GCOUP 8024 Introduction to Critical Inquiry and Research Methodology
This course aims to provide epistemological, philosophical and methodological foundations for critical social inquiry and empirical research. Students will engage in reflexive, dialogic and multivocal explorations about the nature and history of knowledge production, and the relation between knowledge and power. It will examine sociocultural-political embeddedness of knowledge and research, as intersected with researcher positionality, research ethics and accountability. It offers an introduction to qualitative, quantitative, mixed-method, participatory/action research, and art-based methodologies.