the five credibility tests

The ‘Research Frame’: The Five Credibility Tests by Brad Haseman

1. That there is a clearly established problem which drives the study, usually made clear through a ‘research question’ or ‘an enthusiasm of practice’.
2. That, just as the research problem and its content are under scrutiny, so too will the process of research be scrutinised. It is necessary for the study to articulate its methodology convincingly and so make it available for scrutiny.
3. That the research undertaken is located within its field of enquiry and associated conceptual terrain.
4. That the knowledge claims made from the study be must be reported to others and demonstrate the benefit of the study in social, cultural, environmental or economic terms.
5. That what becomes known is made available for sustained and verifiable peer review.

— Brad Haseman (2007) TEXT, Vol 11 No 1 April 2007 https://www.textjournal.com.au/april07/haseman.htm

Thanks to Lee Miller and Bob Whalley for reminding me of this work.

gadamer and understanding as an event

Gadamer conceives our interaction with historical texts as dialogic, on the model of conversation. Understanding the performance means neither discovering its original meanings, seeing and hearing it as it was originally seen and heard, nor imposing our own meanings on it. ‘Understanding proves to be an event’, the emergent result of the conversation between ourselves and the performance, a conversation to which both sides are understood to contribute. ‘In this the interpreter’s own horizon is decisive’, writes Gadamer, and this is necessarily true, as the conversational event takes place in the present, against this horizon.

— Philip Auslander, Reactivation: Performance, Mediatization and the Present Moment, in: Chatzichristodoulou, M., Jefferies, J., Zerihan, R. (Eds.), Interfaces of Performance. Ashgate Publishing Limited, Surrey, pp. 81–94. This quote from pp.87-88.