Research analysis

For this assignment, you should select a dissertation or research study (there are several of

those in the library) and, provide a critique of its methodology. Conduct a critical conversation

withthe politics of knowledge production in that dissertation: what is the dissertation about?

How did the researcher go about producing and making claims to knowledge?

What methods did the researcher use?

Do you believe those methods were conducive to answer the study's particular questions

and make its particular claims to knowledge and knowing? If so, how? If not, why?

To what degree do you believe the methods used in this study

matched/enhanced/contradicted the epistemological understandings underlying the topic

being studied (in other words, did the study produce a methodology or merely a set of

methods)?

What do you believe are some of the methodological strengths of this study (and why do

you believe that?)?

What do you believe are some of the methodological weaknesses of this study (and why

do you believe that?)?

What did you learn from this critique about conducting qualitative about conducting

qualitative research?

How might this knowledge direct you in thinking about your own study?

What are some of the notes absences and silences in this study?

On what is this study's methodology silent? Why? With what consequences?

How, if at all, does this study deal with the ethical issues and those pertaining to power?