A New Baby
Walking through in the dark
Neutral, comfort, and warm
Nothing is good and nothing is bad
Everything is sameness
My surroundings are the same
Climate, pattern, and texture
There is no friction, no sensation
I can see but there is nothing interesting
I felt nothing from within myself
Living in isolated environment
Untouched and untouchable
I want to outgrowing, [...]
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Posted in Kuliah, Research Method on April 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Ethics concern with all the human interaction, including human research (Australian Vice-Chancellor’s committee, 2007). Educational research is a part of human research which has potential ethical problems. Therefore, “Each stage in the research sequence may be a potential source of ethical problems (Cohen, et.al, 2000, p.49). There are “three primary ethical principles: (1)autonomy and self-determination, [...]
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There are three assumptions in research: epistemological, ontological, and methodological. Epistemological refers to the ways to acquire the knowledge (Alan Bryman, 2001). The knowledge those are acceptable in certain paradigms. For example, epistemological in the normative paradigm is how the social world can investigate as natural science. Hypotheses have to test by empirical approaches. The [...]
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Posted in Kuliah, Research Method on April 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The nature of educational research is analogous with the nature of research itself, which is systematic, reliable and valid to find the “truth”, investigates knowledge, and solves problems (William Wiersma, 1991). Moreover, educational research process involves steps to collect the information in order to investigate problems and knowledge. However, the educational research is more [...]
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There are three research paradigms in educational research: normative, interpretive, and critical theory. Each of those paradigms has advantages and limitation. The normative paradigm is one paradigm, which tends to control the research condition such as human behaviours through scientific methods (Douglas,1973). Because it is controlled, normative paradigm tends to generalize the findings with one truth. The advantage is easy to be objective in normative research because it is very structured and clear
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