Dear all,
First welcome Yong Lin and Wang Ge to join us!
Also, thanks Matthew for sitting with us for a while in his busy schedule as the start of this group was due to his idea!
At the beginning of this meeting, each of us reported our research topic and what we had done in the past week in a few sentences. I would like to highlight that Xiuli joined us after finishing her panel meeting and she would do presentation this afternoon (Friday) at 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.in Room 403, 4/F Runme Shaw Building. If you have time, let's go and support her!
Manla introduced her fascinating study language policy in Tibet in relevance with construction of Chinese national identity. She discussed how a negotiation of Power happened via the change of language policy in Tibet and how the policy impacted on the daily practice in schools. She used critical discourse analysis in her study.
Next Friday, Cheri will conduct guided reading on Foucault entitled with 'Undressing Foucault'. I put a few website concerned with Foucault if you are interested in knowing a bit more of this interesting man before joining our meeting next Friday:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/foucault/
http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-fouc.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault
http://www.michel-foucault.com/concepts/index.html
I will add this report and some other reference in our blog. I think Cheri will circulate some reading material to us in advance.
Enjoy your weekend & see you next week!
Best regards
Issa
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Jessica: Report of meeting-May 19
Hi everyone,
I write to report this Tuesday's meeting .
We had a big group discussion, Maggie's back from her pilot study, Lucia's back from data collection for a week, Shelley joined us, Cheri is interested in being an "observer" ...
In the first half of our meeting, people reported work that had been done last week. Maggie shared her experiences in her pilot study. She is trying to figure out a suitable data collection technique, maybe stimulated recall. Other people did some reading or writing last week.
In the second half, Shelley shared her study "Narrative inquiry into the Fuhexing Yingyu Rencai in 2000 Syllabus for undergraduate English major in China. It was good to hear a heated discussion of Shelley's study among group members.
Next meeting will be on 27th May (Wednesday). Manla is going to share her study. The meeting after next will be on 5th June. Cheri is going to share with us Foucult's theory. Her will bring one of her favorite papers (or send us the soft version) so that we can learn that together. Cheri suggested us to think about the following questions before we come to the meeting:
1)why do we need a theoretical framework in our study? Why do we want to do the research we are now doing?
2) Why do we use theories in our research? e.g., why do we use critical theories?
3)Why do we need to reflect on our study and how to do this?
The coming meetings sound very interesting. Please don't miss the opportunities to learn and share. Hope to see you then.
Best regards,
Jessica
I write to report this Tuesday's meeting .
We had a big group discussion, Maggie's back from her pilot study, Lucia's back from data collection for a week, Shelley joined us, Cheri is interested in being an "observer" ...
In the first half of our meeting, people reported work that had been done last week. Maggie shared her experiences in her pilot study. She is trying to figure out a suitable data collection technique, maybe stimulated recall. Other people did some reading or writing last week.
In the second half, Shelley shared her study "Narrative inquiry into the Fuhexing Yingyu Rencai in 2000 Syllabus for undergraduate English major in China. It was good to hear a heated discussion of Shelley's study among group members.
Next meeting will be on 27th May (Wednesday). Manla is going to share her study. The meeting after next will be on 5th June. Cheri is going to share with us Foucult's theory. Her will bring one of her favorite papers (or send us the soft version) so that we can learn that together. Cheri suggested us to think about the following questions before we come to the meeting:
1)why do we need a theoretical framework in our study? Why do we want to do the research we are now doing?
2) Why do we use theories in our research? e.g., why do we use critical theories?
3)Why do we need to reflect on our study and how to do this?
The coming meetings sound very interesting. Please don't miss the opportunities to learn and share. Hope to see you then.
Best regards,
Jessica
2009年5月18日星期一
12May09 Meeting report
This week we had Amanda Zhang who shared with us her research on using narrative inquiry approach, to investigate English teachers' professional identities in mainland China.
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It is a very interesting discussion, especially when we discussed about differences between narrative inquiry and narrative-style oral history interview.
If some of you are interested in narrative inquiry and its analysis, you may read the paper article as below:
Connelly, F. M., Clandinin, D. J., & He, M. F. (1997). Teachers'personal practical knowledge on the professional knowledge landscape. Teaching and Teacher Education, 13(7), 665-674.
2009年5月18日 上午12:31
Can I say that one of the difference between narrative inquiry and ethnography (I know they are not under the same category but they both use method like in-depth interview, observation etc.) is that the former dealing more with the retrospective data and the latter more concentrate on the present life?
2009年5月19日 下午9:13