Developmental State: A Theoretical and Methodological Critique

Collaborative Information Seeking: A Theoretical and Methodological Critique

This paper is intended to provide an informal assessment of the theoretical foundations and methodological applications that have been used to study collaborative information seeking. The review of previous studies on collaborative information seeking reveals that most studies have been predominantly descriptive and exploratory in nature, and little has been based on existing conceptual or theo...

Selective Associations: a Methodological Critique

Concept empiricism: a methodological critique.

Thanks to Barsalou's, Damasio's, Glenberg's, Prinz' and others' work, neo-empiricism is gaining a deserved recognition in the psychology and philosophy of concepts. I argue, however, that neo-empiricists have underestimated the difficulty of providing evidence against the amodal approach to concepts and higher cognition. I highlight three key problems: the difficulty of sorting out amodal predi...

a methodological and theoretical analysis and critique of the educational fundamental transformative documents of islamic republic of iran

the aim of this study is to analysis and identify the methodological, conceptual and structural approaches to the fundamental transformative documents of iranian general education system. to achieve this goal, a thematic method with a qualitative analysis approach was used, in order to gather the data and identify themes, theoretical foundations of transformation document, fundamental document ...

Theoretical and methodological reflections

As preceding chapters have highlighted, many examples exist of the varying ways in which Participatory Action Researchers work closely with groups to identify needs, plan action research projects, consult and then strive collectively to ‘action’ their findings. The three of us are all involved to varying degrees in such participatory activities, we would define ourselves not as just as action r...