Some ideas...leading to Humanism in Distance Education

Basically, phenomenology studies the structure of various types of experience ranging from perception, thought, memory, imagination, emotion, desire, and volition to bodily awareness, embodied action, and social activity, including linguistic activity. The structure of these forms of experience typically involves what Husserl called “intentionality”, that is, the directedness of experience toward things in the world, the property of consciousness that it is a consciousness of or about something. According to classical Husserlian phenomenology, our experience is directed toward — represents or “intends” — things only through particular concepts, thoughts, ideas, images, etc. These make up the meaning or content of a given experience, and are distinct from the things they present or mean.[From: Stanford Encyclopedia]

This portion is by design related to the Dissertation at Fielding Graduate University/ Margith A Strand

Margith Strand/November 20, 2010/Fielding Graduate University

There are four stages of analyses to the Grounded Theory methodology (Wikipedia); one of them is "codes." I will be applying a concept in analysis which I will term "code mobility;" this is a concept which  assists in transcending time, place and space parameters of a sociological setting.

Stage	Purpose
Codes	Identifying anchors that allow the key points of the data to be gathered
Concepts	Collections of codes of similar content that allows the data to be grouped
Categories	Broad groups of similar concepts that are used to generate a theory
Theory	A collection of explanations that explain the subject of the research

[This is a term which was originally referred by "Polo" Chen in his Dissertation at Ohio University]

Constitutive Analysis and Structuration Theory

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=rEDSNVV2SDAC&oi=fnd&pg=PA103&dq=constitutive+and+structuration+theory&ots=SZws4rKGHf&sig=WbTXVVoaFb-lKKP31MwWrI89iBQ#v=onepage&q=constitutive%20and%20structuration%20theory&f=false

Structuration Theory and Information Systems

http://books.google.com/books?id=UPGo_047vu8C&lpg=PA206&ots=6YJFtU0Tm2&dq=Bridge%20across%20structuration%20theory%20and%20grounded%20theor&lr&pg=PA209#v=onepage&q&f=false

Systems Analysis Relational Themes/ Margith Strand

Tuesday, July 20, 2010TIme/ Distance Education/ Margith A. Strand/July 20, 2010/ Fielding Graduate University

"A Transcendental determination of time is so far homogeneous with the category, which constitutes the unity thereof, that it is universal, and rests upon a rule a priori. On the other hand, it is so far homogeneous with the phenomenon, inasmuch as time is contained in every empirical representation of the manifold." Immanuel Kant

"Time is contained as a system in Distance Learning." Margith A. Strand "Space is a determination, a whatness, a content, of an abstract something in which all the objects of our experience participate" I. Kant; "....inasmuch as time is contained in every empirical representation of the manifold." Kant

Time is captured in the words, and yet, the words are an experiential and empirical representation of action...social justice as discourse. Margith A. Strand



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Adaptive Structuration Theory Diagram: DeSanctis and Poole

Structuration Theory: Wikipedia

The theory of structuration, proposed by Anthony Giddens (1984) in The Constitution of Society (mentioned also in Central Problems of Social Theory, 1979), is an attempt to reconcile theoretical dichotomies of social systems such as agency/structure, subjective/objective, and micro/macro perspectives. The approach does not focus on the individual actor or societal totality "but social practices ordered across space and time" (p. 2). Its proponents adopt this balanced position, attempting to treat influences of structure (which inherently includes culture) and agency equally. See structure and agency.

Simply put, the theory of structuration holds that all human action is performed within the context of a pre-existing social structure which is governed by a set of norms and/or laws which are distinct from those of other social structures. Therefore, all human action is at least partly predetermined based on the varying contextual rules under which it occurs. However, the structure and rules are not permanent and external, but sustained and modified by human action in a textbook example of reflexive feedback.