Theoretical+Framework

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Link to [|concept map] of KYD dissertation. I was looking for information about distance education with the idea of reducing the sensation of distance as if that was a problematic component of DE. As it turns out the Distance is actually an attractive feature of DE that should be/could be emphasized. People adopt DE because it fits with their KYD system. Keeping your distance describes a basic social process that humans employ to manage their activities of daily living. People consciously and unconsciously choose behavioral strategies and develop behavioral patterns that allow them to maintain an optimal distance from others. These strategies may be physical, emotional psychological and many be apparent to others by various indicators. KYD strategies often involve internal negotiations and trade-offs.

(Notes about theoretical framework) Core variable and possible sub-variables In this framework the core variable is broken into categories which represent behavioral realms, The data is analyzed for indicators that would suggest a particular behavior is an example of the category. The categories are further analyzed for dimensions.
 * The theoretical memos- that explain how your properties are related to each other
 * is there a process? stages? Determined to use a Conditions/Consequences model**
 * what happens to the core variable, etc.what makes one do these things, when, why--what helps,
 * what hinders, what makes it important, what makes one less needy to do it, etc. are there stages?
 * What makes it so necessary, what makes it go away,
 * what are the stages in building up or taking down the distance, how does it work--always the same or depends on ecological environment, lots to discover
 * Causes, conditions, contingencies, contexts, consequences and covariances.
 * multivariate conceptual theory— generate categories and their properties
 * avoid logical elaboration, the process of developing theory logically rather that allowing it to emerge from data.
 * Keeping your distance,
 * maintaining distance
 * Keeping an optimal distance, (Odis suggested functional distance)

**Categories ** Personal distance          **Indicators ** **Dimensions ** · close relatives, distant relatives · commute or telecommute · fantasy, role playing · choices that support KYD, are you conscious of holding a KYD strategy how clearly can you articulate it and rationalize it. · occupational · life partner · choosing distance education · predisposition-life experience how your KYD set develops, matures, can it change · bullying resilience, coping mechanisms, mentors, etc · Childhood and adolescent development · family of origin issues · Covariances does your distance depend on the affinity that you have for your reference group · consequences, what do you have to give up to KYD, what is the factor multiplier calculus
 * personal space
 * identity management
 * role playing ·

 <span style="color: rgb(245, 5, 5)">Cultural distance Indicators

is that some cultural groups in some circumstances decide that they do not want to acquire the attributes of the majority culture.” Kleinfeld in, [|Argyris 1985 Ch. 6 p]. 162 (ebook file on my computer) · dimensions <span style="color: rgb(245, 5, 5)">Economic distance · Indicators · dimensions <span style="color: rgb(245, 5, 5)">Psychological distance · Indicators · appearance · language · dimensions <span style="color: rgb(248, 18, 18)"> Emotional distance emotional labour · Indicators · dimensions <span style="color: rgb(246, 19, 19)">Institutional distance Indicators
 * aboriginal cultures using colonial structures “The fundamental issue
 * the good and the bad
 * Hutterite communities set up separate school system to keep their distance from secular education. because of different values but also inferior quality. Kids get teased? Colony schools. Varying attitudes to education, some say not worth going past grade 8 other colonies value higher ed.
 * academic distance, the lofty ivory tower Nature
 * Israel and real danger of terrorist attack
 * Aparthied
 * segregation
 * reserve system
 * relocation camps, refugee camps,
 * negotiating distance
 * Reducing distance
 * Increasing distance
 * Maintaining distance
 * Closing the distance, removing the distance, erasing the distance
 * distance as a commodity. synonymous with space or room, leg room, elbow room, breathing room, growing room, leibenstraum, get out of the rat race
 * keeping an arms length
 * avoiding vendor lock-in.

· dimensions

<span style="color: rgb(246, 19, 19)">Changing concepts of distance · Indicators · KYD in a world gone flat, technology has enabled many strategies that allow people to maintain their distance from society, institutions, other online banking, business and industry, · in education face to face ed has issues, communicable diseases, terrorist threats, physical assaults, long commutes, deteriorating public transit, don't have to worry about personal hygiene. · keeping some distance in a schedule, if you have to get from work to class on a tight schedule you can't do it, so distance ed allows you to avoid a commute. · Business does this already when resources are spread thinly over distance they manage that through tech. · virtual office is a way for people to manage distance, ins · little girl with cancer therapy, could be in isolation but still participate by Skype. · Technology allows for the bridging of distance, bridges across cultural barriers, racial barrier, SES barriers · Used to be that you had to be technologically skilled and literate, but new technology eg video conferencing has allowed more advanced cultures to reach out while at the same time keeping people distant. · foreign aid, help them over there but keep them distant don't let them immigrate KYD. · Always on 24/7 e-workers, telecommuters this is a part of the changing notion of distance. You maybe physically distant but evermore accessibility to you employer or clients has reduced that distance to zero. · dimensions <span style="color: rgb(246, 19, 19)">Critical distance, (AKA analytical distance?) formal topic of sociological research.