I attended an educational session on teaching and learning styles today. During the session, we completed several assessments. I found myself regularly struggling with some of the choices - several of the assessments required ranking or choosing among alternatives. Unfortunately, or maybe interestingly, my choices were often between opposites: logical versus creative; intuitive versus reliance on facts. I kept thinking: sometimes I do do that....and other times I do the other that. I began to consider that through the years I have already made some compromises and adjustments to my natural learning style - to account for how information is presented and how others seem to perceive things. I like to get a view of the whole picture - sometimes - but other times I want to feel completely grounded in one step or stage before I move on. I found myself, over and over thinking: it depends. I was reading some information online about the original Star Trek television series (G. Roddenberry, producer) so the contrasting images of Spock - cool, calculating, logical, ordered and Kirk - passionate, intuitive, spontaneous - came to mind. Spock of course would be the quantitative guy while Kirk is a more likely qualitative type (I can imagine him doing ethnographic explorations of the reproductive practices of various species encountered during the "5 year mission"). So maybe it is the mixed methodologist inside me that makes it difficult to commit to some of the responses. Or maybe it is just my hatred of doing any surveys.
Drawing done on MacBook with a mouse on, as shown, an 'unregistered' version of Scribbles for Mac.
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AuthorI am Sheryl L. Chatfield, Ph.D, C.T.R.S. I am a member of the faculty in the College of Public Health at Kent State University. I also Co-coordinate the Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research and I am a member of the Design Innovation Team at Kent State. Archives
February 2024
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