Monday, 16 April 2007

Visual Methods: Some thoughts

Reflexivity

After a messive work over the weekend, I realised that a chosen methodology has to be consistent with the approach I chose (based upon ontology and epistemology). The book (written by Rose) was a wrong choice due to the contradiction from my epistemology (how I know truth as the truth). Hum... it was not exactly wrong, actually.

When I take a critical approach, I must emphasise a key term: "reflexivity".

No matter what methodology and method I chose, they must be consistent with the approach I take. Once I coin the term "reflexivity", my approach soon belongs either to critical, feminist or postmodernist approach.

So, I have to think again what exactly reflexivity means. Is it what I want?

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