Hi Alice
You have raised some really good points.....
I am using case study as an approach to and treatment of data, rather than as a methdology.
Oh, also, one tricky thing about being in an international forum - and a multi-disciplinary one - is…
hi ann,
this is by way of reply to your most recent post today... i've also found some great articles addressing researcher positioning and the power dynamics between researchers and participants... some of this hinges on critiques of the 'insider'…
Hope this wirting went well, or is still, going well for you.
I am battling the literature review for ym thesis- feeling overwhelemd by the decisions about what to include, what to exclude, how to synthesise diverse appraoches to actvism in the aca…
Hi Barbara
The abstract is available if you google the title - its in the Volume 2, Issue 3, Pages 116-127 (July 2009) of "Disability and Health Journal".
and i would add that it can be very helpful to become familiar with critical theory, as this epistemology informs a critical ethnographic methodology. authors like habermas, mezirow, kincheloe spring to mind. my research perspective brings together…
apparently, it's all about story-telling... i've been encouraged to develop my (creative) writing skills as much as my academic research skills in order to complete this ethnographic adventure doubling as a thesis.
why thank you ann:-) my approach is the product of an undergrad in post-structuralist theory (which i didn't think was vocational at the time), a postgrad in education for social change and cutting my teeth as an activist/practitioner in feminist wo…
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