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How do I organized my research

“What are the hierarchies of information in my research. Other than chronologically, how can I organize your research and its claims in a logical way?”

For my research paper, I have multi-resources for my final paper. Majorly my resource is about the contribution of Owen toward to education from beginning of his career to New harmony and La nark. To organize my resources from  research, I decided to just follow the logical way to fit in my paper.

 

In my paper, in the beginning the intro part, I will first introduce the life and career of Owen as a social reformist. In that way I can use the information of Owen’s  life and part of the essay from his bibliography. Then I will illustrate Owen’s education philosophy so the information in my research is from secondary resource book about his major ideas toward new harmony and Lanark.

After introducing his philosophy of education, i definitely need to have some examples to prove my point. So I will introduce the schools system in new lanark and Harmony.  Of course those information is from my secondary resource book and I will tell all the detail inside of my paper.

it is just like that. Though in some part of the research we got lots of information and data, the way we use those information and data need to follow the main arguing ideas for each paragraph in the paper. It is different and kind hard comparing just following the chronological way to rank the information. Ranking the value of information by fitting to the main argument in the paper would be a really good way to start both research and information collection.

 

 

 

How do I come out my research question

How did this week’s research help me come to my final research question?

From the time I read the primary resource, I have strong interest in the education function that Owen using in his new community. As a finding father of kindergarten, Owen’s thinking is provocative and profound in his generation and has lots of influence to the later utopia’s project. So i decided to research about Owen’s education in his new Harmony and new Lanark in the primary resource.

With the help Liberian, I found out actually a really useful primary resource about Owen’s self -bibliography:  The Life of Robert Owen, written by himself, with selections from his writings and correspondence.  In this bibliography illustrated the way how Owen organized his school and set up his career rules. It provided really useful first hand information to my topic: how he came out of those ideas and how those ideas contribute to his ideal society. But it is only from Owen’s side. Then i found out my another secondary resource about comparison between the new Harmony and lanark.  it draw conclusion about how Owen’s new world thinking fall from different ways in society or Education. I think i am going to quoting it in my paper to be one of the argue point. Also in this secondary resource, it also talks about how Owen influenced future Utopia thinker like karl Marx. So from those resources I searched, I decided to write my paper: How did Owen’s new community’s education reflect utopia thinking.

Why I choose Owen as my research

What do I find interesting or curious about this group of people? What more do I need to know to situate this community in the problem or concept of utopia?

The Owen and his new world.

From the reading about Robert Owen and his new Harmony, It is really interesting to see some of his successful or even provocative ideas toward to the education and management ways. When Owen was running for the factory in British, he realized that early education toward to the infants to 6 years old kids would be really important for their future development. Thus, He decided to provide the early education institutions that working class parents could only pay the little bit of money to give their kids to the institution. The infants school also contributes Owen’s idea of replacing negative family influence with a positive environment for instilling desired value and fashioning superior value. ( Pitzer 94). His idea of education also showed up in his future school designing: He wanted textbook using sparingly and his students learned everything by doing. His idea is much more advance comparing with his peer in that ages. I think why Owen was so concentrating on education because he believed that the old world thinking can not fit the new Utopia world’s philosophy. The only way to change people’s mind is to develop a new generation that has the new idea and thinking for the new world–It is probably the reason why he wanted negative family affections out of early education. Though his idea is great and comparing with the idea of other utopias thinkers, Owen’s education is easier and more reachable, the only issue is that he did not have enough time for his new harmony to develop the new generation.