Document Type
Article
Source of Publication
International Journal of Qualitative Methods
Publication Date
1-1-2011
Abstract
Diaries have long been seen as tools for reflection in learning languages, and learning about teaching. Despite this recognition of the importance of narratives in diary writing, little attention has been paid to the role of research diaries in the process of learning about research, and learning how to be a researcher. During the author's own research into the construction of teaching knowledge by pre-service trainees, she became aware that her research diary was scaffolding her own construction of research knowledge. In this article the author discusses the role of a research diary based on a socio-cultural theory of learning. The diary acts as the expert other in the scaffolding of research knowledge by the novice researcher. The discussion of the nature of the scaffolding and the role of diary writing draws on examples from the author's research diary written during her doctoral studies.
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ISSN
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Volume
10
First Page
296
Last Page
306
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Recommended Citation
Engin, Marion, "Research Diary: A Tool for Scaffolding" (2011). All Works. 2943.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/2943
Indexed in Scopus
no
Open Access
yes
Open Access Type
Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series