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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:07:13 +1100
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- From: helenm@DEAKIN.EDU.AU
- Subject: Heuristic Inquiry
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- Hello! I have just joined the network today and I'm sorry if my particular
- inquiry has been dealt with before, but here goes...
- I'm doing a Ph.D. and have elected to work with the heuristic inquiry method.
- It's really interesting. The only problem is that despite lots of literature
- searches I have not been able to find any really critically evaluative
- literature about this type of inquiry. I found a few places where it is
- mentioned in articles and in one book on qualitative methods, but so far not
- the sort of stuff that can either help me with the actual implementation of my
- study, or satisfy my supervisors that I am sufficiently in tune with issues
- to do with its validity and so forth.
- Heuristic inquiry was developed by Clark Moustakas and I have all his stuff
- available.. His own work shows quite a lot about how he pursued his research,
- and I am somewhat reassured by the apparent openness of this sort of work to
- idiosyncratic approaches! But I'd dearly love to talk to someone who has
- either successfully completed a Ph.D. using heuristic inquiry, or someone who
- is in the middle of such a job and proceeding comfortably, or someone who
- might direct me to the literature I so far cannot find, where heuristic
- inquiry is discussed at length in a scholarly way.
- I checked Dissertation Abstracts of course and found a few dissertations based
- on this method, but nearly all of them are in psychology, and my field is
- education. Have asked our library to order some of the dissertations in the
- hope I might find in them some sort of guidance on how this stuff works out in
- practice, but it will be some months before they become available. Meantime,I
- am into my data collection!
- Hope to hear from someone soon! Helen Modra
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