Denilson,
You asked for suggestions on how you might make your project more manageable
in terms of scope. You mentioned that you are:
"the prosecuting attorney responsible for overseeing the police force
(about 42,000 police) in the entire state. Furthermore, I manage a small
teaching institute and I am also a Professor of Penal Procedural Law. By
the way, I am taking a law MA/PhD degree. I have been a teacher for twenty
years: twelve years as a physics/mathematics teacher and eight years as a
law professor."
Couple of ideas: why not take a look at developing your case studies
among the group you work around every day--either at the small teaching
college or in the police force. Or look for applications around distance
learning in the law or math professor fields. It would seem that you
already have entry to several groups from which you could derive your
population for study.
Additionally, imbedded in your questions are a whole host of dimensions of
distance learning from which you might take one or two elements and just
work them as the focus of your study. The entirety of "Management" is
rather large and probably would be a great dissertation. By narrowing the
scope on the immediate research requirement, you might even have some of
the work for the larger project completed.
Warm regards,
Sandy Wells
--"Sandy Wells" <sjwells@earthlink.net>
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