Although it is far from finished, I feel that I have already learned some about the process of emergence while conducting a preliminary lit review for my study. Starting with a series of search terms (middle school teacher plan technology, technology planning teacher process) I was able to find many articles talking about technology rich environments, and evaluating the efficacy of teaching within them. Citation mining took me to finding some different frameworks which I believe may be useful. I'm having a difficult time delineating between lit review and conceptual framework, and further work is required.
What I noticed that was rather novel for me while going through this process was the emergence of questions after collecting and categorizing notes. This was not what I expected when I began, but as I was reading and pulling out important points, they began to fall into categories, from which I could then generate a question that they were answering. This allowed me to change and narrow my searches. New information had me re-categorizing points and refining/reshaping the questions I was asking. It also made obvious a gap - I wasn't answering a rather basic question that backgrounded the questions I was answering.
I think that this process of letting the text speak first and then finding the questions it is practicing the process of content analysis with constant comparison, which seems to be the process of review when working with a grounded study. I am interested in how this will apply to the analysis of interview transcripts and other data.
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