Generalizations 5# Dupret, K., & Chimirri, N. (2018)

At the current stage this project is about finding statistical generalizations in qualitative, danish educational research. That is to check my assumption that there is a tendency to make statistical generalizations on the basis of observations which cannot support such generalizations.

I will be posting excerpts from all those studies which to me seem problematic. This post is part of that and this is a link to the first post in the line.

Dupret, K., & Chimirri, N. (2018).

Reference:

Dupret, K., & Chimirri, N. (2018). Teaching ethical participatory codesign. Dansk Universitetspædagogisk Tidsskrift, 13(24), 20–36.

https://doi.org/10.7146/dut.v13i24.96709

Abstract:

How to incorporate critical and societally relevant thinking and acting into Higher Education teaching formats? The article proposes social design workshops, which teach ethics through design by explicitly addressing and building on the functional diversity of participating stakeholders, and by fostering ongoing mutual reflection. These workshops are inspired by participatory design, political theory, disability studies and psychological practice research. By drawing on empirical material from a design workshop with Bachelor students and external collaborators including psychologically vulnerable stakeholders, we argue for an adaptive framework of analytical-pedagogical inquiry that can be continuously co-designed. In particular, ethical design requires a broad and emergent definition of participation. Ethical design is participatory-democratic co-design, which acknowledges and bridges across the various stakeholders’ functional diversity.

Testable hypothesis?:

No: "How is it possible to teach social scientific co-design in ethical ways not only for particular stake-holder  groups,  but  for  a  variety  of  highly  diverse  stakeholder  groups?" s20

Method/materials:

A comment: This is a description of a projekt that included students with mental health problems at university level. Beyond the researchers' thoughts and descriptions and the products from the project, there is no formal collecting or systematization of information, not even regarding the number of persons involved.

 

Statistical generalizations:

1) "In  conclusion,  sustainable  ethical co-design understands the design product primarily as a means for enabling and extend-ing the collective design for yet another future design process that yet another functional diver-sity  of  stakeholders  can  further  develop  and  renegotiate.  In  this  way  participation  is  maximized  to the greatest possible extent through the ongoing process of situating participatory-democratic co-design across a multiplicity of concerned collectives." s34

 

Comments:

I have flagged this study for generalization of type 4 (see typology).

It is clear that if said collectives are "concerned" this must be evident by the degree of participation. It is not clear that it has been shown that "... participation is maximized...". For this reason this an example of a direct generalization.