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Week 2
Charting the Research Journey
 
Preparations
 1. Read: Richard Slimbach, “Real World Research” 
2. Read: Doing Development Research (Ch.  5)
3. Read: Doing Research in the Real World (Ch. 3)
Review the Concept of a Research Proposal.  This will develop from your Project Plan.  Your aim is in 10 weeks to have this fully developed so you can begin your research in earnest.

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Online Discussion

 

 

 

 

 

 
Select Forums from the Course Links navigation menu and then continue with last weeks topic: Planning Slum-based Participatory Research.
  • Presentations by students of two readings.
  • Update on any breakthroughs with partner organizations
  • Review the Project Plan.
  • Students create a Shared GoogleDoc while discussing  steps in project plan.  Convert into a Gannt chart.
  • Review research topic definition, and how it relates to what the partnering organization wants you to do.  How much is this their idea? How do you narrow it down to simple variables? how do you go about getting the literature so you can build this from theories? What style of research approach might work best?
Assignments
Go to Assignments in the Course Links menu and select Project 1.
  • This week fill in all you can on the project plan.
  • By now you should also have started your annotated reading log with 7-10 readings.
  • Start on the Shared Google Doc