Second Week Course Reflection         

                

            On 21 Tuesday 2014, the productive and valuable discussions were made in the class. I was so happy to be part of this course and class. In this personal reflection, I will try to underline two points that I did not share my friends and instructor, Jessica. I felt satisfied with starting the some questions that were related with the definition of qualitative and methodologies. Those questions were helpful and great to go further about the qualitative inquiry and methodologies. In spite of the fact that these were introductory start, my mind has been occupied some related concepts and questions about the digital tool and qualitative inquiry. I am going to share and discuss them into two paragraph.

            My first question is about how and to what extend the transferability and generalizability have been changed because of the advent of technology in inquiry? This question is certainly important for me. The nature of data, data collection, coding, write-up have been changed a lot since internet, computer based analysis have been changed too. I could not explain their effect on the truth claims’ transferability and generalizability in terms of conducting research. I can make more apparent and comprehensive my point by claiming that all relations and experiences have been changed by new digital area. For example, we overcome the limits of geographical differences to make interview, to send survey etc. The nature of inquiry become more collaborative, universal and doable. I am not sure about the results of them whether the claims become universal, or not?

            The second concern was about the relations between ‘know-that’ and ‘know-how’. During the course, we roughly look at the questions types such as ‘why’ and ‘how’. I know that there are many types of questions which are needed to be answered and evaluated. I believe that empirical classification can be made in term of conditions and situations, not according to questions. As I said in the class, we should think about ‘familiarity’ as epistemological domain which can be defined as ‘know-that’ and the ‘accessibility’ and ‘availability’ which can be defined as ‘know-how’.