[Xmca-l] Re: What is science?: Where to start doctoral students?

[Beth Ferholt]

Great. Kuhn and Thinking and Speech are two of the few things on my list
already and I’ll start reading the other two, sensible or no, now! Thanks
so much, Beth

On Thursday, November 1, 2018, Andy Blunden <andyb@marxists.org> wrote:

> Beth, much as a part of me would like to recommend the Preface to Hegel's
> Phenomenology, being sensible I would still recommend:
>
>    1. The first chapter of Thinking and Speech https://www.marxists.org/
>    archive/vygotsky/works/words/ch01.htm
>    <https://www.marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/works/words/ch01.htm>
>    2. Marx's Method of Political Economy https://www.marxists.org/
>    archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ch01.htm#loc3
>    <https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ch01.htm#loc3>
>    3. And they should read Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific
>    Revolutions
>    https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/kuhn.htm
>
> Who knows? You might be fostering an original thinker?
> Andy
> ------------------------------
> Andy Blunden
> http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm
> On 1/11/2018 11:43 PM, Beth Ferholt wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 10:09 AM Beth Ferholt < <bferholt@gmail.com>
> bferholt@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm starting to take the role of advisor on doctoral dissertations and
>>>>> wonder how best to begin to discuss "what is science?" with students who
>>>>> will need to respond concisely when asked about the rigor and reliability
>>>>> of their formative intervention, narrative and/or autobiographical studies.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm looking for an overview or paper that does more than argue the
>>>>> value of one approach -- something to start them off thinking about the
>>>>> issues, not immerse them in one perspective quite yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> If not an overview then maybe a paper that contextualizes "rigor" and
>>>>> "reliability".
>>>>>
>>>>> Obviously this is an endless topic but do some people reading XMCA
>>>>> have some favorite papers that they give to their advisees or use when they
>>>>> teach a methods class?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> Beth
>>>>> --
>>>>> Beth Ferholt
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>>>>> Affiliated Faculty, CUNY Graduate Center
>>>>> Brooklyn College, City University of New York
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>>>>
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>>>
>

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Beth Ferholt
Associate Professor, Department of Early Childhood and Art Education;
Affiliated Faculty, CUNY Graduate Center
Brooklyn College, City University of New York
2900 Bedford Avenue
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