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