Award: h2cm #1 Framework ... #2 and #3?
"Elden and Levin (1991) suggest distinguishing between insider and outsider frameworks. A framework is described as a way of understanding. Insiders are the project workers or programme staff who have first-hand experience of the situation. They have their views about programme goals and problem solutions. The outsiders are the external researchers, the social scientists, who bring a battery of research skills and a wealth of theoretical ideas: 'The richness and quality of the research depends on the ability of the insiders to play their different frameworks and expertise against each other to create a new, third explanatory framework." (1991: 132). p.28.
outsider new insider | outsider new insider |
insider |
insider new outsider |
Nurses, and nursing encompass all three, but (should - must) realise they are also part of the 'system', together with their colleagues in the multidisciplinary team.
In grounded theory, participatory - ethnological and other qualitative approaches, we need to ensure the 'ground' to inhabit is sufficiently accessible. Hodges' model can assist in scoping a project; what is the perspective, standpoint, or positioning? While the health, or social care staff are the insider's and conceptually at the center of the model, the aim is to place the patient, carer at the center, with the situation we collectively encounter. The model's subjective - objective duality can also act as a regulator to assure overall balance.
Elden, M., & Levin, M. (1991). Cogenerative Learning. Bringing
Participation Interaction Research. In W. F. Whyte (Ed.), Participatory
Action Research (pp. 127-142). Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
Clarke, A. (1999). Evaluation research. SAGE Publications Ltd,
https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781849209113
[Clarke, again: p.174]
"Carol Weiss (1988a), one of the foremost writers on the impact research findings on policy, describes four ways in which evaluation information is used in the decision-making process. First, the information provided by evaluators can serve as a warning that that something is going wrong. For example, if early research findings suggest that some groups are not receiving the designated services, or intermediate outcome measures are not being achieved, then corrective action can be taken before the situation worsens. Second, evaluation findings can provide guidance for improving a programme. ... A third contribution evaluation can make is by way of offering a new way of looking at a familiar problem; Weiss refers to this as 'reconceptualization'. Finally, evaluation can be used to mobilize support for a project or programme." p.174.Weiss, C.H. (1988a) 'Evaluation for decisions: Is anybody there? Does anybody care?', Evaluation Practice, 9 (1):5-19.
n.b. When on the PhD programme [MRes], I looked at evaluation and design-based research as potential research methods.
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