Objectives of research. (1 session)
- L2: Characteristics of research. Qualities of researchers. (1 session)
- L3: Ways of knowing. (1 or 2 sessions)
- Intuition
- Tenacity
- Common sense
- Expert authority
- Sensory perception
- Reasoning/ logic
- L4: Critical thinking (1 or 2 sessions)
- Higher order thinking skills / lower order thinking skills
- The distinction between fact and opinion
- Scepticism as a major component of CT
- L5: Philosophies (paradigms) of research: positivism vs Interpretivism (1 session)
Approaches to research: qualitative VS quantitative
- L6: The scientific method (1 or 2 sessions)
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