{"id":137,"date":"2011-02-21T21:12:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T04:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/?p=137"},"modified":"2011-02-21T21:14:39","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T04:14:39","slug":"agonizing-over-researchable-questions-and-justification-of-methodology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Agonizing over researchable questions and justification of methodology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It feels as if I have been doing a lot of nothing lately. But, in retrospect ideas have been percolating in my head. If only the ideas would bubble faster than the drip of my old coffee pot.<\/p>\n<p>I have spent several days now considering, reconsidering, writing and rewriting three basic questions upon which my PhD thesis will form. I have come to a point where I am relatively happy with the questions&#8212;not doubting for an instant that I will continue tweaking them.<\/p>\n<p>So, onto a justification for using a qualitative approach, specifically a phenomenographic approach. I just wrote two sentences in the last 1\/2 hour. I am relatively happy with these sentences. Alas, I had to laugh when I heard myself mutter, &#8220;Gosh. That was hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Back to the salt mine . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It feels as if I have been doing a lot of nothing lately. But, in retrospect ideas have been percolating in my head. If only the ideas would bubble faster than the drip of my old coffee pot. I have spent several days now considering, reconsidering, writing and rewriting three basic questions upon which my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phd-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}