The research proposal seems fairly straightforward. Since the summer course, I have been thinking about methods and procedures that will be reasonable to complete as part of my research. Now that I have been in with my students for two months or so I have an even better idea of what I can reasonably complete in the given amount of time that I have. The next step is to make sure it is all written down and makes sense to other people.
The structure that we are following for this assignment is just like all the papers that I read to make my own literature review. The title and abstract are super easy to do. I've done this before so it is not a problem at all! Most of the other parts are all up in my brain, just waiting to be typed out. I anticipate the expected results section to be the second most difficult behind the literature review section. The literature review took me FOREVER to write and I am so happy that it is done now. Sitting at a computer and doing hours and hours of research is certainly not my cup of tea. During my undergraduate experience, I got used to writing papers that just came out of my own head. I wrote about topics like existentialist anarchy and giving animals rights without doing much research at all. This is arguably more difficult that summarizing what other people have said, but it is what I'm used to and it's hard to switch gears. As far as the expected results go, I am not sure what I will come across when I survey students and staff next semester. From what I have heard from other adults, it seems like they have a negative perspective on the current discipline system at Miller. It seems that the people who are trained on restorative practices are all about it, but everyone else feels like there is no discipline in place. The students seem to be reacting in a positive manner to the restorative practices I have used in the classroom so far, but that is just my perception of their perception. That's why I want to survey them and see what they actually think! My goal for this week is to get a super solid research proposal FINISHED. I mean all the way finished. It has been very difficult to get everything done for these classes while figuring out what to do in all my classes, but I am going to do it anyways!
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Archives
November 2018
Categories |