Read proposal to familiarize yourself with the topic as it relates to CTE Administrators’ perceptions and values about students earning a CTE credential. To enhance chapter 1 of my proposal, I need to include Justification and Positionality sections. Those two sections must include the following information:
Justification
Provide evidence from the literature that demonstrates knowledge of prior studies on your topic. The following prompts may be helpful in drafting information for this section:
• Why does this issue matter?
• Who else cares about this?
• What research is available regarding this topic?
• How does this project build upon work (theoretical and practical) that has already been done?
• What evidence is missing in the literature and/or the context where you will be conducting your research?
Deficiencies in the evidence. Identifies evidence that is missing in the literature and/or the context where you will be conducting your research.
Identities.
• What is my trajectory and passion for this work?
• Who am I as a student?
• Who am I as a professional?
• Who am I as a researcher?
Exploring bias.
• When considering “blind spots”, what assumptions may inhibit me from fully understanding or engaging my research population?
• In what ways am I complicit in the issue I am exploring/examining? Where do I have potential to do harm?
• What tools do I have to leverage power within my respective institutions?
• Where is there power in the space that I am investigating?
What do I want to be known for?
• What relationships do I want to build with my work?
• What systems do I want to build or disrupt with my work?
• How will my research better position me as a scholar practitioner?
