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- Title
On Learning the Research Craft: Memoirs of a Journeyman Researcher.
- Authors
Guthrie, Cathy
- Abstract
The notion of researcher as craftsman is not new. This article takes the analogy further, exploring the similarities between the research student's journey and the artisan's transition from apprentice to journeyman to member of the guild, in the light of the author's own PhD experience. Having completed her apprenticeship with the MSc, she compares her doctoral explorations of the existing literature and the methodology texts with the medieval journeyman's migration from one master craftsman to another, incorporating the knowledge acquired into the eventual masterpiece which determines entry to the guild and perpetuates the myth of a linear research process as against the reiterative reality of the qualitative research journey.
- Publication
Journal of Research Practice, 2007, Vol 3, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1712-851X
- Publication type
Academic Journal