Creswell Exercise

I’m not sure if I’m doing this exercise correctly, but I’m going to try my best….

TOPIC: Dream Analysis

For this topic, I would use the social constructivist worldview. I chose this worldview because it involves individuals trying to understand the world they live in. This would pair nicely with trying to analyze what people’s dreams really mean. People want to understand why they are having the dreams they are having and if they really do have meaning to them. I would use the mixed method strategy of inquiry. I feel that this is the most useful type of inquiry because using quantitative and qualitative methods helps to provide the most information to back up your research. I would use the concurrent mixed method procedure because it merges both methods in order to provide the most support. The text research would help to explain the analysis of dreams while the statistics would help to give real life examples.

TOPIC: Jewelry Design

For this topic, I would take a bit of a different approach. I would use the postpositivist worldview. This uses a deterministic philosophy which is what is needed when discussing jewelry design. This topic takes a lot of effort and it needs to be explained very thoroughly so that it can be learned. I would use the qualitative method because this topic involves more text than anything else. I would use the grounded theory so that the action of completing jewelry design can be thoroughly understood. The research method I would use would be the qualitative method. This would allow me to use observation data to show others how to complete this task.