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Welcome to Conceptual Frameworks Project!
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Your conceptual framework is pivotal to your research project.
It identifies and explicates the subject of study and so determines the relevance of literature and the appropriateness of research methods.
No matter which discipline or paradigm forms the research context, the conceptual framework does the work of integrating, aligning and justifying all aspects of the research project.
Ultimately it is the final conceptual framework that makes your theoretical contribution.
The conceptual framework may be tacit or explicit, diagrammatic, text or image; it may be pre-existing or created and evolved in the research process.
This book covers the nature of the conceptual framework, its creation, explication, use, and critique.
Pages being built:
- Theory of Conceptual Frameworks
- Three Worlds Model
- Worlds 1 & 2 - Physical and cognitive
- World of Information
- Domain (scope, discipline)
- Concepts & Cognition
- Phenomena & Representation
- Abstraction (1 data, 2 substantive, 3 upper levels, universal)
- Conceptual Structure
- Concepts, Relationships, Ontology
- Domain Knowledge
- Language & Communication
- Three Worlds Model
- Development of Your Conceptual Framework
- Concept Map