The CASL Research team uses creative qualitative research data collection and analysis, measurement theory, and adult learning principles to elicit deep reflection of people’s knowledge and experiences. Research facilitators use creative elicitation techniques consisting of a combination of interactive presentations, small-group inspired by World-Café modeled discussions, collaborative technologies, and creativity activities such as brainstorming, forced connections, guided journaling, and collective storytelling to elicit the expert knowledge of leaders.
CASL’s creative knowledge elicitation strategies are rooted in oral traditions and the active engagement of research participants. Creative elicitation is an interactive, inquiry-based approach to collecting rich qualitative data. The following video and explanations below are examples of CASL’s creative knowledge elicitation strategies.
Using collective storytelling, the facilitator encourages the participants to tell a collective story that describes the leader. The collective stories allow participants to offer deep insights into leadership traits, accomplishments, and challenges they may not otherwise feel comfortable owning or associating with themselves or an associated leader.
A silent journaling activity is guided by CASL research prompts derived from CASL’s research. In answering the prompts, participants are asked to center in thought the HBCU STEM Leader co-created together during the collective storytelling segment.
Forced connections are based on the brain’s ability to link two disparate items -such as words, objects, feelings, and ideas- and then use the new language generated by the linkages to think through the problem. It is called Forced Connections because it relies on random external triggers that force people to make a connection between the problem at hand and the trigger. These triggers cause people to broaden their perspective.
Online collaborative tools allow participants to reflect on their journaling and the collective story. Participants identify the traits, behaviors, and practices HBCU STEM leaders exhibit in the real world that are observable and reflective of the HBCU Soul of Leadership.
"The World Cafe approach uses intimate conversations at small café-style tables or in small conversation clusters, [which] link and build on each other as people move between groups, cross-pollinate ideas, and make new connections around questions that matter to their life, work, or community” (Tan & Brown, 2005, p. 85).
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