SWITCHES interrupt & divert currents

 

READINGS:
You are encouraged to read ALL material but you are not required to.
Read what you can & need to.

     

January 9

Skim Blaxter et. al., How to Research.
Open University Press, 1996. ISBN: 0335194524 (pbk).

 
     

January 16

1. "On Tricky Ground:" Researching the Native in the Age of Uncertainty
Linda Tuhiwai Smith, pp. 85-108 in the Sage Handbook

2. Reconstructing Culture in Educational Research
Ray Mc Dermott and Herve Varenne, (2006) pp.3-31 in George Spindler and Lorie Hammond (Eds.) Innovations in Educational Ethnography. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

3. N. Denzin & Y. Lincoln, Introduction
Handbook of Qualitative Research, pp. 1-18.

4. J. Corbin & A. Strauss, Chapter 2
Basics of Qualitative Research, pp. 19-43.

5. You can also check out this overview of qualitative research methodologies, from a presentation given in another version of this course (Summer 2009).

The full powerpoint presentation this slide was taken from is available here.

 
     

January 23

The Acquisition of a Child by a Learning Disability
Ray McDermott, in Understanding Practice, Lave and Chaiklin (eds) pp269-305, Cambridge University Press, 1993.

 
     

January 30

1. Politics and Ethics in qualitative research
Maurice Punch, pp. 83-104 in Sage Handbook (op cit)

2. Fictions of Feminist Ethnography (chapter on betrayal)
Kamala Visweswaran

3. Can a Teacher Ever Know Too Much? Ethical Considerations of Practitioner Research with Students in Gangs
Katz, S. (2000), Educational Foundations, 14, pp. 5-22.

4. SFU ethics Review Form (http://www.sfu.ca/policies/research/index.htm)

5. A Comment on Disguised Observation in Sociology
K.T. Erikson, Social Problems, 14, 4 (Spring, 1967), pp. 366-373.

6. Periscopic Play: Re-positioning 'the field' in MMOG Studies.
N. Taylor (2008), Loading..., vol. 3.

 
     

February 6

1. Paradigms and Prejudice
Laboratory of Human Cognition (1997), Mind, Culture and Activity (M. Cole & Y. Engestrom, Eds.), pp. 100-116.

2. What's New Visually
Douglas Harper (2005), from the SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research.

 
     

Olympics (February 13-20)

TBD

 
     

March 6

1. Concepts of ecological validity: their differing Implications for comparative cognitive research,
Michael Cole, Lois Hood and Raymond P. McDermott, (eds.) 49-56 in Mind, Culture and Activity: Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 1997

2.  Coding procedures/Open coding (pp.57-74)
Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques, Anselm Strauss and Julia Corbin (Sage 1990)

3. Charnaz, Grounded Theory book, Ch. 3 (p. 42- )

 
     

BOOK REPORT SELECTIONS

Paul Willis (1977) Learning to labour
T.L. Taylor (2006) Play between worlds: Exploring on-line game culture
Shirley Brice-Heath (1984) Ways with words
Dorothy Smith (1987): The everyday world as problematic
Judith Whyte (1986) GIST: The story of a project
Richard Ekins: (1998) Male/Femaling
Peter Hoeg (1995) Borderliners
Alison Jones (1995) At school I have a chance
Erving Goffman (1961) Asylums
Laud Humphreys (1970) Tearoom trade
Malinowski (1922) Argonauts of the Western Pacific
H. Becker et al (1961) Boys in white

Or you may suggest an alternative qualitative study.