Hats Off: Facilitating Reflexivity in Novice Qualitative Researchers During the Memoing Process
Location
1047
Format Type
Event
Format Type
Paper
Start Date
January 2018
End Date
January 2018
Abstract
Novice qualitative researchers require a unique portfolio of critical, creative, and problem solving skills to navigate their development as qualitative researchers. This educational session will present Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats method for facilitating perspective taking, and teach participants how the method can be used for structuring researcher memos. Attendees will learn the general concept of parallel thinking, a detailed introduction to the Six Thinking Hats method, their purpose, and application to qualitative research.
Hats Off: Facilitating Reflexivity in Novice Qualitative Researchers During the Memoing Process
1047
Novice qualitative researchers require a unique portfolio of critical, creative, and problem solving skills to navigate their development as qualitative researchers. This educational session will present Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats method for facilitating perspective taking, and teach participants how the method can be used for structuring researcher memos. Attendees will learn the general concept of parallel thinking, a detailed introduction to the Six Thinking Hats method, their purpose, and application to qualitative research.
Comments
The Six Thinking Hats method is a thought focusing process designed by Edward de Bono which describes a tool for individual thinking involving six colored metaphorical hats. Six Thinking Hats, and the associated idea of parallel thinking, provide a means for individuals and groups to coordinate thinking, and in so doing, think more effectively, and deeply. The Six Thinking Hats method can assist the novice qualitative researcher to construct meaningful, and reflexive, researcher memos. At its core, this method provides qualitative researchers the means to engage with themselves, in multi-perspectival conversations with themselves, as researchers.