1. by Norman Harris, PhD

2. An Appreciative Inquiry  Four Phases of Appreciative Inquiry (AI)  Discovery  Dream  Design  Destiny  The Khepera Method and AI  Harmony  Wisdom  Power

3. How About You? 1. You have talents and demonstrated abilities 2. You have developed techniques (some explicit and others implicit) to facilitate your professional development 3. List some of the things you do well as a professional 4. List some of the techniques you use for success  More About AI AI builds on several assumptions, including: 1. In every society, organization, or group, something works. 2. What we focus on becomes our reality. 3. The act of asking questions of an organization or group influences the group in some way. 4. What we want already exists in ourselves, our firms, our organizations, and our communities

4. What about you?  More about the Khepera Method : A Meaning Making Framework A meaning-making framework is one that integrates new information through and with the best traditions in your own history and culture. This is the basis for authentic and transformative education. After all, education is about building bridges from what you already know into less- known regions.

5. What about you? Can you create your own method? Can scholarship be value free? Newtonian Physics Quantum Physics Double-Slit Experiment ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc Should scholarship be value free? Can Scholarship be value free? What values guide the communities you identify with? Do you identify with those values? Why do you identify with those values? Why are those values important to you? What values structure your professional / personal life?  Khepera Method  Harmony  Peace and Health  Uniqueness and what we share in common  Relational Law, Justice, Free Will  Wisdom  “Knowing without going through a logical process”  Skilful application of techniques in finite systems  Power  Ability to transform yourself in a manner that demonstrates that we are connected  Ability to transform communities in a manner that demonstrates that we are connected

6. What about you? Some of the roles you play: Teacher Student Boss Employee Creator Consumer Husband Wife Mother Father  Duality  Free will in a finite world  Ability to create in the context of limitations  Science  Math  Religion  Music  Relationships  Nature  Etc.

7. What about you? How do I translate my interests and values into useful research questions? What is the relationship between my research question and my methodology? Are there appropriate methods to answer the questions I want answered? What makes writing effective? What do I already do well as a communicator that can be used as a basis to write my dissertation—and academic papers for that matter? What is the purpose of APA style? Can I write in the first person.  Scholar – Practitioner at Fielding Graduate University  All of your work will proceed along dual tracks  Research Questions  What you want the reader to feel  What you want the reader to know  Methodologies  Quantitative  Qualitative  Academic Writing  Mindful content  Appropriate form  Applied Work  Informational dimension  Transformative dimension

8. What do you know? Here are some basic definitions and resources: A thesis statement indicates the topic, imposes limits, and suggests an organization A paragraph is a unit of organization to develop single topics introduced in the thesis A five paragraph essay contains the organizational seed of a dissertation  Complexity Myths and other self-fulfilling prophecies  From FELIX we learn that a dissertation draft generally includes :  introduction and general purpose of study  review of the literature (theoretical, methodological, topical)  statement of the research question/problem/topic  explanation of methodology  summary and detailed presentation of findings  analysis and discussion of their meaning

9. What about you? Questions you might have about the following aspects of your program: 1. Writing a contract 2. Writing a literature review 3. Writing the comprehensive exam 4. Writing the dissertation 5. APA Style 6. Miscellaneous considerations

10. What about you? Why are you asking the questions you are asking? How will your work at Fielding affect your family, friends, and community? How will your work at Fielding affect you? How did your decision to enroll at Fielding make you feel? How did it make your family, friends and community feel? What do you expect to “get out” of your Fielding experience? What do your family, friends and family expect for you to get out of your Fielding experience? What has given you the greatest pleasure about your Fielding experience? How might you replicate that feeling? How might it be used as fuel to drive you to complete your program?  What makes an Authentic- Scholar?  Fidelity to the best traditions of your personal, family, ethnic, and gender culture and history  Responsible belligerence: a willingness to question “authority” and tradition  An unyielding (perhaps even irrational) belief that humanity has the ability to do better  Honesty and integrity  A desire to see all people ascend— particularly those who have been historically marginalized

11. Finding online resources: Fielding online library—wonderfully organized, thorough and helpful Google Scholar (useful morsels that may require further exploration) Google Alerts (create your own research librarian to deliver findings to your email address) MIT Open Courseware—groundbreaking site http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htmhttp://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm iTunes University (download iTunes and visit the store to access this source—these university courses and lectures are free) University of Texas World Lecture Hall http://wlh.webhost.utexas.edu/ http://wlh.webhost.utexas.edu/ MERLOT (multimedia educational resource for learning and online teaching)—an unparalleled resource http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.ht m http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.ht m H-Net Online: Humanities and Social Sciences Online—another great resource that connects you with others in the field http://www.h-net.org/ http://www.h-net.org/  Resources  Purdue University OWL http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ http://owl.english.purdue.edu/  University Writing Center http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/index.html http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/index.html  Writing the literature review http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/lit erature_review.html http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/lit erature_review.html  Writing a research question http://www.esc.edu/htmlpages/writerold/menu s.htm http://www.esc.edu/htmlpages/writerold/menu s.htm  Formulating a research question http://www.theresearchassistant.com/tutorial/2.a sp http://www.theresearchassistant.com/tutorial/2.a sp  Strunk and White, Elements of Style http://www.bartleby.com/141/ http://www.bartleby.com/141/  Qualitative versus Quantitative Research Methods http://wilderdom.com/research/QualitativeVers usQuantitativeResearch.html http://wilderdom.com/research/QualitativeVers usQuantitativeResearch.html  Qualitative and Quantitative debate http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/quald eb.php http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/quald eb.php