position statement
First: A Work in Progress: submitting a 1,000 word position statement in which you declare an epistemological stance, and draw connections between your position and ideas presented in course readings and class discussions.
these are the ideas from the whole class, + add some more about the important of validity and inquiry in research.
Also, declare an epistemological stance as a pragmatism and subjective researcher, or reflect that I believe I will be a pragmatist and subjective researcher
Reflection 1:
Education research is defined as the scientific study field that evaluates education and the process of learning as well as the human attributes, interactions, institutions and organizations that determine educational results. Researchers in this field of study aims at describing, understanding and explaining the manner in which learning happens throughout the life of an individual as well as how the formal and informal circumstances affect every form of learning.
As a doctoral student and a future researcher, this class helps me to understand and look beyond the information that I'm looking for. To understand the difference between a theory and facts .to be a researcher in the field of education you have to understand what educational prospect you have to follow, the present education, or what the future education will be. The idea of being a research for me is to add a new thing to the educational history, to find something that is missing or not covered the way it should be covered. As a special education doctoral student, and as a student in the epistemology class, I understand that my field is not that easy to research about because in many cases the environment and other factors may affect my results or it could change during the time.
The human science and the educational field is related to the human part and what the situation around the study topic or what the society may reflect on about the topic. In Saudi Arabia, if we talked about special education, most of the time we couldn’t find a clear answer for our researchers because of the society or the families and what they needed or understood, which lead us to the most important thing. For me what I needed the most is for the society to understand why we are researching and why we are looking for an answer or new innovation in the educational field.
The time is changing and the traditional way of learning is no longer effective, we need to create new ways to make the new generation learn and think. As a mission for the educational researcher, we should be open to other ideas, to look behind the facts, to read and learn more, this is the way to open up on the theory of learning and how to encourage ourselves to look more and discover new things for the future.
Reflection2:
The last couple of classes include to my knowledge a lot, and how to be an outstanding educator. From my point of view, the last classes were talking about the history of race and feminism. This history is what we are going to know and gets what we found it helpful in our days. Moreover, shift the negative effort that been an issue at that time. Race, gender in education from my understanding doesn’t matter; what really matter is obtaining the quality of what the person or educator or scholar gives to the field. The world is changing but sometimes the culture and background can affects or thinking; because of the things that we raise to know or we persuade it of our elder society members.
Also, I felt proud in the feminist presentation of what my country becomes in the academic field. I am proud how my country is trying to become a country with outstanding members who belong to that country. This presentation comes along with our 88th national day which makes me proud to represent Saudi Arabia. What surprises me is that every country they had the same stereotype of female education and learning and how they change their perspective regard this matter. The traditional thinking was constructive at their time, but in our lifetime it’s something not acceptable; it is no difference between gender or race or background, it’s what the individual gives to the world. Science or humanity or any other filed are important to the future generation. All these fields are part of the ordinary life or the future life. As an educator, I believe that without all these fields and researches to get something new for the future. We should develop the future without placing our attention on which field is important to the humanity. All of us are working for a worthier life and that what we should focus on. We can’t change other people’s attitudes to the others but we can establish some critical effect for the future.
Reflection3:
From my understanding, I believe that the last two weeks topics are related, everything happens in the postmodernism is somehow related to post-colonialism. All of these days changes happen because of some movements that happened in the past just to devote us the life that we are living it right now. What we get from postmodernism is something between the stories that happened in the past and the history that we want to be proud of shame of. That improves the way that we look and think about today’s world.
Traditions keep us related to the past, but it’s not supposed to keep us away from the future. Post-colonialism indicates us the political effect on what the world is trying to do to end the decolonization era. And how that affect the countries that were under the decolonization from different prospective; like the language and the culture thoughts. All these effects become a part of that country daily life and enhance their current culture. Which from my point of view could mix the historical traditions with the decolonization tradition which could makes the recent generation don’t understand any old culture thoughts.
Postmodernism represent a creative way to see and interact with the world or to be specific with the academic field. Students and learners can interact with each other, or with the new learning experience. Students can learn from the others and also in more self-creation methods. Teachers and learners trying discovering an unfamiliar way to explore things and gain the knowledge that they obtain to get. Adolescent children can be more affective with the Postmodernism method in the academic field. It gives them the unusual way to explore and learn. Postmodernism changes the way the educational guide and rules, which requires the teachers a researcher to know how to interact with their student in unusual learning set. It improves all the educational part to know and explore more.
Reflection 4:
The academic system supposed to encourage the students to reveal their identity and learn how to be proud of themselves. As an as an individual; I need representing myself, represent my values and show the world who I am. Indigenous does not mean I’m nothing, or I have to be treated individually. Indigenous doesn’t mean I’m a minority. I might be from a majority, but not in this place; however big or small the place I represent myself. Thinking back about Indigenous presentation prompts me of the teacher and teaching values. And how I should assess and treat my students without taking in what they are, or which part of the religion they came from.
What I found it related to me during the ecological class, how we relay in the environment all the time. How people interact with their natural and how our natural affects the way we think, the way we act and the way we respond. My environment is aggressive, not a green light environment; maybe because of that, I’m presenting myself through this natural. I’m presenting myself as a capable woman that can handle the distance between my home and me. Learning is always a great thing and always we can find something in our environment related to us somehow.
Last but not least, we as researcher, educator, and part of the academic and learning system supposed to know there is no ideal place. Life doesn’t come the way that we want. In addition, we should believe in diversity. So we can accept our students the way they are, not modifying them according to our thoughts or the way that we know. Maybe we are wrong from the beginning, maybe they are the right and all our values doesn’t mean anything. But everyone must imitate and respect what we believe, we should consider that for others also.
Reflection 5:
For me what I got from this experience, I learned that I should be more careful with my choices especially when talking to other people. People are entirely different and have different feelings, thoughts, and understanding of the language, whether written or oral. As a researcher, I have been able to spend time with people and understood them well to a point I can write so much about them. If someone was given a chance to write about you, how would you want to be described? How would you want me to define you? And what would you want me to write about you? These questions must be in mind any researcher before he starts writing anybody.
The fact is that, no one wants to be misunderstood, this idea was got from various representatives. The researchers working in this field are required to fully understand the perspective of the author, to provide an accurate representation of the same. Language, therefore, plays the role of a constitutive force responsible for creating reality. Note well, most writers today have emphasized the use of scientific conventions in writing and have managed to identify the lack of style in such tales as a rhetorical device. I used to be an Arabic writer, and for sure, I never want anybody to write any false information about me without them even knowing anything about my thoughts.