Read a classic study through nine lenses
Study guides for Paradigms and Perspectives in Psychology (MSc, level 600). Each guide starts from zero and explains what the researchers did and why. Then it reads the same study through all nine perspectives in your course outline, so you can see how one piece of research looks different from each side.
Each circle is one perspective. They all cover the centre, the study itself, but each one colours it differently.
Every guide follows your journal outline
The pages are grouped by the sections of the Reflective Learning Journey. Work through them in order, or jump to the section you are writing.
- Understanding the study
Citation, the study (summary, participants, method, findings) and its importance.
- Paradigm analysis
The main perspective and the assumptions behind the research.
- Looking through other lenses
How each of the nine perspectives would read the study.
- Cultural and decolonial reflection
A Global South and Indian reading, and questions of power and representation.
- Research design critique
The research design, its strengths and its limitations.
- Stakeholder redesign
How different people would redesign the study, and why.
- Learning journey reflection
What challenged you, what changed, what questions remain. You write this part.
Sections C and F go further than the outline asks. The outline says "complete at least three" lenses and "choose two" stakeholders. The guides cover all nine lenses and all seven stakeholders, so you can compare them and choose well.
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New guides are added one study at a time, after an independent accuracy review.