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Dear students, welcome to the course of methodology for the master program in special Needs
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education. My name is Luca Tateo and I will be the teacher of the qualitative research module. I'm
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very happy to be here with you and I will give you a short introduction to this module. Today
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I'll talk about the structure of the course, the kind of activities that we will carry on and how
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to deal with the material with readings and the tasks that you will find available on Canvas. So let
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me start by briefly introducing myself. I am professor of theory epistemology and methodology of
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qualitative research at the
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Institute for special needs education, but I have a background in cultural psychology. Actually,
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when I designed this course, this module, I try to think about what could be the needs of the
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special needs students. And what I decided to do is to give you
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an overview of the range and the possibilities that qualitative methods offer to those
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that want to do research, but also to those who want to work in the fields of
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education, in the field of rehabilitation or in the field of social work. So, let me start by
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briefly explaining you how the course
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structure will be. First of all, we will have unfortunately, we will have only a few meetings,
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few lectures. So for me it will be kind of hard task to give you an idea of the enormous
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possibilities that the qualitative research provides to develop new knowledge.
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So we will have basically seven encounters, in which we will deal with the how to design and how to
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conceive a qualitative research. Then we will deal with the main families of methods like
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observation, interview,
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visual methods, performative methods and finally, we will try to understand how to analyze and how
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to present the analysis and the results of our study. Especially in view of the
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preparation of a master thesis, for those who will choose to use qualitative methods in an empirical
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research.
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For each topic there will be also some specific reedings. I will come right now to this. So how the
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didactic materials are structured. So for each of the seven topics that we will touch during the
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course, you will find some materials on canvas and mainly you will find a short video
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introduction, as the one you're watching right now, for each of the topics and for the readings
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that are associated to each topic. Then you will find some readings of the pensum, associated to each
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topic and you are required to read the materials, the texts, beforehand. So, before we actually
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meet
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for the lecture. So for each of the topics once we have read the materials, I asked you to come up
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with one question or one reflection about the topic of the lecture. So you can read the text, the
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reading for the lectures and you can for instance ask a question about something which is
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not clear or hopefully also provide your own reflection or your own experience about the readings.
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Probably most of you already have some kind of background already have studied some kind of
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psychology or even done in emprical research. So you may have your own experience to share with us, with
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all the rest of our classroom. Finally, when we go to the classroom
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you will see the the lecture will be recorded and the recording of the lecture will be uploaded on
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on Canvas afterwards. So you can watch it over and over again. The idea is that we use the
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time in a kind of optimal way so that
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our Hybrid models of partly online and partly in presence, will allow us to have to make the most of
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the time, the short time unfortunately that we have together. So how you should use the materials
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that you will find on Canvas. As I said, you are expected first of all to watch the short video
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about each topic. In this video, as I'm doing right now, I will give you some orientations about the
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topic, some basic concepts about topic of each lecture and I will also tell you what are the
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highlights or the the main points in each text that you're supposed to read. Then you have
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to carefully read the text pensum for each lecture.
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And, as I said, you are required to prepare one question or one reflection about the readings
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for that specific topic. You can post your question on the Canvas forum. So each one of you is
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supposed to post a question or a short reflection. Then I will collect all your
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questions and comments. I will organize them into topics and when we meeting classroom,
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I will answer as much as possible, your question. So my lecture in classroom will consist of
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elaborating or answering your question or deepening some specific or crucial topic of interest. And
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this part of the lecture will be recorded. Of course only my image will be recorded in the
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classroom. So will you can also
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have the possibility to go back on canvas afterwards and watch again the discussion. Then in
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each lecture, we will have a second part. So we have the lectures are composed of two slots 45
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minutes. In the first half of the 45 minutes. I will answer your questions and elaborate your
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reflections. In the second half we will try to have
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practical activity. So, the idea is that, you know, talking about methodology is, of course, talking
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about methods, but what I want to achieve with this module is also that you become able to talk
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methods. So in other words that you are able to have a grasp on what is actually the practice of
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methods, so that you become
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able to choose among a variety of possibilities. Because qualitative research is not just
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interviewing. As you probably have been told for a long time, but you will see that there are a
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number of possibilities that can be adapted to your specific research questions and object of study.
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So, now I want to briefly mention the main text, the handbook. Basically have two kind of readings in
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the pensum.
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Some selected chapters of the handbook, called Handbook of Emergent Methods and some additional
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articles. By the way, during the course I will also provide you with some additional material. Kind
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of videos or further readings that, of course, you are free to watch and read if you are
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interested in one particular method for instance. So how to read
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the handbook. As you may see the handbook of a Emergent Methods is not really new. So it has
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been published a few years ago. And of course you may find some language kind of bit outdated or
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maybe the technologies that are mentioned can be like a bit, can sound kind of awkwardly old.
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Such as little videotaping, nobody's videotaping anymore today. However, what is very important is
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that the methods that are described in this handbook are still very relevant and actually
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they are still innovative in master courses like ours. So they are not really included in many
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syllabus.
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So you will find them can kind of surprising. Anyway, the other important aspect of this
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book is that it's somehow inviting the reader inviting, you students to be creative and innovative
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with the method. So, a method is basically a way to find an answer to our curiosity and to our
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research questions. So the method in it self,
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invites us to develop the way to answer this question. Because our questions always evolve. So
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does the methods that we use. Well, how the handbook is structured. You have selected number of
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chapters. Not so many dont worry, but each chapter is organized in the following case. There is an
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overview of the
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topic or the method. Then there is an historical part, explaining how, what is the history was
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this the region of that specific method and then the authors of the chapter, they present some
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interesting example of applications of the method. So, how to use the methods. We will complement
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this with some hands-on activities in the classroom. So we, you will actually try to use some
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methods, of course, not all of them because we have a limited time,
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but we will try to have some fun doing this. So, as I said, for each chapter, I will
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provide a short video to guide you through the reading of the chapter and just stressing the
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probably the most important concepts. But, of course, I really invite you to have a look at the rest
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of the chapter, also those that are not included in the
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pensum. I have to make a selection, of course, but please feel free to have a look at the other
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chapters. For instance there are several chapters chapters on ethnography, that you
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may find very very interesting. Now, let's go back to the classroom. As you may know, we
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still are into a hybrid model because we never completely sure
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sure about what's going to happen in the fall. So we will have a limited class time and limited
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space in the classroom, and we will try to make the best out of it. So as I said you are
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required to read before hands and every time we meeting classroom. We will have a first half of the
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lecture that will be discussion, answer
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questions and making some reflections. And of course I will try to organize the the discussion, but
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please feel free to ask question and two to share your reflection. This is very
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important. And during the second half of the lecture we will try to be organized in small
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groups and make some group exercise
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of the method of the day. There will be also some teaching assistants that will help in this
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process. I hope that everything is clear. Of course always feel free to ask question. What I
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would like to emphasize is that the spirit of this course is to work together. So you have always to
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remember that science is a collective enterprise.
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Nobody learns alone. Nobody develops knowledge alone. So the the speed of this course is that we help
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each other, including you helping me, to understand things and to develop, especially to develop new
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ideas. Please remember that there are no stupid questions. Sometimes I can give stupid answers, but
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please feel free to ask and to share.
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And also, probably the last point I want to make clear, is that research is about curiosity.
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And what we are going to do is to learn how what's the best way to fulfill our curiosity. So,
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please always stay curious and stay active. Okay, and I'll see you soon very soon in classroom.
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Bye.