Learning Outcomes

In this free course, you will learn how to:

• State the way forward from research paradigms
• Explain how research and practice are linked to development studies
• Indicate if the different paradigms conflict with each other
• Discuss the different research paradigms
• State if research paradigms inform research methods and in what way
• State what a code of ethics is
• Recall when and how developmental research came about
• State the different types, forms and processes of development studies research
• State what is rigour in developmental studies
• State the characteristic features of development studies
• Distinguish between practitioners and academics
• Recall what 'research paradigms' or 'philosophical worldviews' are