Working in the Methodological "Outfield": The Case of Bourdieu and Occupational Therapy

Autor/inn/en	Watson, Jo; Grenfell, Michael
Titel	Working in the Methodological "Outfield": The Case of Bourdieu and Occupational Therapy
Quelle	In: International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 39 (2016) 2, S.151-169 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1743-727X
DOI	10.1080/1743727X.2014.980802
Schlagwörter	Occupational Therapy; Allied Health Occupations Education; Nontraditional Students; Higher Education; Research Methodology; Educational Research; Social Theories; Epistemology; Socioeconomic Background; Student Experience; Outcomes of Education; Data Analysis; Comparative Analysis; Ethnography; College Students; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Beschäftigungstherapie; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Gesellschaftstheorie; Erkenntnistheorie; Sozioökonomische Lage; Studienerfahrung; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Auswertung; Ethnografie; Collegestudent; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	The article reports on a study of methodological innovation involving occupational therapy (OT) students in higher education (HE). It is based on an original project which examined the experiences and outcomes of non-traditional entrants to pre-registration OT education. A feature of the original project was the application of the epistemological and methodological approach of the French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu, most noticeably in exploring the way that social back ground ("habitus") interacted with the educational ("field") context in terms of experience and educational outcome. Bourdieu used a ranged of techniques--both qualitative and quantitative--in collecting and analysing data. In particular, he used multiple correspondence analysis (MCA), a type of geometric data analysis recognized as a powerful tool enabling the representation of social space and the situating of individuals within it with respect to a number of variables. The article considers methodological principles in comparing ethnographic, traditional statistics and MCA. We show how the original data were reanalysed according to MCA. The article compares the original analyses and findings with those based on MCA in order to explore its strength over the previous approach and the potential it has to cast light on various issues in HE. (As Provided).
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