group meeting report on Oct.14th‏

Dear Superwriters,

Sorry for the belated submission of report on two weeks ago, I will give a brief account on what we did on Oct.14th.

There are 7.5 members, Alam, Jessica Wan, mother-to-be Iris and her cute baby, Nicol, Jun, Lucia and Rina attend the meeting. We firstly shared our progress in the past week. Then Lucia shared with us her pilot study in 5 schooles including EBD(emotional behavior dissable) schools in Xiamen, China.

As Lucia introduced, most studens in EBD school are under-achievers, and they have some kind of emotional behavior dissabilities. They go to school to get used to the social enviornment.The academic atmosphere there is less oppressive, and more "nature".

We discussed some issues like how to handle the ethical issue when facing the EBD students, how to lessen the negative impact on participants, can we lie or not?

Iris shared her experience that sometimes, to get the reality, we may not expose our intention at the beginning ,but should tell the participants at the end. they may be more familiar with us and our research, and then they can understand and accept what we have done.

Lucia also focused on whether how many cases are enough in each school level. should she increase case amount to assure the research validity? if you have more idea or suggesions on this topic, please tell Lucia.

Wish everybody happy learning , good appetite and sweet dream everyday:)

Cheers,

Rina

Report on Superwriter meeting_Oct 21, 2008

Dear Superwriters,
Sorry for the belated submission of report on last meeting, for the ex-chairperson is 'killing' the deadline. So please allow me to give a brief account on what we did last Tuesday.There are 6.5 members, Alam, Jessica, mother-to-be Iris and her cute babe, Nicol, Jun, and Lucia attend the meeting, we firstly share our progress in the past week. Then Alam share with us part of his research from the cultural perspective, which is very refreshing and thought-provoking. Through his presentation, we have gained some knowledge about the cultural, custom and education situation in Bangladesh, which share some commonness with China in terms of the agricultural origin, the trajectory of developing towards a industrial/post-industrial society, traditional gender role of the women, the emphasis of education and so on, yet it also has its uniqueness. I hope some day we can arrange a tour to Alam's hometown, for fresh air, boundless farmland and, most attractively, tasty mango:)
Wish everybody a fruitful week!